BeerCast #20 – White Rose Beers
BeerCast #20 – White Rose Beers. Shovels has already had a Yorkshire special, but as we’ve had two for the North West we had to have another – purely for the sake of balance. Our twentieth podcast also features Richard, MrB and the returning John. Big thanks to Faye at the Daleside brewery for the samples.
1. York Yorkshire Terrier (4.2%)
2. York Centurion Ghost Ale (5.4%)
3. Daleside Porter (4.4%)
4. Daleside Chocolate Stout (4.0%)
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Halfway to Orkney
The other Friday we ventured out into a muggy Edinburgh night to celebrate the famous festival. Not the Fringe, or the International, but the Halfway House’s Beer Festival. Each week in August the smallest and friendliest pub in Edinburgh™ showcases a different Scottish brewer and blankets the hand pumps with their offerings. For the final […]
The BeerCast needs you!
We’re currently putting together our second BeerCast Edinburgh pub guide, a definitive list of half a dozen or so great Edinburgh boozers. Neatly timed to co-incide with the end of the Festival, we have a few in mind already – but to any of our readers who are familiar with the Athens of the North, […]
How the other half live…
We like to think of ourselves at the BeerCast as being beyond casual stereotyping – but when you deal with ‘real ale’ it can be very hard to avoid. Beer enthusiasts tend to be of a certain demographic, which is why beer festivals can be enlightening when the occasional non-beardy person wanders in. Admittedly, most […]
BeerCast #19 – Golden Summer
BeerCast #19 – Golden Summer. Despite the incessant rain, summer is here in Scotland, so we celebrate by sampling four Golden Ales. Devised in the 1980’s to tempt lager drinkers to more interesting things, they are classically refreshing and easy to drink. Slapping on the shorts and shades are Richard, Shovels and Grooben. Shovels would like to apologise for finding the Suffolk town of Bungay so amusing…
1. Wagtail King Tut (4.0%)
2. Badger Golden Glory (4.5%)
3. St Peter’s Golden Ale (4.7%)
4. Hop Back Summer Lightning (5.0%)
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Lagerboy Speaks – Monteith’s New Zealand Lager
‘All beer is good. Some beer is better…’ is a great philosophy for a brewer – and maybe for a beer website too, come to that (although I would hesitate to describe something like Bud Light as good). But that particular saying comes from motto-happy Monteith’s, who also describe themselves as ‘The home of craft […]
