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 Seven
Be excited! It’s back!
You know what’s good? When the Illawarra Brewing Company releases an awesome seasonal called Apocalypso and it quickly becomes your absolute favourite IBC beer. When you realise it’s just a seasonal, you […]
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 Five
Porters and stouts tend to be the easiest styles for me to find faults in. Well, “faults” isn’t the right word here, probably “things I don’t like about the beer”. So while […]
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 […]
It’s YouTubesday!
In the UK there’s a phenomenon called Beerticking – that’s where people write down every new beer they try. They also make special efforts to travel considerable distances to get those new […]
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 […]
Dark Beer Week – Day One
Okay, so choosing a beer with a “Reduced to Clear 30 per cent off” sticker to start off Dark Beer Week might not seem like a great idea, but stick with me […]
The Session #76 Round-Up
Being time-poor as I am (which is really my way of covering up the fact that I’m simply lazy) I haven’t read a lot of the other bloggers work in Sessiosn past. […]
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