It is very easy to get trapped into a cycle of visiting the same pubs repeatedly, for most people this is not an issue, in fact it is behaviour like this which keeps many local pubs profitable. Two or three pints does not sound much, but repeated 2-3 times a week plus a couple of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘real ale’
Pubpaper 679 – Real Ale = Real Money in the Till
Posted: 15th October 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: brighouse, calderdale, Cider, Halifax, pub, real ale, sowerby bridge
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Pubpaper 671 – The Works Ale House and the Rushbearing Festival
Posted: 21st August 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: puzzle hall inn, real ale, rushbearing, sowerby bridge, Works
Travelling from country to country with long periods away from home were all part of a successful career in the hospitality and event industry for Sara-Jo Cooper 8 years ago. However part of her yearned to spend more time in her beloved Sowerby Bridge, an old ex industrial Yorkshire town in the Calder Valley. With [...]
Pubpaper 667 – Changing Favourite Breweries
Posted: 19th July 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: craft beer, magic rock, mallinsons, real ale, summer wine brewery
We all have our favourite breweries. For mainstream lager drinkers they will be the likes of Molson Coors, Carlsberg or InBev who produce products such as Stella, Carlsberg, Coors and Carling. If you like real ale, but stick to the larger brands, your choice may well be Timothy Taylor, Black Sheep or Copper Dragon if [...]
Pubpaper 658 – Small Dogs and Brewsters v Big Buillies and Lawyers
Posted: 17th May 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: Brewdog, diageo, heineken, Hops, inbev, mallinsons, real ale, stella
In the world of brewing there a 3 broad camps in which a brewery can fall into, multinationals like InBev and Heineken, large national brewers like Greene King, Marsons, Black Sheep and Wells, and then you have smaller operations, brewers like York Brewery, Mallinsons, Magic Rock and Thornbridge. Brewdog just make this last category, but [...]
Pubpaper 651 – “Hybrid” beers continued and more possible Greene King dross?
Posted: 31st March 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: bridgehouse, greene king, hybrid beers, lager, real ale, rudgate, wharfdale
As anybody who has followed me in the past should know Greene King are not my favourite big brewer. In fact it is a brand I personally will not drink due to the blandness and inconsistency of the beer. Only a few months ago, I wrote about moving onto coffee when Greene King and Guinness [...]
Could Beer and Cider justify its own TV show?
Posted: 13th March 2012 by admin in WritingTags: beer, beer writers, Brewdog, CAMRA, food and drink, hardknott, real ale, TV show
It is not an overestimation that there are too many cooking shows on TV now, it wouldn’t even be an exaggeration that there are too many food channels. When I was at university and into the mid nineties two shows ruled the roost, Ready Steady Cook and Food and Drink, with the second being the [...]
Pubpaper 648 – Lagered beers and crossing the bridge with hybrid ales
Posted: 10th March 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: Brewdog, lager, real ale, thwaites meantime, william bros
In Britain, we can consider our history of beer drinking to go back 2000 years when the Romans brought mass production of beer to these isles. For all but 40 years of this history, one kind of beer has ruled, ale, the traditional mix of water, barley, hops and yeast. Lagered beers were the domain [...]
Pubpaper 647 – One Pint vs 36 Pints – The Pub Commitment
Posted: 4th March 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: beer rotation, Halifax, lewins, real ale
I enjoy my real ale and craft beers, so far this year I have tried approximately 40 different brews, of those stouts and porters make up over a quarter. The split between bottled and draught beer is roughly half. Sampling 12 different beers this past weekend helped add to this total. There is a definite [...]