Beer tasting

Great British Beer Festival Winter

I attended GBBF Winter held this year at Magna in Rotherham.  The venue wasn’t ideal as it is not on the Sheffield tram network and once inside was very strung out with odd bars in corners.  What was really disappointing was the lack of a beer list so you couldn’t decide which beers to try. …

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Beer Tasting Panel / Kissingate Brewery Beer Festival

I had the pleasure of sitting on a CAMRA Beer Tasting Panel held at the Kissingate Brewery Beer Festival. The brewery has collected multiple awards including, on this occasion, “Beer of the Festival” for the South Downs Beer Festival. They laid on a very wide selection of beers, covering all styles; however the dark beers…

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Great British Beer Festival 2022

It was great to see the GBBF, organised by CAMRA, return to Olympia. There were hundreds of beers available plus gins, wines and many food stands. The stand out beers for me were: Blackedge Dark Mild (3.9%) – from a brewery based in Greater Manchester, a rich dark mild with loads of flavour from a…

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