To: Jolly Good Beer CustomersFrom: Yvan, reviewed by the JGB team So… you’ve heard the Cloudwater-in-Tesco news, right? This was pretty much as much of a surprise to us as to everyone, though I think we sort of felt something was coming when they started messing around with the core beer range this year. Tesco was a[…]
Wow… what a difference a few years makes. I joined CAMRA about 8 years ago – becoming an active member in the North Hertfordshire branch, and eventually branch cellarman for our beer festivals. Despite moving away to Cambridge I have still filled this technical role for the branch over the last few years. I was[…]
Here’s a thing I’ve not done before… “Golden Pints“… in previous bloggy incarnations I’ve always avoided this sort of thing. And in my current incarnation I probably should “doubly so”. I have many biases, I am in “the industry”, and I have favourites – people, beers, breweries… our perception of anything is tainted by all[…]
Gidday folks… so, we’re helping out the awesome people up at Birmingham Beer Bash get some Kiwi action happening. We will be hosting 2 Kiwi beer tastings as part of the Bash “fringe” – one Friday evening at 7pm and the second Saturday evening at 7.45pm. Given the plethora of beers available to us we[…]
I just popped my weekly stock update out to the mailing list and thought I’d post a bit of it here! [Edited a bit, but mostly as sent.] Some of the beers I want to source come at low prices, others have to travel further and/or come from breweries who’re selling their beers so successfully[…]