If you’re at all like me, you might have thought Little Creatures simply made up the name of their latest Single Batch. Called Mr Obadiah, I figured that wasn’t a real person […]
The mysterious Mr Obadiah
Dark Beer Week – Day Seven
Sometimes it helps to read the label a bit before buying a beer. See, I picked up this Brooklyn Brewery chocolate stout from the bottle shop up north at Coledale because it’s […]
Dark Beer Week – Day Six
I love a good stout but dark beers scare off some people. Perhaps it’s because they look so heavy and murky compared to the mainstream lagers they think of as ‘‘beer’’. Or […]
Dark Beer Week – Day Four
This would have to be one of my favourite stouts – hands down. I just love its milky sweetness. Brewed in Japan by the Kiuchi Brewery, the Hitachino Nest Lacto Sweet Stout […]
Dark Beer Week – Day Three
You want a real challenge? Try and find a bottle of Southwark Old Stout near your place. And that’s a challenge that stands, regardless of where you live (except perhaps in South […]
Dark Beer Week – Day Two
I’m thinking Sheaf Stout doesn’t get much love from the CUB stables. See, in my day job I was compiling a page of winter beer reviews for the newspaper’s food and wine […]
Getting tarred with Jack
Plenty of people have already expressed surprise that a big brewer like the Woolies-linked Sail & Anchor would go and put out something crazy like a 9.5 per cent imperial stout. Me, […]
I is for imperial
There are a few beer adjectives that cause me some confusion. ‘‘Premium’’ is one of them, as in ‘‘premium lager’’. Firstly, it implies there has been some sort of special treatment given […]
Time for a coffee
I’m glad the the last few days of hot weather have stopped. Partially because I simply don’t function well at high temperatures. But also because I couldn’t drink this beer when it’s […]
Beer Olympics – Day 15
Country: Sri Lanka Beer: Sinha Stout Geography has never, ever been my strong suit. Whenever I see those newspaper stories that snigger about Americans’ inability to find some Middle East countries on […]
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