Our local Sainsbury's has rotated it's standard 2 for £3 offering again. Highlights of the current selection include: Bath Ales Barnstormer [TN] Bath Ales Golden Hare Marston's Old Empire Black Sheep Ale [TN] Timothy Taylor's Landlord Theakston's XB I also noticed a few new ales on the shelves last time I was in Tesco, two [...]
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Nipped in to the local Sainsbury's last night to do the weekly shop and noticed that they've rotated their selection of 3 for £5 bottled ales. Potential highlights this time around include: Bath Ales Barnstormer [Tasting Notes] Bath Ales Golden Hare Fuller's Bengal Lancer [Tasting Notes] Adnams Broadside Young's Special London Ale St Austell Tribute [...]
Sep 29 09
Bath Ales Golden Hare won the …
Bath Ales Golden Hare won the Sainsbury's Beer Competition 2009 - http://bit.ly/2f9qQW - really have to sample that one soon...
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
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 [...]
Mar 20 09
Tasting Notes: Bath Ales Barnstormer
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 [...]
Feb 22 09
Tasting Notes: Bath Ales Dark Hare
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 [...]
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 [...]
Oct 20 08
Tasting Notes: Aleberry Damson Beer
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 [...]
Sep 8 08
Bathing in beer
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
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 [...]
