Beer Posts

Meantime Brewing Company Tour

Meantime, based in Greenwich, have been on my list of places to visit for a lot longer than I've been blogging. The first of the new wave of London breweries, they've been in operation since 2000 and moved to their current site ten years later. In common with many London breweries, they're based in ...

Wooden Hand Brewery Tour-At-Home

I always make it a mission to hunt down local beer when I'm travelling, and our trip down to Cornwall last year was no exception. As well as managing to pop into, among others, Harbour Brewing, I also picked up some bottles to enjoy back home. This is the range from Wooden Hand Brewery (now ...

Shepherd Neame Generation Ale 2011

I have a soft spot for Shepherd Neame; being a Kentish Man I'm fairly sure that the first beer I ever ordered by name (rather than asking for "bitter", or to be honest back in those days "cider") was Spitfire. They may not have a reputation for bleeding edge craft beers dripping with American hops ...

Batemans 2012 Vintage Ale

The term 'Vintage Ale' always makes me think of Fuller's, who have been producing their annual Vintage Ales for many years now. Batemans have recently joined the party with their 2012 Vintage Ale, a limited release that I believe only appeared in Aldi stores. It's a slightly murky, deep copper colour in the glass, ...

Porterhouse Celebration Stout

Porterhouse started life as a brewpub in Dublin back in 1996, and since then have added more bars in Ireland, and have expanded overseas with bars in London and even New York. All their beer is still brewed in Dublin, and they describe themselves as "Ireland's largest independent Irish Brewery". This is their Celebration ...

Thornbridge Hall Evenlode Brown Porter

Thornbridge are a brewery better known for their big hop beasties, but in addition to the fairly widely available beers like Jaipur and Kipling they also have their "Thornbridge Hall" range; beers with very different branding that are a little bit different. This is their Evenlode Brown Porter, which is matured on blackberries. A very ...

Brewdog Dead Pony Club

When you're pulling together a dozen interesting 'cupboard' beers, it's rather hard to resist including something from certain breweries. This is Brewdog's Dead Pony Club, continuing their habit of giving their beers even sillier names than everyone else in an industry that, let's face it, isn't great with product names to start with. It's a ...

Fuller's Golden Pride

It's taken me a long time to learn to love Fuller's beer. The pub at the top of our road is a Fuller's pub and when we first moved in nearly two decades ago, I felt it was important to check it out. Back then, they didn't have the best landlord and I ...

Tullibardine 1488 Whisky Beer

Tullibardine is actually a distillery in the Highlands, but also produces a range of ales using the same water and barley that goes into their whisky in partnership with Black Wolf Brewery. This is their 1488 Whisky Beer (it's an elderly bottle, and the beer later appears to be called 1488 Whisky Ale - ...

Maui La Perouse White

Maui Brewing Co are one of those American breweries that seem to show up in a lot of craft beer places in the UK – often, as in this case, in can form. This is their La Perouse White, a Belgian-style wheat beer. It certainly looks the part, a pale straw colour with ...