The Kernel is a brewery I’ve enthused about before; they were the subject of one of my earlier Brewery Tours At Home and I’ve always loved their beer. Finding myself in the general vicinity of London Bridge recently on a Saturday, I took the opportunity to pop down to the brewery and pick up a… Read more »

This week sees the start of a run of monster beers from breweries I know and love – in this instance Marble, who were the subject of one of my Tours-At-Home and were broadly judged to be lovely. So, when my regular online beer pusher – ahem, sorry, supplier – mentioned on Twitter that they… Read more »

Dark Star is a Sussex based brewer that started life nearly 20 years ago as a brewpub and has grown to be a fairly large brewery – the second largest in the county – with an impressive range of beers. Sadly (for the bottle-buying drinkers) most of their production goes into casks, but a small… Read more »

This week’s monster beer has been lurking at the back of my cupboard for a very long time, but as it’s apparently been matured in oak casks for over a year it’s not exactly going to let a little age worry it. Part of the reason it’s languished so long, to be honest, is because… Read more »