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 23 and a Siren call of Summer
There’s still no concordance with The ‘official’ Beer Hawk tasting video, the team today are opening a bottle of Dry Hopped Anchor Steam Beer, the bottle I got on Day 19, instead […]
Day 22 – Yorkshire Yankee
If this Advent Calendar were a game of snap, playing against Beer Hawk, then I wouldn’t be winning very often! The good people commenting on the daily Beer Hawk YouTube Video are enjoying a […]
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 20 – V for Victory again.
Back on the same footing as the official Beer Hawk Advent Calendar today. We both got Victory Beer Vital IPA. Although it’s the second beer from this Pennsylvania, USA, brewery it’s a […]
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 […]