It’s Halloween! That means it’s time for some bewitching brews and seasonal specials to spook your tastebuds!
Here’s a list of our Top 10 Halloween themed beers. Don’t worry, there’s only one pumpkin beer…
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Top 10 Halloween Beers
It’s Halloween! That means it’s time for some bewitching brews and seasonal specials to spook your tastebuds!
Here’s a list of our Top 10 Halloween themed beers. Don’t worry, there’s only one pumpkin beer…
READ MORE
London based brewery, Signature Brew recently announced their crowdfunding campaign and we’re digging it. Having been long time fans of punk rock and going to gigs, we find it tiresome having to drink macro lager at big music venues and festivals but times are a-changin’ and Signature Brew are leading the way.
Having collaborated with a string of awesome bands across a variety of genres, they want to make good beer accessible to music fans – and are combining their love of great beer and live music in doing so. If they can successfully raise the investment required, they’ll be one step closer to ridding the world of rubbish beer at gigs, and if that’s not a good reason to invest, we don’t know what is…
Thankfully, we found someone who does. Signature Brew’s Head of Marketing, John Longbottom, was kind enough to chat to us, filling us in on all the details of the crowdfunding campaign, future plans and loads more. Before joining his best mates at Signature Brew, John was News Editor at Kerrang! for several years so these guys know their music as well as their beers!
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?
Thornbridge could be considered one of the founding members of the craft scene in the UK; their seminal Jaipur IPA was a revolutionary beer which went on to inspire a certain Punk IPA and we all know what happened next…
Thornbridge have stayed true to their early offerings and you’ll struggle to find anyone who says a bad word about the mystical pint of Jaipur on cask, though sadly we at C&S have yet to sample this particular icon. Recently, and surprisingly to many, Thornbridge announced they would be canning beers which was a reversal to their policy – they had previously been open that they didn’t think canning could match the quality of bottling but improvements in the ability to keep dissolved oxygen to acceptable levels changed their minds.
When you think of beer from the big supermarkets, you probably think of 18 packs of Carling and Carlsberg stacked high in the aisles, often associated with a sporting event or a sunny bank holiday weekend. There’s no doubt that mainstream lagers are massive sellers so it’s no surprise to see craft lagers now appearing on the shelves, vying for a place in our fridge – but what do these lagers offer that the more established brands don’t?
We tasted three that were easily available from our local Tesco store to find out… READ MORE
