New Beer Review – Innis and Gunn Taste Test
I have just posted a new review of 4 different types of Innis and Gunn check it out on beer reviews by clicking here
Read MoreNew House Guest
We have a new house guest at the moment, she is called Dash and she is a hamster, we are looking after her for some friends, i thought they might like to see how she was getting on while they were away so i have set her a twitter page up @ www.twitter.com/dashthehamster – if you have twitter plesase say hello to her!
Read MoreOne of my photos used on Outdoorsmagic
I just clicked onto one of the sites i use quite a lot (although not as much as i used to) anwyay they are currently advertising a competition for renound tent maker, Vango, they have used one of my pictures – from when i went camping at sprinkling tarn, in their article, nice one! you can see the picture and the article here
Read MoreCropton Honey Gold Review
I had a few spare minutes so i thought i would post a new short beer review on our beer review site, you can find it here If you are interested in beers and pubs then its probably worth bookmarking the beer blog as its going to grow over the next few months and will hopefully be full of useful and not to geeky beer talk. I just took delivery of a few new beers from beermerchants.com so there will be reviews of all of those on there once i have drunk them, as you can see below there are quite a few:
Read MoreWildcamping June 2009
One of my many hobbies is hiking and camping, a few years ago we discovered the delights of camping in the wild away from everyone else, since then we try to get out as much as possible. I intend to put short write ups on here with links to the photos, i probably won’t go into much detail as if people want to work out where we were or copy the route then they should be able to figure it out without me describing it too much. Or most recent trip was just a quick trip and was used to acclimatise our friends new boxer puppy, Alfie to the hills and to life in a tent. It started off warm but cloudy, then got misty at the tarn, cleared nicely at 5am but then misted over until 10ish when the sun burnt it off and it got up towards 27 degrees. We completed our walk,...
Read MoreBlackwell Ox Carlton In Carlton
I’ve just posted a review of the Blackwell Ox in Carlton on my Chilli Up North blog, you can read it here. If you would like to see the photos from the walk you can see them on my flickr account here
Read MoreA storm brew(dog)ing in a Tea cup
There seems to be a lot in the press today about the release of BrewDog’s new 18% tokyo* beer, it would seem the press have latched onto it and aren’t letting go. Now this might upset a few people but we have a feeling its something BrewDog planned, what better way to get some free publicity than brew something completely different and uber strong. (ED: I agree). I can see where the press are coming from as there are a lot of units in one 330ml bottle, infact probably enough units for it to be classed as binge drinking, but your average drinker isn’t going to spend £10 (plus postage) on a single 330ml bottle of beer when they can nip to their local supermarket and buy 20 cans of mass produced beer, which is easier to drink a large amount of...
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