Tour At Home Posts

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 ...

O'Hara's Brewery Tour At Home

If Saint Patrick's Day this year proved anything, it's that large portions of the UK seem to think that the only beer Ireland has even heard of is stout. I even saw pubs proudly tweeting their beery line-ups for the day, consisting entirely of stouts that weren't even from Ireland. This is, of course, ...

Belvoir Brewery Tour-At-Home

Belvoir Brewery is a Leicestershire brewery, just a stone's throw from Melton Mowbray - home of pies and cheese fairs. It's now 20 years old, which isn't ancient by any measure but certainly means it pre-dates the craft beer revolution. They have a number of beers in their core range - the website lists ...

Five Points Brewery Tour-At-Home

The Five Points Brewing Co is based (where else) in Hackney, along with half of the other breweries to be found in London. It must be something in the water. The rather curious name comes from their location, based right next to a five fingered road junction that could so easily have led to ...

Fourpure Brewery Tour-At-Home

Edit: It's probably worth reading this in combination with On Ageing...; in short, the issues I mention below were age and/or condition related - in a good state, the beer is excellent! Fourpure are one of the Bermondsey Breweries; that strange cluster of beermongers nestling under the railway line out of London Bridge. They're a little ...

Redemption Brewery Tour-At-Home

It's fair to say that the majority of my beer drinking is done at home – in keeping, I imagine, with the majority of beer drinkers. Although the true aficionados will tell you that beer is at its best fresh from the cask (or keg, depending on which side of the CAMRA fence ...

The Redchurch Brewery Tour-At-Home

The Redchurch Brewery was founded in East London back in 2011 and I hope it doesn't give too much away to say that they've become one of my favourite breweries. Not only do they make some wonderfully tasty beer – more on that in a moment – but their overall design is a ...

Lizard Ales Tour-At-Home

Continuing our round-up of Cornish breweries, we reach Lizard Ales, a brewery which has been based in a nuclear bunker since 2008. It's somehow comforting to know that even after a nuclear war, we'll still have some breweries in production. Since this post was originally published, Lizard Ales (the company) has ceased trading, although oddly ...

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 ...

Sierra Nevada Brewery Tour-At-Home

Sierra Nevada are probably one of the best known US brewers in this country. As with many great breweries, they were founded 30 years ago in California by a keen homebrewer who dreamt of taking things to the next level. Their Pale Ale is widely available in supermarkets and bars, and it's happily easy to ...