First of all I hope you are healthy and safely indoors. If you’re a key worker, thank you for venturing out. Thank you to every single one of you – from the front line NHS workers living a daily nightmare to the guys emptying my bins once a week to the good folk working in…… Continue reading Stay Safe, That’s An Order!
Happy New Year people. I hope you get to try plenty of cracking beers in 2020 and don’t be shy in letting me know what they are when you have them. There’s been a lot of anticipation for the new Whiplash beers following the completion of the brewery’s new building in Dublin. One of the…… Continue reading Last Christmas
Hallelujah! The children on the hill have put their toys back in their prams and Stormont is functional once again. Some positive political news for once. But this post isn’t about the Shinners or DUP, (who surely deserve that £1,000 per MLA pay rise after being back to work for, what, one week?) It’s about…… Continue reading The B Words
When I’m in the Republic of Ireland I always try to stop into Lidl to see if I can pick up any of the supermarket’s own-brand beer, not available in Northern Ireland. However what I look for isn’t any old Lidl brand, oh no, this is the superb value-for-money range by The Crafty Brewing Company,…… Continue reading Lidl Means More Down South
The beer scene across the world is constantly evolving and that also applies to this nano patch of Planet Earth we call Northern Ireland. Some breweries fell by the wayside in 2019 while a few more started up. Some beer styles fell slightly out of favour while a few others gained traction. Some archaic licensing…… Continue reading Northern Ireland Golden Pints 2019
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