Here’s your cheat sheet for Gadds No. 5 by Ramsgate Brewery. It’s #tradbods tonight, with this well-established brewery from Kent. We brew distinctive Kentish beers, using years of knowledge, experience and understanding – we’ve been around long enough to know what we’re doing, and not so long as to be old fashioned. Ramsgate Brewery, Gadds No. 5 / Best Bitter …
Electric Bear, Howdy Ho
Here’s your cheat sheet for Howdy Ho by Electric Bear. This is an unfined, unfiltered, unpasteurised natural beer. As such it is suitable for vegans. Electric Bear, Howdy Ho / American Brown Ale / 5.1% ABV Featured in main subscriber box on 8 February 2018. Find the brewery on Twitter at @ElectricBearUK and on Instagram at @electricbearbrewing.
Kriek overload: drowning in cherry beer to find you the best one
I have always loved cherries. It’s one of my favourite flavours, so it’s no surprise that I’m also a big fan of kriek, the Belgian cherry beer. I inadvertently started amassing an army of bottles of the stuff early last year. I’d buy one and stick it in the cupboard, thinking to drink it at a later date, and then …
Brew York, Imperial Tonkoko Stout
Imperial Milk Stout, 7.5% ABV Featured in BeerBods Plus box 4 on 1 February 2018. Find the brewery on Twitter at @brewyorkbeer and on Instagram at @brewyorkbeer. Serving temperature Serve this beer at 13°C to 16°C; 15 minutes in the fridge should be enough, maybe as much as 30 if your beer has been kept somewhere warm. As ever, be …
Brew York, Brew York APA
Here’s your cheat sheet for Brew York APA by Brew York. The beer so good they named it twice? Let’s hope so! Brew York, Brew York APA / American Pale Ale / 5.1% ABV Featured in main subscriber box on 1 February 2018. Find the brewery on Twitter at @brewyorkbeer and on Instagram at @brewyorkbeer.
Yeastie Boys, Gunnamatta
Here’s your cheat sheet for Gunnamatta by Yeastie Boys. The Yeastie Boys are Stu and Sam. These Kiwis are based in Wellington but also have one foot in the UK, as they brew some of their beers here in order to get them to out to the UK market nice and fresh. I suspect we’ll be enjoying a locally brewed …
First Beer Experiences – Jonny Garrett
As part of the series on first beer experiences I have been curating for Tryanuary, we’ve seen contributions from Daisy Turnell and Natalya Watson, among others. Now I’m extremely pleased to add the excellent Jonny Garrett to the list. Jonny is a writer and filmmaker. After an unsuccessful period of being a music journalist, and an even less successful stint …
Get the Most from Your Year in Beer
Here we are once again at the coldest, bleakest point of our orbit around the sun, plunging through the mind-grinding vastness of a cosmos so empty and uncaring about our insignificant human foibles that it’s almost enough to drive you to drink… Talking of which. If your mind turns at this point to the enjoyment of beer in the company …
The Runaway Brewery, Tropical Coffee IPA
IPA, 6.2% ABV Featured in BeerBods Plus box 4 on 18 January 2018. Find the brewery on Twitter at @RunawayBrewery and on Instagram at @runawaybrewery. Find the roastery on Twitter at @HeartandGraft and on Instagram at @heartandgraft.
Black Isle Brewery, Scotch Ale
Here’s the cheat sheet for Black Isle Brewery, Scotch Ale. A wee heavy, if you will. This one looks set to be a big beer with plenty of malty fruitcake and caramel flavours. Scotch Ale, 6.2% ABV Featured in main subscription box on 18 January 2018. Find the brewery on Twitter at @BlackIsleBeer and on Instagram at @blackislebrewery.