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
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 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
It’s been a minute since my last review. I haven’t been too busy, quite the opposite actually. If you follow my Instagram, you may have seen me enjoying a beer on the beach in Port De Soller on the gorgeous island of Mallorca. I was there for a friends wedding and decided to leave the laptop at home and due to hating typing on my … Continue reading Beer Review: Tank Petrol V2 (Faith in Futures) – Northern Monk
You might (or might not) have seen my post yesterday where I have compiled a list of every single, to my knowledge, craft beer and ale available currently in all the UK supermarkets. You might have also noticed that I haven’t reviewed many of the currently in stock selection. Very poor form, I know. Today’s we are going to make a start on rectifying that, … Continue reading Beer Review: Peanut Butter & Jam – Northern Monk x Toast
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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
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