Review Posts

Bowland Brewery Tour-At-Home

Bowland Brewery is a Lancashire brewery founded in 2003; since 2015 it's been based in a magnificent former cotton mill in the heart of Clitheroe, which has become a real destination with a hotel, cinema, large delicatessen and frankly huge beer hall with beer taps as far as the eye can see and quite ...

Farsons Brewery

As well as brewing the ever-present Cisk, Farsons - Malta's oldest and largest brewery -produces a fair variety of other, less lager-y beers for thirsty islanders. Despite their flagship Cisk being a fairly standard European lager, the rest of their range has a lot more in common with the British beer tradition. This is perhaps ...

Cisk

Virtually everywhere I've travelled, there's a national - or at least regional - beer brand that you see everywhere; in every bar and restaurant, on every pub sign and every awning edge. It fascinates me that the UK seems to be almost unique in lacking that national brew. That national brew isn't always a ...

Antur Brew Co Tour-At-Home

It's fair to say that beer-wise, I was spoiled for the last few decades by living in London - a city that even now is knee-deep in new and exciting beers and breweries. Our new home in Wales may not have the sheer density of breweries, but it has a decent spread of ...

J P Wiser's 18 Year Old

J. P. Wiser's have been making whisky in Ontario since before Canada was even a country, and as is traditional for any distillery with a history, claims to be "one of the oldest producers" in the country. That original company never really recovered from the death of the founder - John Philip Wiser - ...

Mezan Rum Twitter Tasting

It's been a long time since I got involved in a Twitter Tasting, but when we saw the announcement for an evening of rum neither Kavey nor I could resist. Neither of us know a great deal about rum (other than that we like it!), so this should be an interesting journey of exploration. Jamaica XO We ...

CaféDirect Cauca Valley

Continuing our exploration of CaféDirect's revamped range, and we head a little south, onto the South American continent itself. We've encountered Colombian coffee from CaféDirect before, but I suspect there has been a little reformulation to go with the rebranding - the strength rating has been nudged down from a 4 to a 3, and ...

Taylors Rare Blossom Ethiopia

Taylors have re-vamped their Origins range, or perhaps simply replaced it with a very similar 'Single Origin' one. Although none of the old origins that I can recall remain, the coffees are all from a single country - in contrast to their core range which are blended from beans across multiple countries and ...

Fuller's & Friends: Flora & The Griffin

In the last couple of years I've grown to realise what a great ingredient rye is. My consistent 'go-to' beers from London Brewing - the mighty Mad As Hops when they have it, and the almost-as-good Rye 'The Hell' Not when they don't - are both Rye IPAs. At the same time, when it comes ...

Fuller's & Friends: Matariki

Saisons are very 'on-trend' at the moment - every craft brewery worth its salt seems to brew one, just as last year they all had to brew lager. So it was inevitable, perhaps, that one would show up in this collection. That said, I hadn't expected Marble to be the folk to do it; ...