Two brewers, two beer styles – one great new beer

Now, I am the first to admit that fusing beer styles is not new, and was a thing well before the debate about ‘what is craft beer’ ever began. You see, at the risk of showing my age I was known in my youth to partake in pint of ‘twos’. For those of you of more tender...

New Year, New Tobi’s – same key message

As our regular followers will know we are very proud to be part of the It’s On the Ball campaign and helping their small, dedicated team do all that they can to raise awareness of testicular cancer. A key part of that support has been the brewing of Tobi’s Tipple each...

It’s a Christmas Mash Up

Well, you loved the idea of our spring mash up – where we cleared out the malt store – we figured it only appropriate that an all new Mash Up returns for Christmas. And, seeing though it is a new Christmas beer we felt we should mash up 12 ingredients to represent the...

Bidding for hoppiness…a new swashbuckling IPA

OK, so swashbulking may be stretching the description a wee bit far but our new IPA owes so much to a couple of Musketeers – Matt and Tan that is seems wholly appropriate. Why musketeers? Well that’s a whole other story for another day. However, we owe a genuine debt...

A modern twist for an old ale…

The mere mention of an Old Ale and you conjure up images of log fires in pubs and rich dark beers. While you wouldn’t be wrong, Old Ale is a beer style which actually has many guises, yes typically dark, and more often than not on the stronger side – say 5% and above...