Gutter Slab – for the Hopheads
Last month when we visited the Scottish Beer Festival at the Assembly Rooms in our home city we found a great deal of things we liked, both new and old. One of the newer discoveries was a pale bitter called Peden’s Cove from the Windie Goat Brewery in Failford, Ayrshire. Tucked away in the far […]
Everyone’s a critic
We were in Doctors pub on Forrest Road last week for BeerCaster John’s birthday – and I think he did drink beer at some point on his journey around the world of booze.* Someone spotted this opportunistic bit of graffiti on a poster advertising pitchers of Fosters lager. Hard to argue, really. Needless to say […]
BeerCast #18 – Sakura Beers
BeerCast #18 – Sakura Beers. Our second Japanese BeerCast follows the same pattern as the first, after one of our panellists returns from the Far East with a clinking suitcase. It was Grooben who was lucky enough to visit Japan this time, so sharing the spoils of his trip are Richard, Shovels and Andy. Also today we discuss trains, seal-inspired doomsday cults, and we break out our little men…
1. Sapporo Premium Lager (4.7%)
2. Landbeer Kaori No Yutakana (5.0%)
3. Kyoto Machiya Kölnisch (5.0%)
4. Ishikawa Tama no Meguri (5.5%)
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Lagerboy Speaks – Greene King St Edmund’s Ale
Suffolk behemoths Greene King are primarily known for their IPA, ubiquitous in the south of England but rarely seen up here. But they have plenty of other beers in their portfolio, many obtained via aggressive takeovers of rival brewers. Because of this they are now the largest solely British-owned producer in the UK. To my […]
Scottish Beer Festival 2008
In our recent preview of the 2008 Scottish Real Ale Festival I wrote that we were all looking forward to trying some new things, as it’s really the main reason for going along. Last year’s festival (the review of which is here) was something of an eye-opener to the BeerCast – we’d only just started […]
BeerCast #17 – North Yorkshire
BeerCast #17 – North Yorkshire. Richard and Grooben have had hometown podcasts, and now it’s the turn of Shovels. Hailing from near York, he guides us through four beers from the local area in the company of Richard and the returning Hopmeister Tom. It’s brown malty ales all round as we head to the gateway to the Dales…
1. Copper Dragon Challenger IPA (4.8%)
2. Theakston XB (4.5%)
3. Black Sheep Ale (4.4%)
4. Suddaby’s Auld Bob (6.0%)
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