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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 11: Rascals
Circumstances changed the annual release of the Rascals Social Hops Project beer. No jolly night out for the hop growers this year; instead we got a minikeg each of the fruits of our horticultural...
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The Twelve Brewers of Christmas 12: Leftovers
Merry Christmas! As is now traditional on this the second year of it, my Twelve Brewers sequence ends with the beers I met along the way but couldn't squeeze into another post. Once again I've managed...
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Celebrating darkness
Following July's Boxtravaganza virtual festival, The White Hag followed up last month with an online festival of stout and oysters. I bought one of the packs, separated out the beers that were new to...
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Enough already
When Boak & Bailey kindly awarded me their 2020 Golden Pint for best beer blogger, the citation mentioned my "business-as-usual, non-plague-related content". So shall it be with my own Golden Pint...
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Away we go
It feels weird not to be abroad for New Year's -- the first time in two decades. The nearest I'm getting to a jolly jaunt in some chilly European city is a frosty German winter lager.Der Hirschbräu...
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Slow burner
I gather from their socials that only a fraction of Boundary's output gets exported for sale south of the border, but there's a hell of a lot. Trying to keep up is probably not an option so here's a...
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Hop and sour soup
It's destination Colorado once again today, and some (hopefully) tangy delights from the Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project.We start sessionably with Double Dry-Hop Sour, 4.5% ABV and offering an...
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The fifth column
Some new haze from Lough Gill today, beginning with Speckled Stone IPA. It's 5% ABV and quite a dark one: amber-orange rather than the de rigueur custard yellow. Still, it smells properly juicy, a...
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Three faces of IPA
Wild Beer used to be that upmarket English brewery whose beer came in the fancy painted bottles. Now, there's loads of them, and they're in cans. I gathered up a handful to tell you about them.The...
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Dundark
I was always a bit disappointed that Dundalk Bay Brewery had not included a stout in their Brewmaster core range, opting instead for lager, red and IPA. Their special edition imperial stout, Romanov,...
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Not so scaldy
There was a late rush of beers from Whiplash at the tail end of 2020. Of particular interest to me were the darker ones as this is an area where the brewery excels, even though most of its output is...
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Voodoo strangers
Through the latter half of last year I found myself accumulating an array of beers from New Belgium and then omitting to actually drink them. When the multiple Voodoo Ranger variants arrived, this...
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Strictly for the birds
I suppose I may throw one token post in the direction of this month and its customary abstemiousness. I have long been a fan of the Hitachino Nest beers from Kiuchi Brewery, and this 0.3% ABV one...
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Bitter over sweet
A couple of quick ones from Thornbridge today.First up is Pondera, their contribution to the west coast revival. For some proper west coast cred they've called in Firestone Walker from California to...
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Witch hops?
The Union Series of single-hopped IPAs from The White Hag reaches numbers five and six with a couple of new additions late last year.I opened the Azacca one first. It gets busy with the fruit early on,...
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Don't call it a comeback
Whatever happened to De Struise? It's not just that I haven't been swanning around the Low Countries in over a year; I haven't encountered any of their beers in the wild for nearly three. And I've been...
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Casks from the Cellar
2021's doubtless plentiful sequence of DOT beers begins with this bunch, all launched in the dying days of last year. No IPAs this time -- we're going all-in with barrelly darkness.The first is an...
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Salty hops
One pleasant discovery for me from the summer's Boxtravaganza virtual festival was Yorkshire's Salt brewery. Their beers started to make an appearance on the shelves here later in 2020, beginning with...
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Nuts to that
Peanuts in beer. It's a phenomenon that seems to have come from nowhere in recent months and this is the third one to come my way since December. This one is called Peanut Butter Milk Stout, from milk...
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Irish for lager
Ahh, The Pivot. With no sign of pubs re-opening any time soon, the breweries who relied on the draught trade have had to small-pack their beers in order to sell them. It's entirely understandable and...
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