No visit to Dorset is complete without a visit to the sea side gem that is Weymouth, a town of three thirds; a lovely sweeping beach and promenade with Georgian esplanades and […]
The Globe, Weymouth
The Ropemakers, Bridport, Dorset.
This would be the best pub in Bridport, if it wasn’t a Palmers Brewery tied house. It’s the only pub I’ve been in that has the full range of Palmer’s ales on […]
The Tiger Inn, Bridport.
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright, A shining star, in a Palmers night. Six cask ales loom into sight, Doom Bar being the only …? I couldn’t think of a non vulgar, rhyming ending, […]
Palmers Brewery, it’s not really a Broadchurch in West Bay.
For the past six years I’ve spent a few August weeks in Dorset, specifically West Bay, the harbour village for the market town of Bridport. If you’ve never been I would thoroughly […]
Can the Can?
As I walked round Leeds International Beer Festival it was apparent, but not surprising, that there were more keg beers than cask ales. What caught my attention more, was the number of […]
New Zealand Craft Beer Collective
I first encountered draught beer from New Zealand during London Beer Week back in February when there was a New Zealand brewers tap take over in Clerkenwell Craft Beer Co. I tried […]
Mondo
There were quite a few, to me, newer breweries at Leeds International Beer Festival. One which caught my eye, not least for the distinctive blue logo was Mondo Brewing Co. They hail from Battersea, […]
Stew and Oyster’s latest venture in Boston Spa
Ten o’clock Thursday 9th September saw the long awaited opening of Leeds based Stew & Oyster’s latest venture in Boston Spa. Unfortunately they weren’t quite ready when a friend wandered down to […]
Leeds International Beer Festival, Sunday 6th September 2015.
Owing to the hectic work and social calendar of The Clifford Champion Beer Festival Beer team, it was difficult finding which of the six sessions of this four day event all three […]
Northern Monk Brew Co gets Canned!
At 1900 precisely, on Thursday 3rd September Northern Monk Brew Co beers went on release in cans across the UK, so along with fellow Northern Monk Brew Co Brethren, I assembled in the Chapter House […]