This is a very pale ale-style beer.   A good cross-over beer for lager drinkers to get into real ale.   It is light and refreshing with floral grapefruity hops, but not sweet at

Stockportⁱ Footy Ground, Edgley Park, Stockport, SK3 9DD

29th - 31st May 2008

My favourite beer festival of the social calendar is only a short while off!  

This weekend saw the Eurovision Song Contest on the telly.   So what's that got to do with beer?   Well, I got a beer each from loads of different European countries and had a t

Tony Naylor has written a good article on promoting premium, traditionally brewed lagers in the above link but managed to alienate a large part of his audience I think.

This is an extremely pale ale with a very floral, almost perfumed hoppiness.   A gentle light malt flavour.   I bought this at Booth's at Knutsford with many other (predominantl

Mild ale is presicely that; ale which is less bitter - milder - that a pint of bitter.   It isn't necessarily dark, sweet, low strength or having no hop character but more often than not