Beer Posts

Bristol Beer Factory Southville Hop

With so many beers in the world, it's sometimes easy to lose touch with an old favourite. That's especially true if it's from a different part of the country and so rarely shows up in local bars and shops; even when buying online it's too tempting to pick new and exciting beers, rather ...

Shepherd Neame Barley Wine

Quite a while ago the lovely folks at Shepherd Neame sent me a bottle of their Barley Wine. As they mentioned that it would probably age quite nicely, I stuck it in the back of the cupboard and forgot all about it. A quick search suggests that was back in summer 2014 - ...

London Brewing Samson's Riddle

I'm very lucky to have a fantastic brewery withing walking distance of my house, in the form of the London Brewing Company. I've been a fan of their beers for years, so when I started thinking about a Christmas Day beer I pretty much knew it would be a growler from them. Up ...

Buying Beer Online: Flavourly

The growing trendiness of craft beer continues to bring more and more beer retailers online. There's an interesting range of models at play, from the traditional online shop where you can pick and choose from the beers in their warehouse, through portals which pass your order directly to the breweries to fulfill, and on ...

Bedlam Brewery Tour-At-Home

Bedlam Brewery is based in Sussex which means they are not named after London's infamous Bedlam (Bethlem Royal) Hospital. Instead, the name comes from an ancient Roman road which runs close to the barn in which the brewery was founded, in 2012. Since then, the brewery has grown at an enviable pace and this year ...

Anspach & Hobday Tour-At-Home

Anspach & Hobday have been on my 'to try' list for a long time, but somehow they never ended up in my basket when restocking my cupboard. This is the slight downside to the current explosion of new breweries - it's impossible to keep up with them all! We ended up visiting them by ...

Moor Beer: Fusion, 2012 Vintage

It’s been a while since I dug into my Monster Beer fridge, and this seems to be the perfect choice to get back into the swing of things – an 8% ABV barrel-aged Old Ale, in an alarming generous 660ml bottle. Fusion is an Old Ale which is aged in barrels from the ...

Samuel Adams Rebel IPA

It only seems right to be drinking something American on their Independence Day, and happily Shepherd Neame have provided an ideal beer in the form of their latest import from Samuel Adams. Rebel IPA is a 6.5% all-American IPA; fairly mid-range in terms of strength. It's a pale copper ale, with little in the ...

Shepherd Neame 1215 Ale

Shepherd Neame is a brewery that loves history, so it's perhaps not surprising that they are celebrating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta with a special beer. In preparation for the approaching anniversary, the Magna Carta has been talked about ad nauseam lately, although more in abstract that in any great detail - for ...

AG14 - Pete's Porter

Having got pretty comfortable with my Coffee Stout (which after much soul-searching I've started calling a Coffee Porter instead), I decided that I should really try and produce a 'natural' porter. While I love my coffee beers, sometimes you just want a beer flavoured beer - besides, for some strange reason I find the ...