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 16 – Never been done before!
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 […]
Advent Day 11 – Hop Devil!
Today Beer Hawk have Nøgne in their Day 11 Advent Calendar, whereas, for the fifth day out of eleven I have something entirely different to the beer they taste in their video […]
Day 10 – Japanese Rice Beer
No apologies today, I’ve been on the razzle since 1100hrs yesterday, apart from a brief respite in bed! A Japanese beer, had one before that my daughter bought me from M&S, and […]
Day 9 – Bellerose Bleu – Definitely Surfine
No AB-Inbev owned beers again today! It’s another independent supplied by trade only beer importer James Clay of Halifax. That’s the second one from them in the box, maybe they have a monopoly […]
Advent Calendar Day 8 – This is Craft!
So far as I can determine, there are no AB-Inbev ties with the brewer Evil Twin? I don’t think I have tried any of their beers before neither, despite them being highly […]
Advent Calendar Day 7 and it’s a Belgian beer.
Still no dark beer! It’s not craft beer neither! Not unless your definition of craft extends to a traditional Belgian brewer founded in 1791. Although the Pawel Kwak beer was only introduced […]
