Category: Tasting
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Atlantic White, Brains Craft Brewery, 6.0%
Atlantic White is a take on a traditional Witbier. Witbier: A Belgian Style ale that’s usually very pale and cloudy in appearance due to it being unfiltered and the high level of wheat, and sometimes oats, that’s used in the mash. Witbiers are almost always spiced, generally with coriander, orange peel and other spices or herbs…
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Sunshine, Brass Castle Brewery, 5.7% ABV
In 2011, the brewery was set up in a garage and produced four casks at a time. Within two months Brass Castle had won Champion Beer at the York CAMRA Beer Festival. Within six months, brewing moved to Lord Halifax’s historic Garrowby Estate brewhouse and now Brass Castle is based in Malton town centre. The…
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Yakima IPA, Great Heck Brewing Company, 7.4% ABV
Great Heck Brewery was established in 2008 in the heart of the Selby coalfield, and has gained a reputation as one of the best brewers of cask and bottled ales in Yorkshire- by no means an easy task given the brewing history of the region. They proudly produce both traditional and excitingly modern beers with…
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Abdominal Stoneman, Lymestone Brewery, 7.0% ABV
For almost a thousand years, the town of Stone in Staffordshire has been a brewing town. Stone’s first recorded brewers were Augustinian Monks who brewed ales blessed with the sign of the cross. Lymestone is a small independent or “Micro brewery” situated a small distance from Stone town centre in what was described to the…
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Little Wild, The Little Beer Corporation, 6% ABV
From a Guildford-based micro-brewery comes the Little Wild IPA. Their slogan is Live a big life, drink a little beer and they seem to be truly passionate. Their website is packed full of information about them, and I hope you’ll check it out because I can’t do them justice in my own words, so I’ll let…
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Over the Hill Dark Mild, Hillside Brewery 3.5% ABV
By way of minor preamble, I’ve had one hell of a week. By the time I finally got around to drinking this Over the Hill Dark Mild from Hillside Brewery I was absolutely gagging for the simple pleasure of a refreshing, easy-drinking yet flavourful beer. Weighing in at just 3.5% ABV, I was pretty sure…
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Oberon Session IPA, Wharfe Bank Brewery, 4.2% ABV
It looks like this might have been one of the last bottles of a beer that is no longer in production! Shame, because it was very tasty and a nice ABV. I believe that Wharfe Bank are continuing to produce an IPA but at a higher alcohol content. Find Wharfe Bank Brewery online here (http://www.wharfebankbrewery.co.uk)…
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Red Kite Ale, Black Isle Brewing Company, 4.2% ABV
A fine looking ale this is. Another Scottish brewery featuring on beerliever.com. Black Isle claim to be the UK’s premier organic brewery making world class beers from the finest organic malt and hops grown on farms without chemicals, as nature intended. Based near Inverness, the capital of the Highlands of Scotland, it is our beautiful, unspoilt,…
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Dark Island, Orkney Brewery, 4.6%
This one should be good! The tranquil Orkney Islands, with their fertile farming lands and fishing grounds, have been inhabited for over 5000 years. The Orkney brewery is housed in the former schoolhouse in Quoyloo 1 mile from Skara Brae in the heart of Neolithic Orkney… You’ll find everything you need on their website (http://www.sinclairbreweries.co.uk/home.html)…
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An enjoyable, if slightly disappointing, half at the Platform Tavern, Southampton, UK
It’s a beautiful day here in Southampton, it’s lunchtime, and I thought I would wander into the Platform Tavern in Southampton for a pint of the localest of local beer, brewed next door at the Dancing Man Brewery. Imagine my dismay to find that they didn’t have any. None at all. Zero. Zip. Nada. Diddly…
