Jan
16
Well if “Gem” is the standard Bath Ales Beer, then Wild Hare is its slightly tangy cousin. Now I may be cracking up but I’m sure this beer had a hint of green about it as I poured it out.
Its a good beer for a pint or two but I wouldn’t want any more of it then that… but maybe I’m doing it a disservice. Maybe on a hot Summers day in a nice beer garden I’d be wanting plenty of this stuff.
I’ll just have to hunt this stuff down over this Summer, and find out.
Jan
14
After the disappointment of the Sainsburys Christmas Ale. This is beautiful! Basically someone who looks after the Monty Python name has joined forces with the Black Sheep Brewery. The result is a bottle with some humor, and a fine tasting beer. Perfect for a Christmas gift set.
Info from the website:
Another fine addition to the Black Sheep Brewery range of premium bottled ales, our Holy Grail was specially commissioned to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Pythons.
It has a distinctive taste with plenty of fruity hops, and is full flavoured with a dry and refreshing bitterness.
Jan
13
Snow ploughs and what unable to clear the snow? Maybe thats where they are going wrong…
With thanks to the telegraph for this…
Jan
08
A while ago, when we first ventured to Bristol to visit some friends of ours we discovered the Bath Ales Brewery. I did not hide my love for their beer – to the point in which last Christmas I was given the very amazing present of a Bath Ales box set.
The first of the three box set I’m sampling is “Barnstormer”. Its a fruity dark ale, with an slight smell of chocolate. It looks deep and heavy, but doesn’t taste like it. Its thirst quenching, and tastes like the sort of beer that you could have a good session with.
Interested? You can buy Barnstormer from BeerMerchants.com.
Jan
07
Every New Year, my mate Big John manages to get hold of some home made Irish Cream. It tastes like Baileys but stronger and nicer. Now (with thanks to Lifehacker for finding it), the cupcake blog has instructions on how to make it!
So all you need is the following:
1 C light cream (I used heavy whipping cream, which made it even richer)
14 oz sweetened condensed milk
1 2/3 C Irish whiskey (I used Jameson’s)
1 t instant coffee
2 T Hershey’s chocolate syrup (I used Torani)
1 t vanilla
1 t almond extract (I skipped this entirely)
Combine all ingredients in a blender and set on high speed for 30 seconds.
Bottle in a tightly sealed container and refrigerate. Shake before using.
Will keep for up to 2 months.
Jan
04
Chocolate +Beer. It never works! Until now…
Long term readers will know that I’m a fan of chocolate, and that I’m obviously a fan of beer. On the other hand if you put the two together, it never works. Its either always to thick, or to sickly. You may wonder why I’m giving this a go – well Christmas presents are there to be drank.
And I’m glad this was drunk. Marks and Spencer’s have done a good job here. Its a light tasting drink, but it has just the right amount of ‘chocolate’ thrown into it. The original sensation is first thirst quenching, followed by the gentle chocolate breeze, which is finished with a fantastically tangy aftertaste.
Good stuff! Worth a sample!
Jan
03
Best Pub
Well, what I mean by this, is best pub I paid a random visit to. Now there are plenty of places we could name, but we go there all the time. So I’m going to name the best place we’ve been once. This year the award goes to The Victoria Inn in Salcombe. Great welcome and fantastic beer, making this place worth while checking out.
Worst Welcome at a Pub
The Old Lock and Weir Inn in Bristol, wins this hands down! Not the most friendly people ever…
Best Brewery
Hands down, it has to be Skinners. It might have been because we were in Cornwall for a while and drank a fair bit from them, but they were all beautiful. Its just a shame that they were closed when we tried to visit!
Worst Breakfast
Breakfasts this year have included hotels, B&Bs, Pubs, and Cafes. The worst of them has to be found at the Plume of Feathers in Princetown, it was pricey and cold. Not nice after a bad nights camping on Dartmoor!
Crazy Media Story of the Year
Tactical Nuclear Penguin. Its a beer, designed to be drank like whiskey. How is this worthwhile news?
Disappointment of the Year
People dont agree with me and the rest of the table I was on that evening, but Titanic Velvet Curtain was so bad, we didn’t finish it.
Agree with any of the above?
Jan
03
Well its a new year, and time for the first “Disappointment of The Month”. I opened up this promising looking tube on New Years Day, a present from the Mrs, it looked like a nice gift… on the outside. When you open it up, there are two disappointments. To start with – the bottle itself, is so small at 330ml its really quite sad. Secondly the free pint glass is non branded – its totally blank! Now I know a pint glass is a pint glass – but a bit of effort would have nice!
So this year… if you’re looking for a beer set for next Christmas. Skip the Sainsbury’s own box set – its not worth 4 quid…
Dec
30
Well this has nothing to do with beer, drinking or anything else like that. But it has alot to do with what alot of beer drinkers like watching online. I’ve come across this on the Daily Mail website. Now why is the Daily Mail giving the Tories the time of day with this trash reporting? People obviously find David Tennant entertaining, or he wouldn’t be on. Besides who has really noticed?
Also Nigel Evans (the Tory MP with too much time on his hands), must have been watching a special edition of the Christmas Day Doctor Who for him to say;
‘It was an hour of Tennant getting chased around a scrap yard by June Whitfield.’
Really? The scene barely lasted a few minutes? If he gets that confused from an hours worth of drama, then should he really be helping to run the country?