Tomorrow sees the second ever International IPAday and you can be assured we will have a good choice at Just Beer! From tomorrow we will be serving: Sadler’s (Windsor Castle Brewery) from Stourbridge, West Mids, Red IPA at 5.7%, described as “Grapefruit, pine and toffee in the aroma. Hoppy and sweet taste with a fairly strong bitterness and notes of pine, grapefruit and peach.” From Stringer’s in Ulverston, Cumbria, we have Paint It Black IPA at a mere 5.5% which …
Nottinghamshire Pub of the Year award presentation.
CAMRA’s Nottinghamshire Pub of the Year 2012 award is being presented to Just Beer Micropub this coming Saturday, 7th July. Festivities begin from 1.30pm and have we got some treats for you! During the day we will be serving beers from two brand-new breweries – BlackJack Shuffled Deck 3.8% from Manchester (opened May this year) and Hartshorns Highgate 4.3% from Derby, which opened at the end of April. Also on the menu will be two brewpub’s beers – Brodies Simcoe …
Just Beer goes lager.
After 20 months of selling only cask beer, we have decided to introduce a keg lager onto the bar at Just Beer. In keeping with our ideals, this will not be a mass produced product. No, Sireee! After much research, we have managed to source a lager from the brand-new Blázen micro-brewery from the Czech Republic. This is the first time any of their beer has ever appeared in the UK and the 4.5% keg lager, Kočičí Moči (pronounced Kochichi …
Cask Ale Week 1st – 9th Oct.
National Cask Ale Week is a campaign organised between CAMRA and Cask Marque. The main objective is to get more people trying real ale and encourage more pubs to organise real ale events throughout the week. JB’s is doing its little bit by featuring beers from four brand-new breweries; Geeves and Revolutions brewed their first beers in the middle of July. The Blackedge and Cross Bay breweries started production only last month. As a bonus, we have a once-only beer …
Thank You!
A massive thank-you to all you folk that attended our 1st birthday celebrations. Without you lot, we wouldn’t have made it so far. We look forward to serving you for many years to come! Thanks also to Porter’s for the pork pies, Polly and Penny for all the yummy cakes and to everyone who contributed prizes for the raffle in aid of Beaumond House Community Hospice. Hope the hangover wasn’t too bad!
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.
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 …
1st Birthday Party Aug 5th.
JBs has been open exactly one yer on august 4th and to celebrate, we’re having a bit of a party on Friday 5th. We’ve had a special one-off beer brewed by Sleaford Brewery. A 5.5% Espresso and Vanilla Stout. Chris at Sleaford has made only two casks of this and we’ve got both of them. When it’s gone, it’s gone so don’t miss it! Next up, Porter’s of Newark are making us two birthday cake-sized pork pies to put on …