Tennent's/C&C taking full ownership of Drygate, set up as joint venture with Williams Bros in 2014.
No, I wouldn't be in a place that served beer from drainpipes in the first place.
Thinking about how I usually stick to the classic local styles in Lagerland, but I would always order a new “extra hoppy” beer if they offered one. I probably wouldn’t if they called it an IPA. Funny how the mind works.
I'm guessing you didn't like it?
I think they were at the bitter end of things back in the day. Master brew has 35 IBU in a 3.5% beer. Sheps got PGIs for Kentish ale and Kentish strong ale, with both having bitter in the description.
If Scottish beer was supposedly lightly hopped because of the distance from the hop growing regions, why don’t Shepherd Neame make the bitterest beer in the UK?
Yes I thought Red n Black was very interesting, made the shortlist but not quite the top three :)
Hidden sugars in hops? Another driver of hop creep perhaps. Interesting article (open access)🍻
-The underhopped brown bitter of the past has mostly gone, replaced by “red ale”.
- Lots of new world hops, also a lot of the new wave English hops
- No sludge thank Christ
Last night I finished ticking the 30 Wetherspoons festival beers and my selection of the best three is:
- Acorn Vanilla Porter
- Kirkstall Howe Sound
- Elgoods Shug Monkey
The beer quality was generally pretty good with only a couple I thought were actually bad.
Never fear that Scotland could run out of cringe breweries.
The Catechism of Cliche is still in effect.
Q. What is the name for a fire large enough to require the intervention of the fire brigade?
A. A blaze.
Q. What do firefighters do to such a conflagration?
A. They tackle it.
How the as-splice creates misleading headlines. In fact the train cancellations and evacuations happened several hours before any building collapse. @bbcnews.bsky.social
Sounds like only I&G brand was purchased. If anyone wants the Inveralmond brands with or without the brewery they need to get in touch with the administrators FTI Consulting asap.
Spice bags taste better in Ireland. They don't travel well.
Half way through the #Spoonsfest beers with 14 out of 30 ticked, Elgoods Shug Monkey is the top beer so far despite the more than dubious name. A basic bitter elevated to transcendence by pungent yeast esters and an astringent, addictive bitterness.
Bags of the world, spice up your life
People are now planning holidays to Ireland just for spice bags.
Predictably, Brodog treated the staff they sacked in a typically shabby fashion.
I suppose it would help to be able to go head to head with Heineken/Beavertown and ABI/Camden on bars too. Although I can't see Williams Bros being happy about it.
Tennents have been brewing for Brodog for a while I'm told
We used to say Germany didn’t have national brands. Not true these days.
Part of the endless quest to launch a product with a better margin than commodity beer, which only really worked with the Premium-Pilsner boom while it lasted. I suppose Brauwelt or the business pages in newspaper archives might have something about it.
George Thompson, talks about his time at the Drybrough in Edinburgh, including continuous fermentation and brewing with raw barley.
youtu.be/08_Rd6xhxiw
I was wondering on those dramatic figures whether Heineken was supplying Ireland from their UK breweries for a while.
3 thoughts on this from @laurenleek.eu.
1. Pubs close because of pubcos.
2. "Save the British pub" policies stuff cash into those same pubcos not "punters".
3. Reform wants to increase child poverty to do this.
(4 It's brilliant and via @benansell.bsky.social )
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
If you read one article on pubs this week, make it this one.
“Third places: the pubs, cafés, and piazzas where community happens … when they vanish, trust collapses, civic life withers, democracy frays… who is dismantling these third spaces, and why?”
This article is written for what they call “Low information consumers” who still think Brewdog is two guys making beer in their garage and never consider how that can possibly be true if they're in every branch of tesco. yes dave infante wrote this five years ago, they didn't read that.
Lucky you.
Why would ABI launch a direct competitor to Stella Artois? refreshingbeer.blogspot.com/2014/03/heve...
