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Sep 29 09

Bath Ales Golden Hare won the …

by Darren Turpin

Bath Ales Golden Hare won the Sainsbury's Beer Competition 2009 - http://bit.ly/2f9qQW - really have to sample that one soon...

Aug 27 09

Sainsbury’s Real Ale Promo 2009 – now in stock

by Darren Turpin

Sainsbury's have kicked off this year's Real Ale promo and have the full range in stock at our local store, which made last night's mid-week top-up shopping trip about twice as expensive, twice as heavy and ten times as interesting as it usually is.
I grabbed pretty much one of everything they had, which means [...]

May 6 09

Tasting Notes: Bath Ales Gem

by Darren Turpin

Brewery: Bath Ales
Location: Bristol, England
ABV: 4.8%
Version: Bottled
Source: Courtesy of BeerMerchants.com
Our highly esteemed and most learned BoB.com colleague Tim is a big fan of Bath Ales (he's covered Dark Hare and Barnstormer already) so I was delighted to receive a bottle of Bath Ales Gem from Phil at BeerMerchants.com as part of the sample case that [...]

Mar 20 09

Tasting Notes: Bath Ales Barnstormer

by Tim Lebbon

Brewery: Bath Ales
Location: Warmley, Bristol
ABV: 4.5%
Version: Bottled
Source: Sainsbury's
My burgeoning love affair with Bath Ales continues with this cracking dark ale.  I picked it up on a run through Sainsbury's late one Saturday afternoon, along with a couple of bottles of Meantime (ready for an evening watching Vic Mackey kick butt on The Shield).  After enjoying [...]

Feb 22 09

Tasting Notes: Bath Ales Dark Hare

by Tim Lebbon

Brewer: Bath Ales
Location: Warmley, Bristol
ABV: 4.0%
Version: bottled
Source: a cafe in Bradford On Avon
I was visiting Bradford for a day's work on a screenplay project with a good mate of mine. We hit the cafe for lunch (fantastic food ... forget the old greasy spoon image), and they had a fine selection of Bath Ales at [...]

Jan 18 09

Quick catch-up #4: The Rest of 2008, Part III

by Darren Turpin

Right then, one last 2008 round-up piece. And then it's a slight change of direction for me in 2009.
As I mentioned at the start of my first 2008 'rest of' post, I went a bit mad last year in an effort to try one of everything I could possibly find in the local supermarkets and [...]

Oct 20 08

Tasting Notes: Aleberry Damson Beer

by Joe Gordon

Brewery: Craigmill Brewery
Origin: Strathaven, Scotland, ML10 6PB
ABV: 5.2%
Version: draught
Having enjoyed the Clydesdale IPA and Old Mortality I'd picked up I thought next time we were in the area it would be a good idea to seek out the Craigmill Brewery, home to Strathaven Ales, to pick up some more of the beers this small, independent [...]

Sep 8 08

Bathing in beer

by Joe Gordon

No, we haven't changed BoB to a blog about baths, this is in fact my friend and extremely fine author Jeff VanderMeer soaking in beer suds rather than drinking them.
On a book trip to the Czech Republic Jeff and wife Ann (literary editor at Weird Tales) were using the trip to take in some [...]

Aug 11 08

Looks like it might be my round

by Darren Turpin

Spent the weekend down at the in-laws' in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. I was hoping to nip into Tanner's, the town's quality wine emporium, as they usually have a good selection of local bottled beers, but alas (and probably, all-too predictably) they were closed when I was in town on the Sunday afternoon and yes, they did [...]