Posts Tagged: England
Next, CAMRA To Blame Social And Economic Equality
Posted by on Sunday, September 14, 2008 in - 5 comments
My folks came out of industrial Scotland a little over fifty years ago now. Even in the 1950s the end was near for the shipyards where at least three generations of we folk had riveted and steering gear fitted their way to a pretty modest level of economic despair. • When their chances came …
England: Bitter, The Brakspear Brewing Co., Oxfordshire
Posted by on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 in - 5 comments
Loonie. I was even going to boycott British beer today because of the order of the loonie ruling about UK's Trading Standards department requiring Polish beer to be served in pints. I thought the victory over EU regulations was that the pint was saved, not that it was mandated. Boo. However, I was …
Refusing To Sell A Dad Beer, Tesco Embarasses Tesco
Posted by on Thursday, May 15, 2008 in - 3 comments
Pete has this story today but I think it is so unbelievable I am going to play the role of oath bolsterer: • “A cashier told Dominic Zenden, 45, that he could not leave with the Budweiser bottles in case he gave any to his 15-year-old daughter, Devon. Mr Zenden said that the alcohol was for his …
Porter Season: Nightmare, Hambleton Ales, Melmerby, England
Posted by on Monday, May 12, 2008 in - leave a comment
There's plenty to read on this label. The beers full name seems to be "Nightmare Yorkshire Porter" and it's brewed by "Nick Stafford's Hambleton Ales" - there's even a subtitle "Legend of the White Horse" plus a blurb on the side about the damn white horse. In the UK it appears to be labeled as a …
Book Review: "Beer and Skittles", Richard Boston
Posted by on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in - 3 comments
This arrived from a used book shop in the UK yesterday and, today being off sick, it was a great opportunity to rip through this book in record pace. Richard Boston was the columnist for the then Manchester Guardian whose weekly "Boston on Beer" is credited as being as important as the early days …
Big Hop Bombs: India Pale Ale, Meantime, London, England
Posted by on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 in - 6 comments
I picked up a couple of big format bottles of Meantime beers at some point in my travels last year. I needed a Stonch-like moment to try this micro from the centre of the known universe like the one from last March when he tried this beer on an English spring afternoon. Apparently, this first …
Beer At Yule: Seriously Bad Elf, Ridgeway Brewing, England
Posted by on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 in - 5 comments
Why is there no Boxing Day beer? No songs, no traditions and not one beer. It's like Boxing Day is a dirty little secret in the world of holidays. It needs to assert itself and could start with demanding its own beer. This 9% one could be one but I am not sure what to believe about Ridgeway, it's …
Beer At Yule: Lump Of Coal Stout, Ridgeway Brewery, England
Posted by on Sunday, December 16, 2007 in - 1 comment
From the label of this 2006 brewing, you would think it was made for the importers, Shelton Brothers, given the slim reference to the actual brewer. Not the greatest BAer reviews either - I do not like to see the word "thin" pop up in reference to an 8% stout...or rather a "dark holiday stout" … read more »
Paul Goes To The 2007 Dove Beer Festival, Ipswich, England
Posted by on Thursday, December 6, 2007 in - leave a comment
Inspired by the lyrics of a song from the once hirsute folk-prog-rocker and role model for omni-pede flautists the world over, Ian Anderson, I trundled off to the Dove Beer Festival in Ipswich last Saturday, singing to myself "Let me bring you beers from the wood." There was a promise of six ales …
Porter Season: Porter, Harvey and Sons, Lewes, England
Posted by on Thursday, November 29, 2007 in - 4 comments
Are there comfort beers like there are comfort foods? Maybe we should restructure our categorizations of beer based on how you feel as you have one. This beer surely would make many lists of beers that imitate how a heavy fall sweater feels, how a basement rec room cocoons. • The only brewery I …
