The Joy Of Beer

Another brief note to catch up on some beers that I have drunk recently.  I recently had a couple of bottles of Adnams “The Bitter” (4.5%).  I thoroughly enjoyed it – it’s a very good beer – lovely hoppy, malty smell, full of flavour, dry and bitter, and very refreshing.  There is a cask version [...]

Well I couldn’t resist going back to The Sportsman to sample some of the other beers in their beer festival.  The Greene King IPA (3.6%) was a good start.  This is a regularly available beer in The Sportsman, and has become the usual session bitter (which used to be Morland Bitter in the olden days).  [...]

Our local pub, The Sportsman in Reading, is having a bit of a beer festival at the moment – half a dozen cask ales – so we popped along yesterday evening for a couple of pre-dinner “sharpeners”.  Most of the beers are from the Greene King stable – some familiar ones like IPA, Abbot Ale [...]

Not much activity on the blog over the past few days.  This is mainly due to me being on a training course – with an exam at the end of it, so I’ve had to spend the evenings revising instead of writing blog posts.  Mind you, it is possible to revise while having a glass [...]

In my previous post a couple of days ago I mentioned the Brewers of Character Collection from Wychwood – a selection of 4 of Wychwood’s beers.  I’ve previously written about Hobgoblin and Circlemaster, so I thought I’d complete the set and mention the other two in the selection – Fiddler’s Elbow and Wychcraft. 
Fiddler’s Elbow (4.5%).  [...]

I’ve mentioned before that when we buy beer, we often buy the “selection packs” that are usually on offer from the supermarkets we buy from.  Actually, although I say “we”, it’s my wife Sarah who does the shopping, and she is really good at finding some out-of-the-ordinary beers, as well as some of the old [...]

I first heard of Belhaven beers about 30 years ago – this was in the days when you didn’t see beer very far away from where it was brewed – not decent beer anyway.  I was working with a bloke who hailed from St. Andrews in Scotland, and he sang the praises of his local [...]

I posted a few days ago (Three of a kind) about three beers that were all brewed at the Wychwood Brewery.  I came across a fourth the other day – another supermarket own brand, but also proudly proclaiming that it was brewed by Wychwood (and why not?).  This one is Morrisons Organic Golden Ale (5%).  [...]

I suspect that I was drinking this seasonal beer out of season, but recently I had a bottle of Thwaites Liberation Premium Ale.  This beer is normally available around Remembrance Day, and Thwaites donate a portion of the price of the beer to the Royal British Legion.  A worthy cause, and so far the donations [...]

I seem to have tried quite a few different beers recently.  This is mainly down to Sarah, who does the majority of the shopping online – so, depending on which supermarket she decides to use, and what beers they have on offer, I get a wide variety of beers to sample.  This is great – [...]