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Buying Beer Online: Flavourly

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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 ...
Buying Beer Online: Flavourly
Bedlam Brewery Tour-At-Home

Brewery: Bedlam
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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 ...
Bedlam Brewery Tour-At-Home
Anspach & Hobday Tour-At-Home

Brewery: Anspach & Hobday
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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 ...
Anspach & Hobday Tour-At-Home
Moor Beer: Fusion, 2012 Vintage
Moor Beer: Fusion, 2012 Vintage

Brewery: Moor Beer
Abv: 8.0%
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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
Samuel Adams Rebel IPA

Brewery: Samuel Adams
Abv: 6.5%
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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 1215 Ale

Brewery: Sambrook's
Abv: 8.0%
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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
AG14 - Pete's Porter

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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 ...
AG13 - Hop Panic!
AG13 - Hop Panic!

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This story has two rather contradictory morals to it, but they're both equally valuable lessons. Moral 1: Plan Ahead I started out with the intention of re-making my previously successful #IPADay, because it's a lovely beer and my store of the previous batch was running low. The brew day started out well enough, and the grain ...
O'Hara's Brewery Tour At Home

Brewery: O'Hara's
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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, ...
O'Hara's Brewery Tour At Home
Belvoir Brewery Tour-At-Home

Brewery: Belvoir
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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 ...
Belvoir Brewery Tour-At-Home