Built in 1860 by the Craster family, it’s now the only smokehouse left in the small seaside village of Craster, Northumbria. Robson’s took over the business in 1906 and their renowned Kippers […]
Day 24 of Advent, and I got a dark beer at last!
When this is posted it will be December 25th so it’s a big Happy Christmas to everyone. Anyway back to the beer, day 24 and I got a dark beer at last […]
Day 21 – Is Santa a Rogue?
Another deviation from the official Beer Hawk Advent Calendar! Looks like I should have a bottle from Flying Dog. Instead I’ve got a bottle of Rogue Santa’s Private Reserve. Try as hard […]
Day 19 – Still no dark beers and I’m Steamin’.
Seventh time in nineteen days that I’ve had a different bottle/can to the one being tasted in the video for the official Beer Hawk case! The most annoying thing being they’ve got […]
Advent Calendar Day 17 and it’s all a conundrum?
I didn’t open yesterday’s beer, not because I didn’t fancy it, more like, I went out to collect a parcel at at two o’clock and didn’t get back in till gone half eight. […]
Day 16 – Never been done before!
Todays Advent Calendar beer was created (2008) specifically as an accompaniment to food by Spanish brewers Damm and Ferran Adriá, the chef patron of the intergalactic restaurant that was elBulli who at […]
Day 15 and I’m stuck in Belgium ???
Day 15 of the Beer Hawk advent calendar sees another offering from a Cistercian Order of Strict Observance, this time it’s a Westmalle Tripel from the Trappist Abbey of Westmalle, Belgium. It’s […]
Advent Calendar Day 14 – Hopefully Carlsberg UK will be bringing it to a supermarket near you?
Total disaster with this one! I nicked the rim of the bottle opening it. No one’s fault, these things just happen from time to time. I think there was only one clean […]
Day 13 and I’ve not got the Monk on!
And it’s another European beer; Belgium; Trappist – Rochefort 8, a beer brewed in a brewery associated with the Abbey of Our Lady of Saint-Remy, Belgium, a Trappist monastery, sub-category of the […]
Day 12 – Kölsch
Opening the window for Day 12 on the Beer Hawk Advent Calendar revealed a bottle of Früh Kölsch. Now I know people have recently been slating me for banging the Craft beer (or not) drum, but I […]