Speciality ales

Cantillon - not your avarage brewery visit

The Cantillon brewery is home to some of the most famous lambic style beers.

Not going to the Great British Beer Festival

I have the opportunity to go to the GBBFi this year again but I've decided not to.   For the last two years I've organised a works corporate entertainment day on the Thursday of the festiv

The 22nd Stockport Beer Festival

The Stocky Beer Fest is my favourite of the festival calendar

Eurodoublevision

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

Taste Test: German Style Wheat Beers

I've bought seven different German style cloudy wheat beers to taste test - not all were German however.   Rhian poured four of them in the kitchen and brought them through so I couldn't

Lambic Beer

Lambic beer is the name given to beer which is spontaneously fermented.   Instead of having a monoculture of yeast especially bred for brewing beer introduced to the wort, the wort i

Non alcoholic beer

Franziskaner Weissbier Alkoholfrei

Tucher Hefe Weizen

Krombacher alkoholfrei