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Almost every supermarket in the UK has a craft beer (and real ale) offering these days. From Aldi to Asda the selection is varied and often seasonally changing. Many of my most popular beer reviews are of beers you can readily find in your Big Tesco or local Lidl. Which makes sense to me! Not everyone goes into a craft bottle shop, but every has … Continue reading The Great Supermarket Craft Beer Index
Scotland’s famous Vault City brewery is best known for their exotic and wild sour beers, with all sorts of flavour combinations available. However, they are also gaining a reputation for equally whacky stouts. Today’s beer review is of ‘Mini Crunch’ a 6% ABV, toned down version of a previously released beer, titled ‘Crunch’ which came in at a hefty 15% ABV. Naturally, this is Vault … Continue reading Beer Review: Mini Crunch – Vault City
Today’s review sees a return to my favourite part of the blog; supermarket own-brand craft beer. The coin toss of whether it will be tasty or terrible is usually weighted to the latter, but sometimes there is pleasant surprise thrown into the mix. ‘Gold Ale’ comes from the aisles of discount supermarket icons Lidl, under their Hatherwood own-brand label. As you can imagine, it is … Continue reading Beer Review: Gold Ale – Hatherwood (Lidl)
Just before I left the country, and this blog, for two months I had started work on the Great Supermarket Craft Beer Index. It entails the difficult task of of drinking lots of beer and reviewing it, to make people’s lives easier when it comes to supermarket craft beer decision making. Naturally, since I’ve been away, the supermarkets have broadly updated their range resulting in … Continue reading Beer Review: Northern Rising – Northern Monk x Timothy Taylors
Those of you who have kept up with my blog over the years will not be surprised by the large breaks between posting periods that regularly occurs. This time my reason for an almost 4 month hiatus is I was walking the length of Romania from mid August to October with my brother. 1400km to be precise! And while we had a wonderful time not … Continue reading Beer Review: Pale Ale – Cearfisă (Romanian Craft Beer)
Today’s review is a brewery back to back, with another beer from Gran Canarian based brewers Jaira. ‘Seaclouds’ is a Vienna style lager, and so typically features a darker colour, when compared to your more commonplace lager styles, while also having a slight maltier sweetness to it and often a toasted quality to the flavour too. The name ‘Seaclouds’ has been given to the beer … Continue reading Beer Review: Seaclouds – Jaira Cerveza Artesana
Like much of Spain, the Canary Islands are not particularly known for their craft beer. While you won’t ever find a artisanal beer, as they call craft in Spain, on the taps of your typical bar it appears, in Gran Canaria at least, that you can find local breweries on the supermarket shelves. Today’s review comes from Jaira, a brewery based in the capital of … Continue reading Beer Review: Buchito – Jaira Cerveza Artesana
Every once in a while a beer comes along that instantaneously grabs your attention. It isn’t from a flash, hyped up brewery and it doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg either. Much like my, oddly popular, review of Duff beer, it can be found gracing the hallowed halls of a supermarket. This beer, however, was not purchased due to a novelty connection with … Continue reading Beer Review: Cerveza – HiperDino
I am currently on the gorgeous island of Gran Canaria, where my Mum is from, for her undisclosed milestone birthday. My Auntie also likes a craft beer or two and has bought me a couple of her recent favourites from her local SPAR supermarket. The two she picked up for are both from DouGall’s brewery, which is a Spanish brewery (or cerveceria if we want … Continue reading Beer Review: Tres Mares – DouGall’s
I recently posted my review of Lidl’s own brand Porter on my Instagram. I had a lovely comment from a fellow beer enthusiast telling me to try today’s beer, as they considered it much tastier. Specially Selected Coffee Stout (catchy name right?) is from discount supermarket chain rivals Aldi. It’s brewed for them by regional brewers Hall & Woodhouse who have been around since 1777! … Continue reading Beer Review: Specially Selected Coffee Stout – Aldi
There are worse problems to have than needing to drink more beer. However, I do need to drink some more otherwise I’ve got no reviews to post! Thankfully, I have some brews in the cupboard. One of which is this Cosmic Drop from the “not so craft” Beavertown, who were bought by Heineken a while back now. There are a few different versions of Cosmic … Continue reading Beer Review: Cosmic Drop (Berry Punch) – Beavertown
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