The best IPA in Britain
This is, in truth, a post I’ve wanted to write for a long while. A list – my list – of the best IPA’s in Britain. The problem is, every time I sit down and riffle through the selection of names, there are more to consider. Another one arrives seemingly every week. The demand for ...
Binge drinking, crafted
Sooner or later, every beer fan will fall into the situation I found myself in last Thursday at Islington’s Craft Beer Company. I say fall – more likely they will meticulously plan to be there rather than stumble across it, but sometimes these things do come around purely by chance. I’m talking, of course, about ...
BeerCast #71 – Hidden Meanings
BeerCast #71 – Hidden Meanings. Podcast time again, and our panel of three take on four beers that have unusual reasons behind the name. Richard, Shovels and Grooben debate various highbrow literary references, and the Oscar-winning films of Clint Eastwood…
1. Thornbridge Kill Your Darlings (5.0%)
2. York Brewery Micklegate (6.1%)
3. Stewart Brewing Radical Road (6.4%)
4. Tempest Unforgiven (5.4%)
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Lagerboy Speaks – Thornbridge Kill Your Darlings
Lagerboy hasn’t had a run-out for a while, but as the days are starting to lengthen and the rain that plunges from the grey Scottish clouds becomes a tad warmer – it’s time to stop chewing those noble hop pellets and get with the liquid. The first tempter to pass his cage hails from the ...
Best new beers of 2011…Thornbridge Evenlode
Yesterday we announced the first of our pick of the best British beers launched in 2011 – Sharp’s Monsieur Rock (5.2%). Today we bring you our second (these are roughly in order of release). A beer we tasted at FyneFest in early June – but not from Argyll’s champion brewer – it was merely a ...
BeerCast #64 – Big BeerCast
BeerCast #64 – Big BeerCast. On the 1st of October 2011, the UK Treasury increased duty on all beer over 7.5%. Listen to this podcast to find out why that’s a terrible idea, and might have serious implications for British brewing. We also sample four of the very best strong ales this country has to offer as we go, and manage to reveal the surprising history behind Bluetooth, why coffee is the new drug of choice, and how to find a greyhound on Orkney. The panel today – Richard, Grooben and Shovels.
1. Sinclair Orkney Skullsplitter (8.5%)
2. Traquair House Jacobite Ale (8.0%)
3. Thornbridge St Petersburg (7.7%)
4. BrewDog Abstrakt AB:06 (11.2%)
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