Archive for November, 2011

Arrogant Bastard Ale

Walking too and from work the last couple of days got me thinking about Snickers…and beer.  Yup, the chocolate bar formerly known as Marathon.  It wasn’t the perceived energy boost that got me thinking, but one of their advertisements.  The star footballer with pin-up girlfriend at his side, sat in the Chairman’s office negotiating his next contract [ READ MORE ]

Food and Beer Matching

Food and beer, beer and food, there are plenty of eating establisments that are trail blazing, add to that a fair few people talking about matching the two and I reckon a lot more with a watchful eye on the developments to see how far this will go.  I’m open to the idea and have [ READ MORE ]

Ilkley Brewery Company Craft-Keg Launch

A brief bloggage on the Ilkley Brewery Company‘s craft-kegged beer launch at North Bar Leeds last night.  The place was packed, this may have been typical for Wednesday night, but there was also a strong showing from the Ilkley Brewery crew, easily picked out of the crowd in their branded rugby shirts and the odd [ READ MORE ]

Good Morning, How May I Appear to Help You?

Choice is important.  No-one really wants to eat or drink the same thing over and again.  Many of us take this a step further and crave the new and interesting.  We look to combine food and drink which compliment each other.  Pairing food and drink is nothing revolutionary, but right now in the beer-sphere there [ READ MORE ]

Optic Nerve Pale Ale

Following the debut Leeds Homebrew meeting a few weeks ago, I caught up with fellow homebrewer Rob Derbyshire of HopZine and dropped heavy hints in order to coercively obtain a couple of bottles of his latest brew.  Rob being the nice chap that he is pretended he hadn’t seen straight through my obvious suggestions and [ READ MORE ]

The Grove Inn, HD1

My extended absence from this particular beer-paradise has been circumstantial and I had all but given up on visiting during 2011.  Enter stage right @GeekLeeds.  I met Gary (Geek Leeds blog) at the IPA Day back in August, Mr Foleys was packed and through the ‘random factor’ I happened to talk to him and as [ READ MORE ]

Supermarket Sweep – Part 5

Fear not, this is the last in this series of posts.  I drove a different way home from work one evening last month, well 10 miles out of my way in truth, but my nearest Waitrose store is in Otley.  I wanted to see what they had in the way of beer so I can [ READ MORE ]

Armistice Day 11:00am 11/11/2011

A short post to reflect on two short minutes of remembrance. I take the annual opportunity to clear my mind of the buzz all around me and remember those from any walk-of-life who have lost their lives during the many conflicts past and present. Two minutes to symbolise the 20 million (military personnel) who lost [ READ MORE ]

I Will Follow You into the Dark

I’m enjoying my beer and relaxing into it a little more each month.  I have re-read a couple of my earlier posts and see my initial instincts were to hoard my beer and make sure nobody was looking before enjoying them all to myself.  I’ve always been aware of the merits of sharing and as [ READ MORE ]

Session 57: Lock Stock and Two NHS Toilet Cubicles

This months Session (57th in the series) is hosted by Steve Lamond over at the ‘Beers I’ve Known‘ blog.  He’s chosen the topic Beery Confessions: Guilty Secrets/Guilty Pleasure Beer, which can cover many different playing fields and will no doubt cross boundaries that were not intended to be crossed. The beer career I am most [ READ MORE ]

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