Cruella, a 4.8% Black IPA brewed by Brewsters brewery, went on sale last night and prompted at least an hour’s worth of heated debate! I think most discerning drinkers know what style of beer Black IPA – love it or hate it – pertains to be. Basically it is a black beer so heavily hopped (in the IPA styleee) that it obscures the roast malt character from the flavour. It is the name the style has adopted, that of Black …
Final Beer Fest Menu Available.
The menu* for the Just Beer leg of the BeerMuda Triangle Beer Festival is now available for download here. *Due to cellar space, up to seventeen beers will be available at any time – eight on hand pull and nine served from cask at cellar temperature. Current beers will be displayed on the board – If it’s not listed, it’s not available yet! Botanist (Richmond, London: Aug 2011) – Night Porter 5% Brodies (London: 2008) – Hoxton Special IPA 6.6% …
BeerMuda Triangle Beer Festival takes shape
The BeerMuda Triangle Beer Festival takes place over the weekend of 26th – 29th January (Thu – Sun) and is being run by Just Beer in conjunction with the Castle and Prince Rupert (three pubs = triangle!, geddit?). Just Beer has been busy for the last few weeks trying to source exciting beers from some of the rarer and newest breweries for you and has almost completed its beer order. We are very proud to announce the following menu: …
Yippe-i-ay, it’s IPA day today!
Yep, apparently it’s IPA day today. Redwillow Ageless Double IPA 7.2% on the bar at JB imminently. Meanwhile, get the low-down on this fab beer style here.
Know your taste.
An excellent new way of describing a beer’s characteristics based on a visual clue came to our attention recently. PintPicker.co.uk have devised a new and simple way of describing a beer graphically, using six basic characteristics – Bitter, Hoppy, Citrus, Sweet, Burnt and Winey (not sure about that one – should it be ‘fruity’?) on a scale of 0-5, then joining the points on a taste ‘wheel’ to give a graphic shape of the beer’s taste. Filling the shape with …
Birthday beers arrived.
Our specially commissioned beers have are arrived and are now maturing in the cellar to be ready for our first birthday celebrations on August 5th. Due to a slight mix-up we now have not one, but two one-off birthday beers for you. They are both variations on the same base brew, a full-bodied 5.5% stout. Variation No.1 (sounds like a review of a Franz Schubert symphony) is a Double Espresso Stout, bitter with a big coffee hit and just a …
Don’t forget Stan Laurel day!
This coming Thursday (16th June) is Stan Laurel’s birthday and to celebrate it we have specially got three fab beers from Ulverston brewery. Ulverston in Cumbria was the birth place of Stan and their beers are named after all things Laurel and Hardy. Firstly we have the 4% ‘Another Fine Mess’, a pale, full-bodied beer with a sweet, hoppy aroma. Secondly we have another 4% beer named ‘Laughing Gravy’ after the duo’s dog. This one is a light, copper beer …
Let the festival begin!
We are very excited to be having our first mini beer festival, which starts tomorrow (26th) and runs through until Monday 30th. We have what we think is a great beer list for you including three brand new breweries (first gyle from two of them) and some rare beers from brew pubs. On top of that, we have two specials, one of them from Maypole – Heart of Gold – which will generate 50p per pint drunk to go to …