Standing outside everything looks a bit black. Dull and black. Like a big black metal box looming over you. It’s sort of there and not there at the same time. There are […]
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Lemke am Alex, Berlin
Brauhaus Lemke style theirselves as Berlin’s first craft brewer, I’m not going to argue with that. They’ve currently got three premises in Berlin; Brauhaus Lemke am Hackeschen Mark is the original brewery […]
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 […]
Leeds Beer Week 2016
What’s all this Leeds Beer Week thing then? If I’m honest I might not get to know, it’s nearly half way through and I’m still in deepest Dorset sampling the local beers and […]
The Cats Pyjamas, Headingley
I was sent an invitation, via Twitter message, to visit this place when it first opened. Sometime in late 2015, I think? I usually don’t rise to that sort of thing, unless […]
Craft Beer OR just JDW exposing themselves?
I was somewhat bemused to see this laminated flyer in a local Wetherspoons, the one in the concourse at Leeds station, which is probably my favourite JDW in Leeds. A proper station […]
Brew-haus, Bradford and Omar’s
The last pub visited on our toby round Bradford, with a similar name to the last post, got the same verdict and I reckon Brew-haus is just another attempt to follow a […]
The Beer House Bradford
After two stops in The Record Café plus a couple of other really good places, it was clear that anywhere else we visited would have to be at the top of their […]
Left Bank Beer Festival, in Manchester?
If I’m honest, Manchester is a place I’ve never really got to grips with. I’ve been through it more times than I care to remember. I’ve spent plenty time at The Crown […]
The Record Café, Bradford.
Next up on our Saturday afternoon tour of Bradford was The Record Café and If I’m honest, I was a bit sceptical, a record shop, with beer? Doesn’t just sound right does […]
