So the final beer is here… And I hold my hands up… Due to #12beersofnye plus #twobottlesofdessertwinenye on new years eve I wasn’t in a good place to be enjoying a beer and describing how it was! So the last beer of #12beersofxmas was had on new years day after dinner and shared with my family! #review #beaver #belching #12beersofxmas #brewery #Beer #craftbeer #bottle

I am currently trying to play catch up as the 30th and 31st of December have flown by and I kind of feel like I have fell at the last two hurdles! So the first catch up beer is Brewdog’s Mixtape 8. This was another gift from my best pal (two #12beersofxmas gifts from him makes him a very good friend indeed!), this gift for my birthday back in April. I had never heard of it before it was given to me so I was excited to try. The artwork on the box and bottle is incredible! A re

Being the beer fans that my girlfriend and I am it means when Christmas time or birthday friends and family step into a world of beer they don’t know and try to find new and exciting beers as presents. This year my sister ventured to her local brewery Ridgeway in Oxford  where she tells me the beers are named after different levels of bad elfs and bought us a present! This huge 10.5% is a very bad elfs indeed so bad he is criminal! It pours a perfect golden amber which shines

I seem to be working a day behind at the moment with #12beersofxmas but I will try my best to catch up tonight! This one was actually rather cheekily had half hour before day 9… But it over lapped into day 9 while drinking so it counts! Plus this beer is too big not to have its own post! This isn’t the first time I have had the pleasure of drinking Bible Belt, my first was in Latvia at the previously reviewed ALEhouse in Riga, this was straight from the tap and it was amazing

Originally I wanted to bring everyone a live from the pub #12beersofxmas yesterday but as I was out with friends in Southend this proved almost impossible! Unfortunately Southend is a bit of a good beer wasteland! There were a few moments worthy of a mention, The Old Trout is head and shoulders above the rest for the quality and range of beers and I did have a ok beer in there called Knee Deep but not something I wanted to use for #12beersofxmas. Also I had a bottle of Brentw

Part of a mixed case of Purple Moose beers I got delivered for Christmas this year. This Welsh brewery is quickly becoming a big favourite of mine! They’re selection of beers are consistently brilliant! This beer doesn’t disappoint either, a ruby mahogany brown colour with all those winter warmer Christmas flavours you expect, rasains, clove, sour fruit slight nutty wood flavour. Keep an eye on the blog for a full Purple Moose Brewery blog post coming soon looking at all the

This was actually a present from last year! So it has been aged in the collection for a year, so another year on all the aging it already has had at the brewery and it’s got this beer tasting incredible! It’s big, it’s boozey, it’s rich and warm! Afraid it’s a quick one today as we all know the rush of Christmas is apon us! Merry Christmas everyone! #review #oxford #12beersofxmas #vintage #brewery #old #dairy #Beer #craftbeer #bottle

Day late posting this up! A quick one today as this was a live in the pub #12beersofxmas… A Christmas tradition of my friend Paul and myself is as soon as we finish work at 1pm Christmas eve we are out of that building quicker than santa setting off in his sleigh to venture to Broadway Market so we can have a Christmas beer or two in The Dove. A lovely old looking pub that feels christmasy with its decorations and Christmas beers. This year we were lucky enough to have a gorg

I seemed to have missed the #12beersofxmas IPA day yesterday!!! There was lots of IPAs popping up on my twitter feed so maybe I am a little late with my one! American Rogue brewery is a top brewery although I have only had a very small handful of their beers I never seem to be disappointed. It was great news this year when Wetherspoons added a bottle of Rogue to their new craft menu. Already familiar with a Christmas beer called Yellow Snow (Mighty Oak Brewing Co) this bottle

I don’t know about you fellow beer fanatics but whenever I have friends who go somewhere on holiday or travel somewhere I sometimes get awesome bottle shaped presents brought back to me. My best pals little brother lives in Vancouver and he went to visit him just before Halloween and on his return he gave me a 750ml big bottle of Steamworks Brewing Co Pumpkin Ale. I never got around to drinking it at Halloween but it’s a special beer so what better time than to include it in

Day 2 of #12beersofxmas and today I am bringing this unique beer to the table… I picked this up in the Wine Factory in Chingford high street a month or so back and when I first bought it I didn’t even notice the little present inside the beer bottle! Thanks to my online beer buddy Kev aka Belgian Beer Geek he warned me that the hop inside the bottle makes this beer a bit of a “gusher” when opened… A hop inside the bottle??? I went and checked the bottle and there it was a sin

So here we go I am joining the gang of beer elves and getting involved with the #12beersofxmas… And if you are going in you got to go in big… And for me this is one of my favourite beers I have ever had! It’s a risky first beer because I have only had this once and it was actually in the browerij De Prael in Amsterdam and it was like love at first taste! But was it the fact I had a few beers previously that day, or the amazing atmosphere in the brewery bar or that holiday bre