Posted in Beer, Drink Reviews on Dec 12th, 2007
Purchase Location: My Local Supermarket
Serving: 500ml bottle
Session suggestion: Medium-Good (4-5 bottles, if you can hack it!)
ABV: 4.7%
This is part of my Beer booty experience at my local supermarket, - I’ve picked up some Ruddles Rhubarb because they guy next to me mused it then added 6 bottles to his trolley, “he’s not having it all, the swine!” [...]
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Posted in Beer, Drink Reviews on Dec 11th, 2007
Purchase Location: My Local Supermarket
Serving: 500ml bottle
Session suggestion: Medium (3 bottles)
ABV: 5.4%
Shepherd Neame oldest brewery in Britain, a well established name amongst pubs these days, walk into any Wetherspoons, Green King or a Punch Tavern pub and you’re sure to find a Shepherd Neame brew on tap.
It’s worth noting then, I’m not in a pub, I’ve [...]
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Posted in BITE on Dec 10th, 2007
Another busy week for us. The forums are flying along now, with over 1,000 posts in just three weeks - amazing! This week we had 73 votes on the polls, the most we’ve had so far - so word is slowly but surely getting round..
We asked whether you’d like to review beers and breweries as [...]
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Posted in Drink Reviews on Dec 7th, 2007
It was a Friday afternoon, we had unfortunately not been sent any freebies this week to drink trial in the office and blog about so we decided to head on down to our local O’Neills. I have seen the marketing campaigns, tried in vain to contact a Guinness Brand Manager via numerous methods - including [...]
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Posted in Beer, Competitions, Drink Reviews on Dec 4th, 2007
Purchase Location: Bateman Brewery online shop
( www.bateman.co.uk )
It’s that time of year again, no I don’t just mean Christmas, I mean winter warmer ale season. This year I am sampling the Bateman Breweries ‘Rosey Nosey’. English masters of brewing seasonal ales, Batemans winter warmer suggests that it “Compliments any Turkey”… well, with this in my hand [...]
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