Posts Tagged ‘beer’
Beer in Málaga
Beer in Málaga There are a number of craft beer bars in the centre of Málaga, but in the interest of avoiding the crowds, we’re holidaying a couple of miles away in Pedregalejo. We could make the trip in, but … oh, look – there’s a bar just half a mile down the road from us.…
Read MoreSt Peter’s The Saints Whisky Beer
St Peter’s The Saints Whisky Beer (500ml bottle, 4.8% ABV) Given the similarities between beer and whisky (both are made with fermented barley) it’s surprising that more breweries haven’t tried mixing the two. Enter St Peter’s brewery and The Saints, which includes a measure of whisky from St George’s distillery in Norfolk, one of England’s…
Read MoreTrapped in Amber
Trapped in Amber (440ml, 3.2% ABV) Staggeringly Good Table beer, or small beer, used to be a very fashionable thing – a beverage with such low alcohol you could drink the stuff all day, even feed it to your kids! Of course, people didn’t need much persuading, given how disease-ridden Britain’s water supply was at the time. Trapped…
Read MoreBlack Buzzard
Black Buzzard (500ml, 5.8% ABV) Leighton Buzzard I love English place names. From the energetic (Westward Ho!, complete with its exclamation mark) to the oxymoronic (Lower Upham), England is full of settlements both historic and strange. Leighton Buzzard has always struck me as an one of these. How many other town names include a bird of prey? The…
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Siren Craft – I Love You Honey Bunny (330ml, 6.3% ABV) For a brewery that’s only existed since 2012, Siren Craft of Berkshire have done pretty well for themselves. Named the best brewery in England, and one of the best in the world, they’ve not rested on their laurels either, with a bewildering array of…
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Stewart Brewing St Giles (330ml, 5.0% ABV) Brewing in Loanhead, just south of Edinburgh, Stewart Brewing have been going from strength to strength since 2004, and now employ 25 people. If you find yourself in the vicinity of Edinburgh with nothing else to do, you can visit their taproom, or even brew your own beer…
Read MoreAndwell Sovereign
Andwell Sovereign (330ml, 9.0% ABV) A huge Union Jack in the shape of a postage stamp. The name ‘Sovereign’. A beer made in honour of the Queen of England’s 90th birthday. Yes, Andwell’s Sovereign is a paeon to patriotism. So, what style is it? An English bitter, perhaps, or a London porter? Maybe one of…
Read MoreHoptimus Prime 6.5% ABV)
Hoptimus Prime (330ml, 6.5% ABV) As well as a stable of four regular beers, Fallen Acorn are also brew up experiments as part of their ‘Nutty’ range, which currently consists of no fewer than eight beers. Some of these are pretty wild (fancy a tangerine infused weissbier or a rye beer made with Rooibos tea?).…
Read MoreBristol Beer Factory Milk Stout
Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout (500ml, 4.5% ABV) I have to confess, the idea of a factory producing beer goes against my idea of what a small brewery should be doing. Perhaps the Bristol Beer Factory were thinking less ‘commercial beverage giant’ and more ‘Willy Wonka’. Their Milk Stout would certainly seem to suggest it.…
Read MoreWeird Beard Mariana Trench
Weird Beard Mariana Trench (330ml, 5.3% ABV) Beer is exploding. Not in that “Who shook up my bottle of stout?” kind of way, but in the number of people who are brewing it. In 2012 there were 24 breweries in London. Four short years later, the number has more than tripled, and the Weird Beard…
Read MoreWhat’s new for February!
Beer, what is it good for? Absolutely everything! We’re kicking of 2016 in style with a brand spanking new website and some new beer! So what’s on the menu for February? Well to start we’ve just taken a delivery from Wiggle Valley brewery, a small microbrewery tucked away down a farm lane on the edge of the village…
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