My second blog of the week celebrating Sheffield Beer Week, and this time I sat down with my friend Tom to sample some beers from some of the finest Sheffield breweries! This blog is part 1 featuring the first three, stay tuned for Part 2 coming up later this week! Grafter - Abbeydale / Devonshire … Continue reading Sampling Sheffield’s Finest (Part 1)
A Northern special edition of HCBC featuring only northern based breweries!
I sit down with Mark from Crosspool Ale Makers Society to talk all things beer and brewing!
(Finally) I've managed to write up the results from HCBC 4, read on for some great beers!
Welcome back to Part 2 of my reviews of Northern Monk's Trilogy MMXVII featuring the second beer from the trilogy - Yeast. To read about the first one, Malt, see Part 1 here. Yeast - Verdant Collaboration For the second beer in the trilogy we have a Sour IPA brewed in collaboration with Verdant. This … Continue reading The Trilogy MMXVIII – Part 2
(Finally) I've managed to write up the results from HCBC 4, read on for some great beers!
Welcome back after what I hope was a great Christmas for all of you, to the first in my latest set of blogs, this time dedicated to Northern Monk's 2018 Trilogy release! Every year they release a Trilogy that tries to showcase the most basic building blocks of craft beer. Every year they choose a … Continue reading The Trilogy MMXVIII – Part 1
A short blog on a collaboration beer from Five Towns Brewery and Beer Central. It won a champion beer award at Salford Beer Festival, let's see if it deserves it! Billed as a 'Breakfast Stout' and coming in at 9%, I was prepared for quite a big hitter. The blurb mentions blueberries, coffee and a … Continue reading Candidate Breakfast Stout
The final chapter in a series of 3 mini blogs (Part 1 and Part 2) is here, lets take a look at the final offering from Cerveses La Pirata! The last beer to be sampled was Block Tovarisch , a 13% Russian Imperial Stout brewed as a collab with Laugar Brewery. Very different to the other three … Continue reading Spotlight on… Cerveses La Pirata Brewery (Part 3)
Continuing on from Part 1 of this series of mini blogs featuring beers from Cerveses La Pirate, we have two stronger beers including a NEIPA and an Imperial IPA! First off is Panòptic, a New England IPA. Again, I really liked the bottle design and when you read the translation of its description on Untappd, it definitely continues … Continue reading Spotlight on… Cerveses La Pirata Brewery (Part 2)
Hutch's Craft Beer Club 