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St David’s Day doodle from google – have a pint of Brains Dark I say

google.co.uk and their big brother google.com is celebrating the patron Saint of Wales with a doodle of a Welsh costume and a Daffodil but was I the only one to notice that it looked like she had a Pint of Wales National Drink (IMHO) Brains Dark on her head? FYI the Goat Major Pub is […]

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Great Video Review of Brains Dark from BeerSwap

As you know I am taking part in the beerswap thing and I sent Four Welsh Beers to a chap Called Sean who works for Adnams Brewery in Southwold, Suffolk. Read their blog review of the beer My beer reviews will be up very soon! but don’t think I can compare with Sean and Sarahs […]

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Cardiff brewery Brains pigs out with a Bacon Beer for GBBF

When I heard that Cardiff brewery Brains are making a Bacon flavoured beer I Was interested and now they have given some more info then more so Shame Iam not going to GBBF this year -now I wonder if they used smoked bacon but I do hope they have it in a few of their […]

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Good news for craft beer fans in Cardiff – Brains to open new craft brewery

Hopefully they will open it up to beer drinkers community to help choose or even brew new beer – Iam thinking hoppy beers to give certain scottish beers or Amercian beers a run for their money. From SA Brain Welsh brewer SA Brain and Co Ltd today announced that it is to extend production facilities […]

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Cardiff Brew wins World’s Best Dark Mild Ale

My local brewery and my go to pint (2nd beer I ever drank 20 years ago, 1st was Buckley SBB) and I still have a pint of at least once a week. Brains Dark, has been named the ‘World’s Best Dark Mild Ale’ and ‘Europe’s Best Dark Mild Ale’ at the World Beer Awards 2011. […]

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Cardiff brewery Brains rebrands it’s cask ale clips

Cardiff brewery S A Brain are rebranding their real ale clips – I’m a bit late on this as Arfur mentioned it last week, but of course he just drinks and writes all the time from Brains pubs;) I seem to blog about a lot about this brewery, but I suppose they are my local […]

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St David’s Day – A tour of the Brains Brewery & drinking in Cardiff pubs what could go wrong – nothing

When you get off a train at Cardiff central on a Monday morning after a rugby international you are greeted first with the sound of the dive bombing seagulls from the River Taff, then the more welcoming smell of beer being brewed from the Cardiff brewery that is S A Brains – it’s a smell […]

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Brains IPA too little for too much

I had a pint of the Brains IPA cask earlier in the week at the always a pleasure to go in pub, Goat Major. [flickr]photo:4931303283[/flickr] A light, copper colour ale with a fresh, hoppy taste and a clean, bitter finish. Brewed with two varieties of hops, combined with pale and crystal malts. I liked it […]

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Cardiff Brains Brewery to put IPA in bottles

On that Twitter ,Brand Manager for S.A Brain & Co Ltd, Ian Beattie tweeted about the labels for the new Brains IPA in bottles. Brains do an IPA smooth which is not the first on my list to drink when I pop into one of their pubs, back in the day I used to drink […]

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Brains you are surprising us with your marketing for National Cask Ale Week

Brains are upping their marketing this year with this great promotional tool to get people to taste their cask ales, what you mean there are people in Kardiff not tasted a Brains Dark, shame on you. I can’t see this going down well in all their houses (Vulcan, Cottage & City Arms) but in the […]