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
Hillstown Brewery, sited at Hillstown Farm midway between Randalstown and Ahoghill in County Antrim, has been up and running since mid 2014 producing some crackers such as the black IPA Pamoja and my favourite local beer of last year – a red ale called 3 Bad Bears. Now in 2018 the brewery is part of…… Continue reading A Lidl Trio of Hillstown
Belfast’s co-operative brewery Boundary has been steadily pumping out the beers recently and combined with the new canning system in place, it’s been all go down the Newtownards Road. Mutual Feelings is a milk stout that made its debut appearance on draught at the city’s ABV Festival in late August before being one of the…… Continue reading Autumn Arrivals
Is being a blogger nowadays all about simply being an online advert for a specific company or whoever’s giving you a freebie on that day? While recently scrolling through my twitter feed, I happened to notice that several eminent writers in the local bloggerati world were posting about the same company on the same day.…… Continue reading Opinionated So and So
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