Looking back over 2011, its been a good year in the real and craft ale scene at all levels, local, regional and national. Nationally the craft and real ale scene has bucked the general downturn in beer sales over the last couple of years and new breweries are still being created and existing ones expanding [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Review of the Year – The Pub Scene in Calderdale
Posted: 22nd December 2011 by admin in WritingTags: ale, brighouse, calderdale, dirty dicks, hebden bridge, hipperholme, lewins, pubs, ring o bells, sowerby bridge
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Caldercask – Winter 2011 – State of Play at CAMRA
Posted: 20th December 2011 by admin in Caldercask, WritingTags: Abbeydale, Acorn, Black Sheep, Brass Monkey, CAMRA, Cask Marque, copper dragon, Craft Ale, elland, greene king, Halifax Steam, Molson Coors, real ale, Salamander, sharps, SIBA, thwaites
This article is a re-edit of two previous articles I wrote for Pubpaper, but targeted at CAMRA members. You can find the original articles here and here. The PDF of the published magazine can be found here The world of real ale is reaching the crossroads. We have travelled far enough up the road that [...]
Pubpaper 637 – Reasons to be cheerful – Sheffield Tap, Brewdog Beers and Lewins
Posted: 18th December 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: Brewdog, dark star, espresso, san miguel, sheffield tap, stout, summer wine brewery, thornbridge
The Sheffield Tap is located on the platform at the City railway station, and is becoming a mecca for real ale and craft beer fans across the area. The 10 cask pumps and 12 keg pumps without a mainstream beer in sight is the main reason, however the collection over 200 bottled beers is an [...]
Pubpaper 635 – A repost to last week and the fine line before becoming a beer bore.
Posted: 7th December 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: beer, beer blogger, CAMRA, carling, carlsberg, cidre, fosters, real ale, stella, summer wine brewery, thornbridge
Last weeks column drew a mixed reception when published online, with disagreement from one of the bigger online beer writers, who won “beer blogger of the year” recently as well as having several published books to his name, telling me to “stop worrying about what other people drink”. I also received a text message from [...]
Pubpaper 634 – Bland Mainstream Beers
Posted: 1st December 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: beer, Brewdog, carling, Craft Ale, distillery, marketing, real ale
After a having guests over for dinner this weekend, I was left with a couple of cans of Carling in the fridge the following day. Not a beer I’d normally spending money, yours or mine on, I wondered if the product had actually developed a flavour of any description. The answer is a still a [...]