The City Arms reopened in Cardiff this weekend in time for the first Autumn international as a proper Real Ale pub! The City Arms was built in the 1880ās ā the same decade Brains was founded ā but was known then as the Cattle Market. It was later renamed Dovers Arms, but became the City […]
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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 […]
On Friday myself and my son were going to the Photomarathon exhibition at the old library in the Hayes in Cardiff as we were two of the numbers! But on the way we decided to get some food and popped into the newly refurbished Duke of Wellington, not normally my cup of tea a posh […]
Myself and the Mrs went to the Maltsters in Llandaff last week. It’s one of the Cardiff brewery Brains, modern pubs which they have changed a lot over the last year from the no nonsense pub I remember from my youth (ok 20s) to a open plan pub that serves good food, and for the […]
Camra have launched a great book about Real Heritage Pubs in Wales. I went along to one of my favourite Cardiff City pub (after the Goat Major), The Old arcade on monday, thanks to Brains for the lovely half of dark and the snacks on the house š Anyway the book is a great celebration […]
The other week I joined the beer twitters & bloggers behind the wonderful beer swap (still need to write up my beers for swap II, oops) in their new beer related celebration, to coincide with the world cup. You get allocated a world cup team and you have to pick a beer from that country […]
After last years festival I hope to fit in some time this week to go, probably from Thursday Lunchtime (half day off work anyone?) and a half on the Saturday as Iam doing the photomarathon with my Son, and hope to get some more purple moose as it was great last year. Some great Beers […]
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Happy St Patrick’s Day & Happy St MOON day
I am off to London later today with @jamescuff and @unklerupert for the Jameson’s Whisky Cult Cinema club tonight – with a showing of the wonderful film Moon and hopefully a few small (large) Jameson’s for St Paddy’s day and maybe a visit to a few great pubs. Anyway Happy Saints day to my lot […]
Latest List for their March 2011 festival is here. The beer list has been published for the latest festival Oct/Nov 2010 Spoons Beer festival. Spoons have announced the beers they will be having at their latest Beer Festival. Its begins 7th April 2010 and finishes on the 25th April 2010 1. DALESIDE SPRING FRENZY 3.4% […]
Just bought a copy of Zak Avery’sĀ book “500 Beers” after recommendations from some beer bloggers/twitters Its a great size book perfect for the smallest room in the house or even the shed The layout is interesting, with a great introduction to brewing beer at the start and various tips on buying & serving beer. […]