https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vOBeiWkoq9c9wjpbYz6oD Some things are great to see – such as the hypnotic Northern Lights dancing over Icelandic skies, Liverpool thumping Man Utd 7-0 and when restaurants pair up with local breweries. There are some brilliant connections between our eateries and brewers, the result is usually having local bottles or cans being offered on the menu…… Continue reading Six Appeal – Our Brewery x Sleepy Hollow
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rCyIDVsor77RloR2TPTlQ Ah the heady days of 2011, I remember them well: Darren Clarke won the Open golf, Game of Thrones premiered, Gaddafi and bin Laden exited this world and Ards Brewing came into being. The Greyabbey outfit is one of Northern Ireland’s oldest craft breweries and although it falls well behind 1996 for Whitewater and…… Continue reading Stash Killing: Ards Brewing
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1k9vbeSAdPwAlhM5mBPWQ7 If you think I’d pay a fiver for four or five samples of quality beers in a brewery’s taproom while the brewer feeds me information about each one of those tasty beers, you’d be damned right. If you think I’d do that while surrounded by over forty other like-minded beer fans on a Thursday…… Continue reading OoO, a Beer Club!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ba37U71bHrsOLL2egGCmy The founder of Lollapalooza, a Chicago music festival, claims the word is an old term meaning “extraordinarily impressive”. Tweak the lettering slightly and you have Bullapalooza – a beer and food festival in Belfast celebrating Bullhouse East’s first birthday. A much smaller festival in a much smaller city but just as hugely impressive. Bullhouse…… Continue reading Bravo for Bullapalooza!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1pcKob0myiiUJ3C9uSDqWm I’ve taken to diminishing my barrel aged stout stash over the past few months because what’s the point in having an ageing stash if it’s not to be consumed at some point? The difficult key factor however is knowing when exactly is the peak year or month to open a particular bottle? Different barrel…… Continue reading Stash Killing: Bullhouse
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