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Darkness and daylight
This post started out as a quick catch-up with YellowBelly Brewery but their output being what it is, it's now a five-beer mini-marathon.We begin with the fourth release in their members-only club...
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From the edge
Post Card Brewing Co. had been on hiatus for a while. Its host brewery, Craftworks, moved location and rebranded as Select Batch, and now the Post Card series has had a revamp also, with modern labels...
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A black day
It was International Stout Day a couple of weeks ago. Diageo marked the occasion with a festival of stouts at the Open Gate Brewery, with specials of their own and a handful of guest brewers from home...
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Learn your Latin
The Borefts Beer Festival celebrated its tenth outing in the grounds of the De Molen brewery in September. It was my seventh visit overall, and my second since it moved from casual entry to all-ticket....
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All the way up
There's always a good showing from the nordics at Borefts, confirming that region as an instigator and driving force of interesting beer in Europe. As one would expect, the 2018 iteration of the...
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Look east
Borefts is pretty much the only place I get to drink Russian beer. This year there were two breweries from the Motherland on the roster.Zagavor is from the capital and they had produced a special...
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The less exotic
My final post from the 2018 Borefts Beer Festival at De Molen concerns the beers from the brewery, its compatriots, and the others from north-west Europe.We'll begin with a new binomial stout from De...
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Not the Borefts afterparty
L-R: Kinsbergen, Sunshine ShackFor Borefts weekend I was staying with a friend in The Hague (hi Robert!) where a new brewpub has opened earlier this year. Van Kinsbergen is smart and modern in that...
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Thick and fast
Another Irish beer round-up already? Blimey. I guess it's because we're coming into premier drinking season that everyone is turning the beers out now.They often come in giftable boxes, and Boyne...
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The black cans
Pale sessiony UK beers that come in small black tins is the theme which suggested itself to me when I inspected the contents of the fridge. It's as good as any other.Curious Session IPAÂ arrived as a...
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Pop-up Hag
This was unexpected. For two long weekends in late October The White Hag Brewery took over an abandoned pub in central Dublin and ran a series of theme nights. Scheduling conflicts mean I only made it...
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Sierra all the way
I honestly thought they had just changed the can design. It's an indictment of slow-moving beer in Irish shops that I didn't bat an eyelid when both designs sat side by side for month after month. A...
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Back at it
Another Irish beer round up in the same week as the last one? 'Fraid so.Wicklow Wolf, for one, has been very busy, with the harvesting and the collaborating. The 2018 edition of Locavore landed, in two...
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Bag o' cats
I made my second trip to Bristol this year in late October for a family event. With the wife accompanying me, that meant a fair amount of time in the feline-infested surrounds of The Bag o' Nails pub....
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Zeroes and heroes
I didn't get to do a whole lot of discretionary pub crawling on my most recent visit to Bristol, mostly going where events took me. Luckily one of the places was Zero Degrees, where I hadn't been since...
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Tick tock
The final ever iteration of The Session happens today, and I'm seeing it out the way I'd like to be remembered: scooping furiously. The occasion was the BrewDog Collabfest where once a year each branch...
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Welcome to Mikkeller World
Mid-November landed me in Copenhagen for four days on EBCU business, and afforded the chance to see where this most vibrant of European beer scenes is at these days. It turns out there's a lot of...
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How we got to Mikkeller World
Yesterday's post concerned the inescapable ubiquity of Mikkeller on Copenhagen's beer scene. The company gets at you before you're even on the ground, if you're flying SAS at least. Last year I...
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Familiar haunts and new ground
I feel I got a good mix of pubs into my recent visit to Copenhagen, leaning more towards places I'd never been before but stopping by some favourites of old as well.Inevitably I ended up at Fermentoren...
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Amager night
One day of EBCU business at the Autumn meeting this year was held at the Amager brewery in Copenhagen's suburban flatlands, not far from the airport. Like every Danish brewery in mid-November they were...
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