This BelleVue Kriek was one of a few beers I was very keen to try when I did that pilfering of my mum and dad’s coolroom. Like the others, I knew it […]
Old Beers I Swiped – Day Four
Old Beers I Swiped – Day Three
Permit me to say something nice about Monteith’s. See that label over there on the left? That label starts me reminiscing about the time I discovered Monteith’s and when it was good. […]
Old Beers I Swiped – Day Two
I actually know how this can of Milwaukee’s Best ended up in my parents’ coolroom. I was responsible – well, kind of. The beer is about seven years old, because that’s when […]
Old Beers I Swiped – Day One
At my parents’ place there is a coolroom full of stuff. Some of which has been there for some time. That includes various beers, which I’ve seen sitting at the back of […]
Chimay is okay
I just love the weirdness of Trappist beers. Why are they weird? Let me count the ways. 1) They’re made by monks. Come on, that’s weird, yeah? 2) There’s a Trappist beer police […]
I was made for loathing you, baby
The new KISS beer called Destroyer really surprised me. I’ve long known than KISS is the sort of band renowned for, shall we say, very intensive marketing. They’ve never been shy about […]
Forget the gardening
If a brewer designs a beer to be drunk in a certain way – with a certain food, during certain weather, in a certain glass, that sort of stuff – I try […]
A beer for the Bear
It was beyond doubt that I was going to buy and review a beer called The Bear. Why? Because that’s my nickname – has been since uni. It’s something that tends to […]
A bit wiser about Bud
Budweiser is a beer I’ve never had – and with good reason. The advance news of this US beer has never been good. In my teens, when my own knowledge of beer […]
A surprise from Uncle Dan’s
So there I was at work pulling a Saturday shift. As you might imagine there’s isn’t a whole lot of joy that comes with working on a day you know that plenty […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 