1) It must be so hard to come up with an original idea these days. Just this week I came up with a great name for a podcast about language – Fully […]
Five Things About … Nomad’s Millions of Peaches Peach IPA
Five Things About … Five Barrel’s Robust Porter
1) For a long, long time I was guilty of taking the beers made by brewers in my home town for granted. They were – and still are – making good beers […]
Five Things About … Akasha’s Korben D
1) Remember the old day back of 2012 when Dave Padden at Riverside was the hottest brewer in town? Ye Gods, the beer geeks went nuts for his stuff. So much so […]
Beer of the Week – Hairyman Brewery’s Pop Ale
1) “I don’t like beer but I really liked this”. That’s what the bottle shop attendant said to me as they scanned the four-pack of Pop Ale from Hairyman Brewery. I wasn’t […]
Five Things About .. Red Hill’s 2018 Hop Harvest beers
1) They sent me two bottles of their latest beers. So of course I immediately work out which one will be better – even before I try them. They are Red Hill, […]
Five Things About … Stone & Wood’s Honey Cream Ale
1) It may seem like a stupidly obvious thing to say, but it’s a great thing to get free beer in the mail. Yeah, beer is good. But free beer is […]
Five Things About … Hop House 13 Lager
1) When reviewing something, there’s always a fundamental issue to be dealt with. And that is, do you review the thing on what it is, or what it claims to be. So […]
Five Things About … Little Creatures Extra Pale Ale
1) I’m in the sixth year of writing this blog. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking – “jeez, he’s been doing this since 2012 and he’s still rubbish at it”. To which […]
Beer of the Week – Vale Ale
1) I’m old enough to remember a time when Vale Ale was hard to find. These days it’s almost as common as, say, Pirate Life or Young Henrys (both of which are […]
Five Things About … Nomad’s Freshie Watermelon Gose
1) You know, I never really eat as much watermelon as a I should. I love the stuff and, each summer , I plan to eat me a whole lot of […]
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