Today St David’s Day Brains the Cardiff based brewery launched a new beer at their wonderful Crawshay Arms pub, which is in the grounds of the Brewery, the best pub in Cardiff has it does not have a till! What is different about it from the other Brains keg ales, well It’s a Stout, and […]
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I know I go on about Brains pubs too much on this blog and yes the City Arms does feature a lot – but sod it. From Wednesday 23rd to Wednesday 30th November we’ll be holding our stout and porter festival! We’ll be celebrating the best in dark beers here at the City Arms! We’ll […]
There is talk of American craft ale in the spoons upcoming Autumn fesitval. Here is the full list 1 BRAINS DARK 3.5% ABV Brains Brewery, Cardiff. Est. 1882 2 HARVIESTOUN NUMBER OF THE BEAST 3.6% ABV Harviestoun Brewery, Clackmannanshire. Est. 1985 3 BATEMANS XB 3.7% ABV Batemans Brewery, Lincolnshire. Est. 1874 4 EVERARDS WHAKATU […]
The excellent City arms in Cardiff now has a Beer club for it’s customers. For every £1 you spend we’ll give you a point on your card. Overnight we’ll turn your points into money for you to spend in the pub. We’ll give you 10p for every point you have! You can then use your […]
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Brewdog Edge
Surprisingly I have not had this brewdog before. [flickr]photo:4986483743[/flickr] I was drinking it in my favourite Cardiff Pub the Goat Major, where I normally go for the lovely Brains Dark if they don’t have a guest on. Brewdog Edge is a “dark” like beer – being a mild with a low ABR 3.2% but with […]
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The Worst Pint of Beer in Cardiff is at …
We went to the Wales V France Games Last night. Had a couple of pints before the game At the Goat Major great pint of Hydes Berry Good Ale AT the Central Bar (a spoons pub) Rhymney Export but at 2.95 a pint But the worse pint of the night was at the stadium £3.50 […]
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Beer Swap – a trumpiant in beer swapping
What a great Idea Beer Swap is. I was lucky enough to get some great beers from the Bucks Area in my swap, but I lost the contact details for the person who sent them… so let me know! [flickr]photo:4154476465[/flickr] The glad tidings was my favourite out of the lot from Vale Brewing company, it […]
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Beerswap : the South Wales Beers
I have just packed my beerswap beers and will hopefully drop them off to the Collect+ point tomorrow, please note they are not just in the box as the photo would have you believe! As its the first time I have done something like this I thought I would pick some good honest Welsh beers […]
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Two Welsh Beers in Indy Top 50
Great news that Otley 08 and Brains Dark have made it into the Indepenedant list of The 50 best beers, there were some mighty beers in that list… I suppose we are so used to Dark in Cardiff and a good pint is always a pleasure.. 08 what can I say – hope to get […]
As tomorrow is the start to one of the highlights on the Welsh brewing and drinking calender Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival– I thought I would look at the ales that always seem to end my afternoon on the Friday at the festival – the ones over 6% ABV – but after my recent trip to […]