To Blend, or not to Blend? An Experiment in Mixing Beers

Not too long ago, we held our noses and sampled a selection of the strongest lagers we could find. We also had it on good authority that...

MANCHESTER BEER WEEK: Brewery Expo

For a few boring reasons we can’t remember, we didn’t really get involved in last year’s Manchester Beer Week. If this year’s event is...

MANCHESTER BEER WEEK: Mad Hatter's Beer Party

Mad Hatter Brewery make beer in Liverpool and are perhaps best known for their Carroll-esque artwork and for their outlandish but...

The 8 Best Super-Strength Lagers We Found In Our Local Off License

Despite the recent UK launch of low-strength, low-calorie, low-flavour Bud Light, there’s been a definite trend towards higher ABV beers...

INTERVIEW: Reasons to be Cheerful

Last year, when we were living in an inconspicuous part of South Manchester (North West Burnage? North East Didsbury? South East...

A Beer Drinker's Guide to Nuremberg

If you pick the right time of the year, you can fly to some really cheap places from Manchester. Plenty of these are good beer...

Taking Stock of Stocktoberfest

Stocktoberfest is Stockport’s answer to Germany’s most famous beer festival. For three days, Stockport’s Masonic Guildhall is transformed...

Vegan Beer Fest 2016

Back in 1823, an imposing six story, steam powered mill was built in Salford for Manchester-born spinner Nathan Gough. They named it...

Marseille

Unfortunately we are not all joined at the hip, even though we all lived under one roof last year. In one of our few weeks apart Charlie...

Beer Nouveau

We visited Beer Nouveau’s set up on Temperance Street at the beginning of the summer, and shamefully never put pen to paper to write...

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