Posts Tagged: England
Another Reason To Not Visit A Wetherspoon Pub
Posted by on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 in - 9 comments
Pete and Jeff and most of the other British bloggers I follow regularly trash the JD Wetherspoon chain. I may never have the chance to go to one but this story from Portsmouth, England gives us all another reason never go if you could: • Two Marines were refused entry to their local pub the day …
Paul Visits The Belgian Monk In Norwich, Norfolk
Posted by on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 in - 1 comment
There are a couple of areas in the East of England that resemble Holland landscape-wise. ‘The Fens’ being one, and The Norfolk Broads being the other. In fact the Dutch helped drain and reclaim much land in these regions, evidence of which can still be seen in the shape of long, wide, straight …
Is He Really The Last Master Cooper In Britain?
Posted by on Thursday, January 22, 2009 in - 8 comments
The CBC has a good story about Alastair Simms, the only working master cooper left in Britain. I wonder why they would be carrying the story of a wooden barrel maker from another land? There is a certain romance for such things of the old country still in Canada but we still have coopers in Canada …
Porter 2006, Burton Bridge Brewery, Burton-Upon-Trent
Posted by on Thursday, January 8, 2009 in - 3 comments
Time. For the most part beer's enemy is time, specially for a beer with only 4.5%. But in 2000, as I've mentioned a few times, I clearly remember having a Burton Bridge Porter that was overwhelmingly bitter and pleasantly foul due no doubt to its utter mishandling and disregard. Some time ago I …
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 …
