1) Let me talk about bottling dates for a minute. Here’s what I don’t want – I don’t want dates printed on a brown bottle in dark ink in some unspecified place […]
Five Things About … Bridge Road Brewers’ Hop Rain
The Thursday Quote
“To make it appeal to more people we could have added sugar to it, probably given it some oak treatment,” Kraus says. “Put it in barrel and then age it to build […]
GABS Brewer 2017 – Bridge Road Brewers
GABS Brewer 2017: Steve Matthews from Bridge Road Brewers What sort of beer are you making for GABS? A Salted Pretzel Gose What’s it called? Maria’s Pretzel Gose Where did the inspiration […]
Who’s in and who’s out?
When you start up a club you have to work out who can join and who can’t. Which means you need some membership criteria – and the clearer that criteria is the […]
Not waiting til December
On the way home from work yesterday, I stopped into Uncle Dan’s to buy one of those Craft Beer Countdown Christmas advent cases. I think the guys at Bridge Road Brewers organise […]
The Thursday Quote
“It was (and still is) a challenge for them. But they believe in the style and want to grow it. Currently it’s grouped with pale ales, but I believe in the future […]
A better option than a definition of craft beer
Coming up with a definition of ‘‘craft beer’’ has always seemed like a pointless exercise to me. And yet the industry spends a staggering amount of time and energy trying to come […]
Five Things About … Bridge Road Brewers Little Bling
1) I think I might be getting a bit absent-minded in my old age. You see, I could swear I have written about Little Bling from Bridge Road before. So I […]
The Six-Pack – December 4, 2015
Number 1: This Instagram picture from me. These two @nakedned beers together = an amazingly great blended beer. A photo posted by Beer Is Your Friend (@beerisyourfriend) on Nov 29, 2015 at […]
Christmas comes early
No spoiler alert: no beers in either of these packs are named in this post. What you’re looking at in this photo is two advent beer cases – one from Crafty Brew […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 