Beer
Brewery Spotlight Hook Norton
♠ Hello and welcome to Brewery Spotlight Hook Norton one of Britain’s older traditional tower breweries since 1849 the Head Brewer is JW Clarke great great grandson of Jim Harris founder! A regular pilgrimage for myself since the early 1990s and an interlayering of top old favourites to new wave beers containg oats and…
Read MoreHome Pub Card Game Giggles
Welcome to The Queen’s Legges now open so you can pop up and get a drink Pour yaself something chill with another on the side & settle in for half an hour’s silliness with the 5 very drunk ppl in the corner playing a jolly card game 🍹😅🃏🃏 Sometimes laughter is all…
Read MoreBest Cheap Summer Red Wine & Ale
♠ Right Ok so let’s fire up the barbie, warm the grill 🥩🍖 and crack open the reds and the blondes!! First up two magnificent red wines good with everything and friends (if you’re a good cook) let’s see what we get for £4.79 and £6.15, thaz right!! 🍷🍷👇🏼 Plus why wine is…
Read MoreHome Pub Eve Rock Classics
Right!! Good evenin’ all and first up let’s pop down the Redders 🦁 for a swift half, who says home is boring? Homè is where the hearth (rug) is and of course fridge/cellar/tail cabinet so pour yourself a good long one (don’t we like a loooooong one? 🤭) and mosey on down bcos tonight I’ve…
Read MoreBarrel versus Bottle
Now I ask you plain which is the poor relation? Barrel beer or bottle? And before you say I know the answer stop awhile and hear me bcos it’s not untrue for any of my favourite British ales including Hook Nortons of Banbury and Mauldons of Suffolk! Let’s investigate the claim 🍺🍺 I’d…
Read MoreSussex Shopkeeper Historic Pubs
Hello & welcome to my historic epic trip set around olde shops and pubs in the area of East Hoathly in East Sussex where the diarist Thomas Turner kept shop in the mid 1700s Turner wrote of village affairs and drunken bouts 1754 – 65 before marrying his second wife Molly Hicks who put paid…
Read MoreProper Big Job Cornish IPAs
Hello! 🍻 how do my lover? Two topping chart busting Cornish IPA bottled beers today from St Austell Brewery 🍺 Proper Job 5.5% and Big Job 7.2% you know it makes sense! Now today I’m very relaxed and discussing not only these two beers in great depth but other similar beers you may well enjoy…
Read MoreMy Week in Kent Beer
Welcome to my week in Kent beers and ciders, March! 11 beers and 2 local ciders in 10 very local Romney Marsh area pubs using the power of artesian well water which I call artisan water Ferry inn, Isle of Oxney Ewe & Lamb, Rolvenden Flying Horse, Boughton Aluph White Horse, Chilham King’s…
Read MoreBottled Beer To Pump
Good evening! Tonight I explore two British blonde beers, one from Cornwall and one from Wales, similar in style but achieving different results So first up or thirst up is St Austell Brewery’s Proper Job IPA at 5.5% And next up is Welsh SA Gold 4.7% from Brains of Cardiff, a well structured…
Read MoreBest Brit Cheap Bottle Beer
Yes, that’s right, it’s lurvely!! 😇🥰🤗 🐔🍺🐔🍺🐔🍺🐔🍺 So, let’s cut to the nub!! You can’t fault this im-peck-able ale 🐔🍺 for £1.40 a bottle, it has clean hoppy bite, lingering finish, good looks, tight crisp integrity, in fact it is just like me 🤣🤣 Buy & enjoy with confidence! Morland “Old Session Hen”…
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