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Perth Beer Trip Part 1…

The first day of the Perth Beer Trip 2010 started by heading down to Fremantle, a vibrant suburb south of Perth that is famous for being the main shipping centre of WA and home to quite a few breweries, the largest of them being Little Creatures. The first port of call was Monks Brewery (http://themonk.com.au/) [...] [...]

Episod 01

Episod 01: I första episoden av Sveriges bryggradio bjuder vi på en intervju med Svante Ekelin. En välkänd figur inom hembryggarkretsar. Vi pratar om hembryggningens utveckling i Sverige från 1980-talet och framåt. Svante berättar om hur de första säckarna malt … Läs mer [...]

A West Side Story

The Beer Hound and Beer-Boy Wonder attended the Draught Masters in Perth recently.You will be happy to hear that a couple of Beer Ambassadors took out the Victorian state finals for the World Draught Masters. Which meant a couple of flights to the Aust… [...]

Part two of our Terminal Brewhouse tastings…  Again,…

Part two of our Terminal Brewhouse tastings…  Again, HUGE thanks to our buddy Joel (@introvertedone on Twitter). He dropped off two growlers of beer from Terminal Brewhouse in Chattanooga, TN…their Oatmeal Stout and this, the IPA (named Magnum… [...]

Att kunna säga vad man tycker om öl och ändå bli förstådd

Jag har funderat på en sak. I Sverige, så åtnjöt jag förmånen att vara omringad av människor som kände mig sedan långt tillbaka och också kände till mitt intresse för öl och ölkultur sedan många, många år tillbaks.Här i US and A är j… [...]

Homebrew Adventure Day#29 – An Interview with Shane Welch of Sixpoint Craft Ales

Photo Courtesy of The Full Pint New York (specifically Red Hook, Brooklyn) is lucky enough to house Sixpoint Craft Ales, a brewery with a full line of interesting and tasty craft beer output. Shane Welch is brewmaster, founder, president, and owner of Sixpoint and was nice enough to answer some questions that I have come [...] [...]

La Trappe Pack

Bien, en esta vez no habrá nota de cata, ya que quiero mostrarles lo que conseguí husmeando en las góndolas de mi principal proveedor de “pan líquido”…Ayer por la mañana me dirigí al Carrefour de Av San Martin y Gral Paz y en la sección Ce… [...]

Back to Belgium

Oggi è il mio ultimo giorno lavorativo prima delle ferie estive. E stanotte parto in direzione Nord: torno in Belgio, dopo un’assenza di 15 mesi. Sarò solo con la mia auto, e tutta la voglia di visitare nuovi posti e assaggiare nuove birre e delizios… [...]

Beer challenge

We’re making a ‘challenging’ beer today. Not that our beer is usually dull, in fact we’re rather proud of it.But in common with lots of other brewers, in order to sell enough beer to buy more malt, pay the rent and get the occasional tin of cat fo… [...]

Forays in Brewing

Sitting in my garage, upon the precipice of the old freezer, is my first brew. 40 glorious pints of East Kent Golding’s IPA!At least I hope it is…Having not yet tasted the brew, I have no real way of knowing what is in there. Am I secretly brewing on… [...]

What’s In A Name?

What’s in a name when it comes to christening beers? A hell of a lot if you ask most brewers.  And some of them have gone clean round the bend, if you ask me.  I don’t have a PhD from Cambridge, but I’d like to respectfully request a little mor… [...]

Cerveses Ausesken

Cerveses Ausesken es una nueva microcervecería ubicada en Olost (Osona-Cataluña)Van a empezar esta andadura en los negocios con dos variedades de cervezas:La Blanca con 5,3º es una ale de estilo belga con una carga de trigo sin maltear.La otra cerve… [...]

Great British Beer Festival

Well, what can I say! Thousands of people, hundreds of beers… could it ever be a bad day?My trip to the GBBF at Earl’s Court yesterday afternoon was my second trip to the festival, and it hadn’t changed much. The same blend of wacky characters, bad t… [...]

Saison Dupont Biologique – fantastique!

Inhandlat på Alko i Helsingfors: Saison Dupont Biologique.Grumlig, ljusgul vätska. Skummet är intensivt vitt och explosionsartat, men lägger sig snabbt.I doften finns råa växtsafter och sötmandel; äppelvariationer – gröna äpplen, men också… [...]

Three Penny Tap Room – Montpelier, VT

We stopped at the Three Penny Tap Room in Montpelier, Vermont on our way to the Vermont Brewers Festival in Burlington, Vermont.  There has been nothing but great buzz about the Three Penny Tap Room so we had to go see for ourselves. Montpelier turned out to have a quaint downtown full of shops, restaurants [...] [...]

Beer-cation in the OBX

My family and I made our yearly trek to the Outer Banks with plenty of beer in hand. That didn’t stop us from exploring the local flavors. On our first day, we stopped at Uncle Ike’s for a delicious lunch…. [...]

Wandering Aengus Wanderlust

Sour and effervescent, this cider is a wake-up call for those that very wrongly assume cider is simply easy drinking alcoholic apple juice for folks that dislike beer. Its lengthy dryness unfolds sip through swallow with a tart apple flavor always at t… [...]

Wandering Aengus Bloom

The deep honeyed fruit flavors here make for a dangerously drinkable cider. Try pairing this with almost any vanilla heavy dessert for a match made in heaven. Beneath the sweet whole sits a nice sharpness that prevents the cider from becoming too weigh… [...]

Champion Beer of Britain announced!

It seems like all the judges agreed on that among the 8 finalists, Castle Rock Harvest Pale, stood out a was the winner.Press release from CAMRA:Harvest Pale, which has an ABV of 3.8%, is described in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 2010 as ‘blonde and refresh… [...]

One of my favourites

It’s an ale I’ve written about on a few occasions and it’s an ale that has never disappointed so I’m glad to see that castle Rock Harvest Pale has today been named as CAMRA Champion Beer of Great Britain. Well done Castle Rock. [...]