I just realised that I forgot to blog about yesterday’s advent beer. Sorry for keeping you all on tenterhooks like that! To be honest I…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Year: 2005
What’s on your desktop background? Some bland corporate logo perhaps, or maybe one of the bog-standard Windows wallpapers, or maybe a photograph you took years…
It’s over a month now since Visual Studio 2005 officially RTM’d, and during that time I’ve been fortunate enough to have been using it for…
Ah, I do enjoy beers by the Wychwood Brewery, who have a particularly good website (i.e. better than most of the brewery sites I’ve come…
Rosey Nosey by Bateman’s Brewery has a deceptively cutesy name – it actually turned out to be a really decent quality ale, with plenty of…
Another day, another beer. It’s a hard life. Mars Magic is a rather unexciting 4.6% ABV “Premium Ale” (it says here) from the Wold Top…
Wednesday night’s tipple was the rather strange 5% ABV Kronenbourg Blanc, from UK brewing giant Scottish & Newcastle. Described as a “refreshing, fruity white beer”,…
A return to form today, with the vase of fate serving up a helping of Riggwelter, the Black Sheep Brewery’s delicious 4.7% strong Yorkshire ale.…
Today’s festive ale is the Teignworthy Christmas Cracker, a strong (6% ABV) dark and warming malty bottle conditioned ale from deepest Devon. Um, it’s OK,…
Another superb ale tonight, from close to home. Nightmare, by the Hambleton Ales micro-brewery in Thirsk, is an extremely creamy, fruity, flavoursome stout – not…