Beer Posts

Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

This week's review is something of a last minute rush, as I left everything to the last minute (as usual!) and then found myself in an excellent pub instead of at home with my beer supply. Happily, The Bull has a wonderful beer list, including plenty of tasty monsters. And so, with apologies to ...

Stout & Salty Roasted Peanuts Ice Cream - AKA Beer & Nuts Ice Cream

A guest post from my wife Kavey, author of Kavey Eats. As a novice ice cream maker, it's probably not that wise to start inventing completely new ice creams. But having launched a new ice cream challenge on my blog and set the theme for the first month to custard-based ice creams, I really wanted to do ...

Barbar & Barbar Bok

What's better than a monster Belgian beer? Two Belgian beers, obviously! This week I have a pair of beers from Brasserie Lefebvre, a family brewery in Quenast which is currently in it's sixth generation. They have quite a selection of big beers in their traditionally Belgian range and the bottles I have are both honey ...

AG2 – Christmas Ale

Although my first attempt at a 'proper' all-grain home brewed beer wasn't perfect, I was inspired and encouraged by how well it came out. The extra work – mashing and the longer boil – really hadn't made things any harder, just more long winded. My next beer had to be something dark and festive, ...

Duvel

Since I started this series, it's become a bit of an obsession of mine. Every time I walk into a shop that sells beer I find myself scouring the shelves looking for any offering that crosses that magical 7.5% ABV barrier. Specialist beer shops are definitely my Achilles' Heel but just occasionally I ...

Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

After missing last week's Monster Beer due to the curse of a head cold I wanted to find something a bit special to get back on course, so I dug to the very back of my cupboard and came out with a deliciously huge bottle from the Great Divide Brewing Company of Colorado. As ...

AG1 – Bitter and Twisted

If I'm honest, I found the prospect of my first 'proper' homebrew rather daunting. I was convinced I'd screw it up somehow, so I decided to buy an all grain kit from Barley Bottom (sadly no longer in operation). This is a great idea for the nervous first timer – they have already ...

All Grain Brewing

In a very limited sense, I have dabbled in homebrew for a long time; my first experience was at university. I bought one of those homebrew bags from Boots, which was basically a 20 litre sack prefilled with – well, I don't know what, some sort of kit goo I suppose. You just ...

Hogs Back A Over T

As regular readers may remember, Hogs Back have been the subject of a previous Brewery Tour-At-Home but that didn't include this particular beer – the strongest of their range. This is A Over T, a 9.0% Extra Strong Ale. The name obviously stands for Aroma Over Tongham (the village in which Hogs Back are ...

J.W. Lees Moonraker

So, after last week's rather special but also rather hard to obtain beer, it seemed right to go to the other extreme. While it's hard to find any strong beer in supermarkets, a visit to my local Morrisons did turn up one candidate. This is Moonraker, which just about qualifies at 7.5% ABV. ...