Well it’s come around again – some beers of note that I will try and have. VASILEOSTROVSKY IMPERIAL RUSSIAN STOUT 6.5% ABV NETHERGATE IPA RESERVE 4.7% ABV NØGNE Ø BITTER 4.5% ABV TITANIC NINE TENTHS BELOW 5.9% ABV ZULULAND ZULU BLONDE 4.5% ABV >>>> ACORN OLD MOOR PORTER 4.4% ABV Acorn Brewery, […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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Great British Beer Festival 2011 : Beer List
After the Foreign and Cider lists here is the list you have been waiting for! You will need to go to the GBBF site to see where these beers are being served Arran (Ayrshire) Ale (3.8% ABV) An amber ale where the predominance of the hop produces a bitter beer with a subtle balancing sweetness […]
As you know July the 4th is the start of shedweek, but it’s also American independence day – but which came first? 😉 The Brains Brewery house in the Centre of Cardiff, the City Arms is having an American beer festival from today 1st July until 10th July – on the opening night, today the […]
Blimey it’s that time of the year again and Spoons are having their Real Ale and Cider Festival it starts on 23rd March 2011 and ends on the 10th April 2011. Some great beers this time fifty of them! what ever you say about spoons – they do let you taste a great variety in […]
I have a few days off in August to go to the Britain’s biggest and best beer festival this year ( 2-6 August 2011), my hotel is booked, and the tickets for the event have been released today – now only need a cheap train fare from Cardiff to London and I will be sorted. […]
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 […]
I spent the late evening on Friday in Cardiff with the Mrs, her brother and his mrs. We watched the early fireworks from a great vantage point and went out for a few pints of ale and some food around 9.30pm, but there was not much choice. To my horror all my normal watering holes […]