Beer Posts

Suntory The Premium Malt's

When you find yourself in a Tokyo hotel, you can't help exploring. It turns out that there's a vending machine just down the hallway, which serves surprisingly cheap beer. Suntory is a name I associate more with whisky than beer, but I suppose the basic product (pre distillation at least) is very similar. So, ...

AG6 – Hop Harvest

This year, there seems to have been an explosion in making 'green hop beers' – just about every brewery you look at seems to be making a special beer with the first hops of the season, straight from the bine. Having planted my first hop plant this spring, I wasn't really expecting to ...

Hop Harvest Time

Hops are pretty important things in the world of beer (although that hasn't always been the case). They're so important I've even gone to the extent of planting my own in the garden this year. As we approached the end of summer and I was looking at my hop-laden plant, a part of me ...

AG5 – #IPADay

On previous occasions, I've started my brewdays with a vision of the beer I was trying to create. They haven't always turned out to plan, but I have at least had something specific in mind. This brew was something of an exception. All I'd decided on was something slightly autumnal, and that it would ...

St Bernardus

It's been a while since I did a Monster Beer, so I thought I'd make it a special one. Instead of a single beer, here we have a collection of four from the Belgian St Bernardus brewery. St. Bernardus was founded in 1946, originally to brew the St Sixtus range of beers for the ...

Wild Beer Tour

On the journey back from our Cornwall tour back in June, we paused overnight in Bristol. While there we were lucky enough to catch up with Brett Ellis, of the newly formed Wild Beer Company. They're so new, in fact, that the brewery is still in the process of being built a little down ...

Bottling Blues

I tend to bottle all my homebrew beer, for the simple reason that as the only member of our household that actually likes beer it's hard to drink an entire cask before the beer goes off. The massive downside of this is that bottling beer is by far the most tedious part of ...

The Session #66: The One Beer to Rule Them All

I've been meaning to participate in The Sessions for a long time, and this month's topic seems to be custom made for my inner brewer. Hosted by DrinkDrank, the question is simply this - what if you were to design the perfect brew? The "perfect beer for you, personally" is a tough question to ...

Bacon-Wrapped Meatloaf with a Stout & Honey Glaze

A recipe guest post from my wife Kavey, who blogs at Kavey Eats. We eat first with our eyes, so it's no surprise that I've pinned more food images to my Pinterest boards than any others. One of the recipes that caught my eye was this Guinness & Cheddar Meatloaf from The Galley Gourmet blog. ...

Hardknott Colonial Mayhem

I know that Hardknott beers tend to show up quite often here, but the thing is they make a lot of monsters, and they're so very very hard to resist when I see them in shops. So, essentially, it's their fault and not mine. Here we have Colonial Mayhem, an 8.1% ABV "colonial ...