The session, otherwise known as beer blogging Friday (I know, it’s Saturday, I’m late, deal with it), is a once a month gathering of the beer bloggers of the world to get together and talk about beer. Each month there is a specific topic. This month the session is being hosted by Oliver of literatureandlibation.com. He […]
YouTube pranks
I known I haven’t written much lately, but to be honest I havent had anything to say and, as my mother always told me, “if you can’t say anything useful, then don’t say anything at all”. I really still don’t have anything to say, but I have found this video being banded around the internet. […]
Golden Pints 2013
I have been writing this blog for a few years now, but this year is the first year in which I feel that I have been varied enough in the beers that I have tried to justify writing up the list of my Golden Pints . Sure in past years I have drunk a lot of […]
Showdown? Draw!
This is a review of the Classic Beer Holster by Great Gadgets. From the off I’m going to be clear that I have received a Beer Holster from Great Gadgets for the purposes of this review. Now, I’m no fool, (I heard that!) and I realise what time of year it is and why I’m […]
Mermaid Porter
Lately I have steered away from writing posts about a single beer because, lets face it, there are so many blogs out there which do that better than I. I did have to mention this one though, simply because it was so expensive (expensive at least by my rather fiscally limited standards). A few months […]
Beer Blast
I’ve just finished a book called Beer Blast which is easily summed up by the strapline on the cover: “The inside story of the brewing industry’s bizarre battles for your money”. Written by Philip Van Munching, whose family has been the American importers of Heineken until recently, he is in a great position to write […]
The final days of the Hop Pole Inn
The city of Bath is an expensive place, when working there it is impossible to find a cheap room to stay in and therefore most tradesmen find refuge in hotels in the suburbs or in nearby towns. For me it was the latter. We were staying in the quiet village of Limpley Stoke at the […]
Why do we get it so wrong in the UK?
I have just returned from a work trip out to Germany. In many ways it was exactly like you would expect. To be honest about it everything was well organised, efficient and clean. This applied to everything we came in contact with when we were out there, including the pub. Zur Gemütlichkeit isn’t really what […]
The Session #81 – Scary Beer Feminists
I’d like to start this post off by saying that my fingers smell like plastic and I have no idea why. Whether this is a good omen for writing a quality post or not, I don’t know, but in the interests of full disclosure I thought I’d better put it out there. Beer and women. […]
Nodiadau ar y twll cachu gogoneddus: Abertawe
I apologize in advance to the people of Swansea, I’m sure you like living in there and that’s good for you, I on the other hand have quite a different view of your town. Also, for anyone who can’t be bothered to read all this, it can be summarised as Swansea: ugh! The Celt Experience: […]