Beer Reviews

Beer: A refreshing and versatile beverage brewed from malted grains, hops, water, and yeast, offering a diverse range of flavours and styles.

Or, to put it another way, an endless opportunity to explore new beers and breweries!

Cheers to great beer!

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Badger Ales Brewery Tour-At-Home

Brewery:	Badger

Badger Ales or, as they're more properly known Hall & Woodhouse, is one of the oldest breweries in the UK. Founded in 1777, they're certainly in the top five preceded only by the likes of Shepherd Neame (officially 1698 but likely much earlier), Samuel Smith (1758) and Young's (whose Ram Brewery probably dates as far ...

Gweilo Beer Tour At Home

Brewery:	Gweilo

Whenever I'm travelling, I always eager to hunt out local beers. It seems odd to fly across oceans to foreign parts, only to seek out something familiar to drink. Not, of course, that other countries' local beers are always unfamiliar; Japan's national beers - Asahi and, to a lesser extent, Kirin & Sapporo - ...

Palmers Brewery Tour-At-Home

Brewery:	Palmers

Today's Tour is another Dorset brewery, but at the other end of the brewing spectrum from our previous brewery in the county, 8 Arch. Beer has been brewed on the Palmers Bridport site since 1794, although it didn't take on the Palmer name until the 19th Century. Today it is run by the 4th generation ...

8 Arch Brewing Company Brewery Tour-At-Home

Brewery:	8 Arch Brewing

It's always good when a long weekend in the country involves enough spare time to hit a few local breweries. After our visit to Dorset earlier this year courtesy of holidaycottages.co.uk I returned with a decent haul of beers from the county, including a set from a new (to me) brewery, 8 Arch Brewing. 8 Arch ...

8 Arch Brewing Company Brewery Tour-At-Home

Aldi's Great British Brewing Company

A few years ago, there was rumbling in the world of whisky that perhaps something should be done about some bottlers - especially supermarkets - constantly inventing fictional Glens to use on their own-brand whisky. Earlier this year, the problem re-surfaced when it emerged that Tesco had invented a bunch of farms for some ...

Minoh Brewery Mini Tour-At-Home

Brewery:	Minoh Brewery

Although I usually try to sample the whole of a brewery's range in these things, sometimes that's not possible. I've picked up these bottles on the road a little way from Minoh's home in Osaka, so I've only been able to get hold of what appears to be about half of their beers. I ...

Toast Ale

Brewery:	Hackney Brewery
Abv:	5.0%

Food waste is an undeniable issue; 2012 figures from WRAP (I can't see any newer numbers) show that UK households threw away 7 million tons of food waste. That's 260 kg per household, which is so high as to be almost unbelievable. Of course, as always with statistics there is more to the ...

Redchurch Great Eastern IPA

Brewery:	Redchurch
Abv:	7.4%
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I knew I wanted to end this little collection of beers with something spectacular, so it was with considerable pleasure that I found a couple of bottles of Redchurch lurking in the back of the cupboard. I've been a fan of their beers - and today's in particular - for a long time. They've featured ...

Owd Rodger

Brewery:	Marston's
Abv:	7.4%
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Marston's Brewery was (I think) the first brewery I ever toured, even it was by accident (we broke down in Burton and had some time to kill). Although they're not exactly a trendy company, they do own a lot of solid brands including Banks's and Brakspear and are (so Wikipedia tells me) the world's ...

Humpty Dumpty 15

Brewery:	Humpty Dumpty
Abv:	9.0%
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Humpty Dumpty are a Norfolk brewery and I'm ashamed to say that's about the sum of my knowledge. I've not come across their beers making it all the way down here to London, although a quick glance at their Christmas beer pumpclips do make me wonder if I've seen them on Pump Clip Parade. (I'm ...