I’d almost forgotten about this blog, it’s been so long since I thought about writing a post that it was never really in my mind. I’ve been keeping most of my beer related adventures documented in Instagram stories, on Twitter, sometimes Facebook and more often than not just in conversations with people, which are all … Continue reading Where have you been all this time?…
I’d never been to Paris before, and I didn’t really have a great amount of knowledge of the craft beer scene in Paris at all, I had none! So when I was asked to take a few days in Paris for work part of what I wanted to do was understand what the Paris beer … Continue reading Craft Beer in Paris
The annual Prototype series by BrewDog is becoming a festive ritual for me. I always try to set aside an evening to enjoy the 3 or 4 (used to be 3, is now generally 4) new offerings and I’ve been blown away in the past by Jack Hammer, Cocoa Psycho (both from 2012), Brixton Porter & … Continue reading The BrewDog 2015 Prototype Series | A Review
The International Rainbow Project began life in 2013 when 7 UK based breweries got together and decided to randomly assign each brewery with a colour of the rainbow, the idea then being that each would brew a beer based on that colour. The project proved popular and in 2014 it was expanded into a collaboration … Continue reading The International Rainbow Project 2015 | A Review
| The Brewery | The Cairngorm Brewery is situated within the boundaries of The Cairngorm National Park in the busy tourist town of Aviemore | http://www.visitaviemore.com | and began production of real ale back in 1997. It was originally called the Aviemore Brewery, but when the park was granted National Park status the brewery was quick … Continue reading The Cairngorm Brewery | Tour & Tasting Session
Beavertown are fast becoming one of my favourite breweries and I am always on the look-out for more of their beers to drink. Over the past few weeks I’ve been able to grab a couple of their more limited releases so thought I’d note down my thoughts on each of those here. They do not … Continue reading 3 Beavertown beers | Bloody ‘Ell, Quelle & Earl Phantom
A summary of my recent BrewDog tastings from the 8th Anniversary Imperial Stout through to the new prototype citrus IPA. Dog D | BrewDog This 8th Anniversary imperial stout is the latest in the line of fantastic annual releases. Coming in at 16.1%abv this is a real heavyweight stout! The nose is chock full of … Continue reading A few BrewDog beer reviews | Hop Fiction, Elvis Juice, #MashTag ’15, Dog D & Black Tokyo Horizon
I’ve really enjoyed the various BrewDog showcase series over the past few years, including IPA is Dead 2013 & 2014, Unleash the Yeast & the Russian Doll series. It’s always a bit of fun to go through the beers in the series and compare each one to see how one different aspect, the hops in … Continue reading IPA is Dead 2015 | BrewDog
The past weekend was a long weekend for me, having managed to take a couple of days off work to indulge in a bit of life maintenance (clearing out the garage, power washing slabs etc…all things that equal zero fun) so I decided to indulge in some new beers to carry me through. I had a … Continue reading Weekend Beer Review | Little Ingrid, Yellow Belly, A Restorative Beverage, Marmalade on Rye, Pinner & some Steam Beer
Having been invited to a craft beer appreciating friend’s house for catch up and some beer related chat over the weekend I jumped at the opportunity to do a mini beer tasting across a few different styles of beer. After a visit to Great Grog Bottle Shop (http://www.greatgrogshop.co.uk) in Edinburgh I managed to pick up … Continue reading Weekend Beer Review | A lager, a pale ale, a sour and two porters
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