Old Dairy Brewery – Blue Top
The British summer. What I need is a great beer that will remind me of those summer meadows, freshly cut hay, the dreadful hayfever I got this year. In fact, what would be great is a mildly warm summer since its been pretty lousy this year. Lets reach for that IPA then…
Chapel Down – Curious Porter
Its arguable whether or not I should have know that this beer was produced very close to where we live; however, it is inexcusable when we’ve been to the vineyard to have missed these beers, I am making up for lost time.
Schelde Brouwerij – ‘n Toeback
Belgian beers: probably should be drinking more of these now I am reasonably close in geographic terms. The one thing that stops this is the lack of stockists in the local area. This excuse is somewhat tragic in that I could just jump on a boat and buy some in Belgium. I have no excuse....
Castle Rock – Harvest Pale
Don’t know much about this beer. It somehow ended up in my stash, no idea where it came fro or from whom, and here I am writing about it…
Fuller’s – London Porter
Whilst Fuller’s brewery is fairly close geographically, there isn’t too much in the way of variety available this side of the Medway (East). Finding the odd bottle in the stores means having to take it whilst you can, as the opportunity arises…
Herefordshire Cider (Waitrose)
This dry, still cider isn’t going to be available to many people who aren’t too close a Waitrose since this is their own label cider. If ever there is an incentive to find one then here we go…
Shepherd Neame – Christmas Ale
There doesn’t seem to be too many seasonal ales to find in the local stores and outlets; certainly when compared to the seasonal ales you find in a lot of US stores the selection is comparatively pitiful. For this one I had to visit the brewery store itself…
Chimay – Tripel
Its been a long ime since I had a Belgian beer, or even a Tripel. I was introduced to this style of beer when working in The Netherlands. Given that the local (mass produced) beers were not exactly the finest one can find I managed to find the finer establishments that sold beers from over...
Greene King – IPA
I would have said that this was going to be an English IPA, because it says so on the bottle; however, some other websites beg to differ. I am going with this being an IPA since it hit a lot of the right boxes when going through the tasting notes
