Pete Drinks

As I may have mentioned before, I’m quite a fan of the Bristol Beer Factory – I even included their magnificent Southville Hop in last year’s Golden Pint Awards. So when I came across today’s beer in Utobeer there really wasn’t any way to resist. This is their Creme Brulee Stout, a definite monster at [read more]

The Redchurch Brewery was founded in East London back in 2011 and I hope it doesn’t give too much away to say that they’ve become one of my favourite breweries. Not only do they make some wonderfully tasty beer – more on that in a moment – but their overall design is a thing of [read more]

A return to Bewley’s this week – the Irish tea and coffee importers whose Panama we’ve featured before. Although based in Ireland, the coffee is fairly widely available in the UK as well. This is the Araku India coffee, grown in the Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh. Unlike some of their range, it’s nice to [read more]

Tiny Rebel are a Newport microbrewery set up in 2012. Although based in Wales, their beers seem to be quite widely available in the ‘craftier’ beer shops in London. In addition to their core range, they also produce one-off beers in their “Tiny Batch Editions” and I’m pleased to see that a significant chunk of [read more]

Aromo Coffee are a company that primarily focus on producing coffee in ‘pods’ for those fancy coffee machines. There seems to be quite a range of different shaped pods for various machines, and by the looks of it they have the whole range covered. I’ll be honest – I don’t understand the point of those [read more]

Bettys are perhaps better known for their Tea Rooms, and for the fact that they own Taylors of Harrogate. However, they have a separate online presence and even have their own range of coffees, and they were kind enough to send a sample my way. This is their Peruvian Pangoa, a medium-dark roasted coffee from [read more]