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Brewdog’s Paradox Imperial stout – seriously strong beer

March 3, 2010 Food & drink
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Brewdog is a small Scottish brewery with a formidable reputation for creating a marketing stir. They’ve been chasing controversy since 2007 with a combination of marketing stunts, engaging with social media and some ridiculously strong beer, peaking with last year’s Tactical Nuclear Penguin at a collosal 32% ABV.  That’s a beer that will literally knock [...]

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Barngates Brewery, Cumbria

January 5, 2010 Food & drink
Barngates Brewery, The Drunken Duck, Cumbria

The Drunken Duck has an ace up its’ sleeve. Out the back, they’ve got their own micro-brewery. Barngates Brewery was founded in 1997, as an experiment to supply the Duck’s bar with some of it’s own beer.  In 1999, the operation was expanded to a five-barrel plant, and in 2008, with the help of some [...]

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Copper Dragon Brewery, Skipton

September 25, 2009 Food & drink
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The Copper Dragon Brewery resurrected the local brewing industry in Skipton in 2002, with the aim of re-establishing the long defunct Skipton Brewery. Their aim, after much research which basically indicated that the more artisan end of the beer market was being squeezed to near death by the big multinational breweries, was to brew traditional, [...]

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Leeds Brewery

July 22, 2009 Food & drink
Leeds Brewery

I realised the other day that I haven’t written anything at all about Leeds Brewery yet. The brewery has been in production since 2007, and it’s got a stable of good, solid modern beers, and a trio of staggeringly good pubs to sell it in. Leeds have three permanent beers, supplemented by a range of [...]

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Little Valley Brewery’s Hebden’s Wheat

June 23, 2009 Food & drink
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Hebden’s Wheat is a light and lively wheat beer from the Little Valley Brewery in Hebden Bridge. The beer is bottle conditioned, with a distinct lemon taste, tinged with coriander. It goes perfectly with a curry or other spicy food. Little Valley’s beers are organic, certified by the Soil Association and overseen by the brewery’s [...]

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Three Lakeland beers

May 8, 2009 Food & drink
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The English Lake District is one of the most beautiful and spectacular parts of the British Isles. Mountains tower over lush valleys and deep lakes. There’s a long and proud brewing tradition in these parts, and some excellent pubs. Hawkshead Brewery supplied me with a couple of excellent pints – Lakeland Gold and Red. Red [...]

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