I think it was the weight of expectation that made me avoid Holgate’s Beelzebub’s Jewels. See, I’m a fan of Holgate and Beelzebub was one of the few Holgate beers I hadn’t […]
What The F..k Are You Waiting For – Day Four
What The F..k Are You Waiting For? – Day Three
The last time I tried Robinsons Old Tom English strong ale I was rather unimpressed. I certainly didn’t think it lived up to the boast on the neck label – “world’s best […]
What The F..k Are You Waiting For? – Day Two
As some of the names I give my homebrew would indicate, I have a preference for weird names. So when I see a beer on a bottle shop shelf called Dangerously Close […]
What The F..k Are You Waiting For? – Day One
Being a beer geek, I tend to buy more beer than I need. That gives me a choice when I want something to drink. While I’m making those choices, there are beers […]
A slab story
An open letter to Dani Allen and Jayne Lewis of Two Birds Brewing. You know, I don’t really buy slabs of beer very often. Virtually never in fact. My actual annual tally […]
The tides they are a’changing
If I were a crazy person I’d presume that the people at Sail & Anchor had the power to read my mind and that I should start stopping a tinfoil hat to […]
Britain, the United States and the India Pale Ale
Drinking this IPA from Cricketers Arms I was struck by two things. Firstly, that it wasn’t crap. There has been a Cricketers Arms Lager that’s been around for a while and, by […]
Old Beers I Swiped – Day Seven
So if the way the Coopers stout didn’t stack up yesterday was a surprise of the unpleasant kind, today’s beer, Tooheys Old, was very much a pleasant surprise. Even more so because […]
Old Beers I Swiped – Day Six
In this whole week, this bottle of Coopers Best Extra Stout was the swiped old beer that I was most looking forward to trying. It’s Australian, which meant it didn’t have to […]
Old Beers I Swiped – Day Five
Sometimes the problem with drinking old beers is you don’t know what they were supposed to taste like fresh. Such is the problem I faced with the Vieille Cuvee from Leffe. I’d […]
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