I know they’re not really Magic, and there’s no Rocks, but when the wee fellah floating round in my glass started whispering things like, No more Cannonball Rich, No more Cannonball!’ I […]
A Day in Leicester with my Beer Blogging Heroes!
Leicester? Nothing wrong with it at all. Nice friendly folk. Clean and tidy for the most part. I couldn’t put my finger on it? Other than, it was a bit like their […]
The Golden Ball, Scarbro’
I don’t think I’ve blogged about a Sam Smith’s pub before. Not for any particular reason, there’s nothing wrong with their no frills, no nonsense, bargain basement priced, traditional sort of old […]
A Maltese brewer
One of the highlights of the week was meeting John Pullicino, brewer at Farson’s Cisk, and a lovely man. As we walked out of the brew house our guide, Isabelle, pointed out […]
Lord Chambray
Lord Chambray definitely has to go down as the brewery with the nicest, most glamorous, friendliest tour guide ever! Valentina was an absolute star, she really made us feel at home. She’s […]
The Brew, The Strand, Sliema – Malta’s first Brewpub
I stumbled into The Brew by accident. Like, I’ve been disappointed before with pubs whose nomenclature purported them to be brew pubs. Besides, most of the premises on the swish Sliema strand […]
Malta Part II – The Sun in Splendour and WMC’s
The Sun in Splendour Triq Ross, St Julians, promotes itself on the back of it’s quirky beer garden out the back. It’s also a very nice place to sit outside on the […]
Malta and The Pub
I was looking forward to going back to Malta after ten years absence, and hoping that, in terms of beer, things might have moved on a bit? It’s not that there aren’t any decent […]
The Otley Tap House
The Otley Tap House probably falls into the category of a micro pub, in so far as it hasn’t always been a pub. It was a shop until it opened in it’s […]
Beer Photography by Mark Newton
As part of Leeds Beer Week 2016 there is an official Beer Week photography exhibition celebrating the Yorkshire Beer Scene. Featuring imagery shot by Mark Newton the project focuses on the people that make […]