It comes as no surprise that on an island that is more known for its grapes and wine production that beer is slightly tougher to come by in Santorini. The island is home to many wine producers but is home to only one brewery, the Santorini Brewing Co. Travelling through the winding roads of Santorini , dodging some very suspect driving from the locals, quad bikes and people hiking on foot roadside, you won’t go 10 minutes without seeing a vineyard, growing grapes in their uni

Temple Brew House is just a short couple minutes walking from the Thames, with lots of local tube stations to pick from including my short 9-minute walk back to Chancery Lane for the central line (there is even a handy wall poster in the pub with all the last tube times). Take a turn onto Essex Street and you will see the front doors of The Temple Brew House, inviting you down to the basement bar. Lots of wooden tables and chairs surround the bar space all sitting under the d

Best UK Cask Beer I’ve found this category a tough one this year, I’ve not drank less cask beer, if anything I think I have had more but I can’t think of many that has really blown me away. Well apart from one right near the end of the year a couple weeks ago at the Pigs Ear beer festival. It is no secret how much I love Five Points Railway Porter, its pretty much been in all my Golden Pints Awards from the start but this year I feature a slightly different version of it. Der

I don’t know about you but by the time it is Christmas, most years, I am sick of Christmas dinner! I’m not the biggest of turkey fans if I am to be honest (I’m more than happy for gammon>turkey), unless it comes in the Christmas sandwich format, then I am all for the full Christmas line up. While looking at different sandwiches and what certain supermarkets are offering up this year I had the idea to create my own Christmas burger, a Christmas dinner for those who are bored o

Before there was beer there was Hip Hop, a time when I wasn’t spending all my cash on bottles and cans to take home but instead it was vinyl. I wasn’t reading about different beers and the best places to drink them, I was reading EP reviews and looking out for the latest gigs. During my college years there was even a period of time that I dabbled in a bit of music creation myself, somewhere I could vent my passion just like I do now with beer blogging. I don’t know what it wa

After a week of blistering heat, the midweek July evening had taken a turn to the muggy side and you could sense a storm was brewing. The storm didn’t bother me, neither did being on the other side of London for a change as I was on my way to my first visit to The Prince for a Magic Rock Beer Party & BBQ, hosted by Matthew Curtis with special guest Rich Burhouse, founder of Magic Rock Brewing. I walked into The Prince N22 and was instantly greeted with the rare sight of a ful

The past couple of years has been crazy! When I first started this blog all I wanted to achieve was providing information to help others in either finding somewhere they could enjoy good beer on their travels or help to give recommendations for newbies in the world of beer. Sharing the love for good beer and giving my mates ears a rest from me badgering them into trying stuff was my number one goal. I could have never envisioned that writing this blog would result in being in

Last year MC Motors in Dalston held, in my eyes, the best beer event of the year in Brooklyn Brewery Beer Mansion. Nobody really knew what they were in for as they stepped through the doors of MC Motors, so to walk into a maze of rooms pouring top beers from both Brooklyn and other breweries, all for a £10 entry, blew our minds. The whole of MC Motors was decked out head to toe in Brooklyn branding, we drank some of the best beers I had all year long, there was loads of fun a

WARNING!!! This dish is pretty spicy, you might need some sour cream if you are not a fan of heat! Also, this recipe makes LOTS of Jerk curry, you will need a big pot or casserole dish, or if you want to make less then just half all the ingredients, if not then this will keep up to two days in the fridge or you can freeze it for another day. I recommend you chop and dice all the veg before cooking, as much as I love eating butternut squash I have to say it’s a real nightmare

Beers like Proper Job and Tribute brewed by Cornwall based family owned brewery St Austell are beers that guided me through my early years of exploring different beers. Many a college pub session would have involved pints of Tribute, the classic Cornish pale ale which can be found all across the UK. As the years passed by the selection of beers grew larger, so beers like Tribute and Proper Job started to become less common during my trips to the pub. When the cask beer is loo

For the last couple of years, I have said that London needs a CAMRA beer festival which should feature a beer list completely made up of London cask beer, I had wrote it in a half finished blog post after last year’s London Drinker festival which never saw the light of day. I wrote how that I thought the London Drinker would be the perfect festival bring the best of cask beer in London. Finally, this year I got my wish and not only that, there was a key keg bar thrown into th

Way back earlier in the year some regulars to the SX Bottleshare all made a trip up to Norwich, I never got around to doing the blog post so thought it would be a good addition to the Beer Blogging Advent. We all met up early doors, the morning after a bit of a drinking session round mine which included half the group traveling. It was safe to say a few of us was slightly groggy and the train time table boards greeting us informing our train had been cancelled didn’t help. We

As soon as I took my seat in the blacked out mini bus a pint size can of Pilsner Urquell was put in my hand, it was the first of many, the start to my first visit to Prague and the beginning to 24 hours in the Czech Republic. After a slight delay on our outbound flight we were picked up by our guide Marketa Cranfordova and taken straight to Čestr Restaurant in Prague for dinner with Pilsner Urquell’s Beer Master Robert Lobovsky. Čestr is an impressive slick steak restaurant w

Over the last decade or so I, like many football fans, have travelled around the country watching our chosen team. Over that period of time it is fair to say I have visited some real shit holes! But it is always a real pleasure when you get to experience a town or city that is lovely and has so much going for it, York was one of these places, possibly even the nicest place I have visited with Leyton Orient. The fixture Gods were good to me this year, York away fell a few days

Its Thursday evening, it’s chucking it down with rain and thunder echoes through the streets of London. It’s an end to a pretty shitty week at work and to be honest I’m feeling a bit down. Then a tweet pops up on my phone and reminds me that in one more sleep all my problems will be forgotten. That tweet is from @LCBFestival and it was informing people on what beers could be found at the festival. Instantly I’m feeling better. I was gutted I didn’t go last year and seeing all

People from all over the world travelled to Barcelona to attend the awesome beer festival this March but not only did they get to enjoy a brilliant beer festival they also got to do some beer travel and experience Barcelona’s fresh, vibrant, growing beer scene. In the centre of it all is Garage Beer Co, a microbrewery which opened in not even a year ago in the Eixample district, the same district as Bier Cab and Brewdog. It’s roughly a 15+ minute walk from La Ramblas and you

La Ramblas, one of the world’s most famous streets, a busy long snake like street with shops, restaurants and tourist attractions running down its sides with market stalls providing anything from hand painted cartoons of yourself to fruit and veg shaped in rather questionable shapes! If you’ve visited Barcelona then the likelihood is you’ve been here or been to one of my favourite places in the world, La Boqueria market. Just off La Ramblas and across from La Boqueria market

10 tall shiny metallic giants stand side by side in a room, watching over a hall full of people, old and young, male and female, “Hipster” and “CAMRA member” alike. These 10 giants are like a visual example of how far beer and the drinking of beer has come within the past couple of years. First we had cask ale changing their pump clips from the same boring selection across most pubs to a much wider and better quality selection, then we had the introduction to beer other than

Ermmmaaagward I lurrrvvee Sorachi Ace hops!!! This is my first thought whenever I have a beer that is brewed with Sorachi Ace hops, I love it, its characteristics are so different to any other type of hop used in brewing. The Sorachi Ace hop was originally made in Hokkaidō, Japan in the late 1970’s however it wasn’t commercial till 1984 and not really available to USA to be used in Craft Beer till 2006!  So quite the new comer to be honest. It was created by combinging Brewer

“A clever woman once said; “fair is foul and foul is far”. On that note we threw in a young unacknowledged hoppy pislner, gave it a limp, wrinkly flavour and finished if off with an insulting high price that will give you a foul feeling in your mouth. That’s why we name Evil Twin Brewing Low Life the Golddigger of Beers.” This is what the bottle label reads and gives us a good insight into the mindset of Evil Twin Brewing! Evil Twin Brewing Co are owned by one half of the fam