It’s safe to say that if your particular taste is for murky, juicy IPAs laden with insane dry hopping to accentuate the New England style then you won’t have struggled to find something to your taste in recent times… but what if you crave the old school? Something clear and bitter? READ MORE
Most Northern Irish bars are tied to macro beer distributors, meaning there’s often limited space for independent beer taps. Guinness, although one of the biggest beers on the planet, is therefore often our default go-to. Even though it would be impossible to claim Guinness is a craft beer by any definition, we’ve still got a lot of love for the black stuff, particularly compared to the lagers it usually sits beside at the bar.
Having started brewing craft beers on their farm in Randalstown, County Antrim in 2013, Hillstown Brewery have come a long way since then, winning awards, rebranding and making increasingly more progressive and inventive beers. They were kind enough to send us samples of two of their most recent specials to check out.
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Beer52 are the world’s #1 craft beer club, delivering a specially curated, themed box of beers direct to subscribers each month.
The two most recent boxes are great examples of what Beer52 do – November saw a fully-themed box of beers brewed exclusively for Beer52 in collaboration with a number of London-based restaurants, while the December box features beers from more well-known breweries from the South West of the UK.
Verdant have crept into all our lives almost without us noticing. Unassuming and without great fanfare, I’m sure we all have a massive spot in our hearts for these pale ale mammoths of the UK craft beer community.
Beers like Bloom, Headband and Lightbulb have been providing us hop fiends with enough juice to complete our five a day for some time. If you fancy something a little more potent, their continual smaller batches push the boundaries of just how much hop flavour it’s possible to impart on the senses – See The Physics and Don’t Tell Gus are two recent examples of these stand out beers.
Needless to say, we were incredibly excited when they announced the release of their first imperial stout that hasn’t seen the inside of a bourbon barrel – will their skill with dark malt match that of their skill with hops?
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