Tag: England
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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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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…
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ISIS Pale Ale, Compass Brewery, 4.9% ABV
An unfortunate name in the present world news climate situation malarkey. Who wants to be googling ISIS at the moment, eh? But that aside, you’re more than welcome to find out all about the Compass Brewery on their website or by following them on Twitter. And now on to the ISIS Pale Ale: We’re an…
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Curious Porter, Chapel Down Winery, 4.4% ABV
A porter brewed by a winery? How curious! Curious indeed. Here’s what their website says: We are not only England’s leading wine producer but also one of the UK’s most exciting drinks companies. Produced in Kent using grapes from our own and partner vineyards across the South East of England, Chapel Down creates world-class Traditional…
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Pride, Saltaire Brewery, 3.9% ABV
From their website: Saltaire Brewery was established in 2005 and is dedicated to the production of high quality ales with a contemporary twist. The Brewery is close to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Saltaire Village, famous for its Victorian industrial heritage and is situated in an old generating hall that once provided the electricity for the Bradford…
