What kind of first birthday party have you been to where there’s been over thirty beers from local breweries on offer? A damned good one, that’s for sure. That was the case last weekend with Galway Bay Brewery’s only Northern Irish pub, Northern Lights on the Ormeau Road in Belfast, reaching the one year milestone…… Continue reading A One Year Old’s Party, Norn Iron Pub Style
A year ago if you mentioned the word ‘brut’, I’d have assumed you were talking about champagne or a dodgy aftershave. But this ain’t no 2017, it’s the back end of 2018 and it’s a time when everyone’s talking about Brut IPAs, right? But what is it and does it have potential to be the…… Continue reading The Sparkling Rise of Brut IPA
I’m a generous man. A new feature for the blog today in the form of a first guest post, that honour going to Portrush man Erol Bucukoglu. We recently had a conversation about beer festival glasses and he asked if I was going to write on the issue. Erol (@shakesbeer9) regularly travels to London and has…… Continue reading Guest Post: Beer Festivals – A Glassy Experience
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