Pete Drinks

On a recent business trip to Boston, the lovely Kavey kindly brought me back some local(ish) beer. The Harpoon Brewery is based in Boston itself, although it also owns a second site up in Vermont. They appear to have quite an impressive range, but understandably it wasn’t possible to fit more than a couple of [read more]

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]