If you know me or of me, you will know I like beer. Over the last few years I have been collecting photos of every new beer I have.
I now have over 2,000 individual beers photographed and have realised that many beers that I assumed I have photos of, I haven't.

This blog will be therefore be an account of my quest for new beers to photo and how I enjoyed them (or not).
My email is ralphgant@sky.com.

Thursday 2 April 2020

More beers from our away trip in March.

More of the beers I had on our trip to the Lake District at the beginning of march, before we were all confined to our homes. These are all from the Great Newsome brewery and they were given to me by Nicole, Tim, Georgia, Emily and Syd, on that Sundy, for my birthday. As with the previous beers though from Hawkshead, I had had some of them before but a lot more, so will do them later in another post.

Great Newsome, Cold Snap from England

Great Newsome, Cold Snap, England Great Newsome, Cold Snap, England

5.2% gold in colour with a thin head, malt and hop aroma, the taste was of hoppy lager

Great Newsome, Holderness Dark from England

Great Newsome, Holderness Dark, England Great Newsome, Holderness Dark, England

4.3% deep brown in colour with a nice head, rost malt aroma, the taste is mild and toffee

Wednesday 1 April 2020

Beer, from before the Virus

During our trip away before the Coronavirus took hold, I did manage to have some new beers and some of them were very good indeed. I had all of these at Keswick Reach Lodge Retreat were we were for Dot's birthday. I did have more than this, after all we were there for a week but I will make a start here.

The first ones were all Hawkshead beers,

Hawkshead, Windermere Pale from England

Hawkshead, Windermere Pale, England Hawkshead, Windermere Pale, England

3.5% gold in colour with a thin head, some hopps in the aroma but the taste was quite good.

Hawkshead, Brodie's Prime Porter from England

Hawkshead, Brodie's Prime Porter, England Hawkshead, Brodie's Prime Porter, England

4.9% black in colour with a good head, a slightly sweet aroma, with a nice roasted toffee taste.

These are the only two new beers from Hawkshead I had but I did have another one from them, only I only have the old photo with the old label.

Hawkshead, Lakeland Gold from England

Hawkshead, Lakeland Gold, England Hawkshead, Lakeland Gold, England

4.4% dark gold colour with a good head, hop aroma and citrus hop taste, nice.

Tuesday 31 March 2020

March, Beer and Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Since my last post, the world has changed, we had a trip away at the beginning of March but have been in the house ever since. Coronavirus has had some of us isolated for longer than some others, as I have asthma and it may not be any good for me. The pair of us also suffer from atrial fibrillation, so we are taking no chances at all. The Motorhome is just parked up, I did not use it much at all last year and this year I doubt we will get any use out of it again.

When all of this is over, I am taking the van to France for a long holiday but we do not know when that will be.

Saying all that, I have had quite a few new beers during March and have plenty left to last through April and probably May. As well as the beers I already had in, I found that you can still order beers in fairly easily. So I have got in beers that I actually like and one especially from our local big brewery.

I think it is strange that I can get as much beer as I want delivered to the house but food, that is a different matter. None of the big supermarkets will deliver, thay are all fully booked, good job we have two freezers and plenty of meat. Dot even got up early today and went to our local shops for some salad, milk and chocolate.

It will take a few posts to cover all of the new beers I have had during march, so let's get started.

St. Peter's, Stormtrooper Galactic Pale Ale from England

St. Peter's, Stormtrooper Galactic Pale Ale, England

4.2% pale amber in colour with a nice head, fruity aroma and a bitter taste.

The Garden Brewery, Vanilla & Chocolate Porter from Croatia

The Garden Brewery, Vanilla & Chocolate Porter, Croatia

6.7% black in colour with a nice head, good vanilla aroma and a nice sweet chocolate taste.

Gipsy Hill, Baller from England

Gipsy Hill, Baller, England

5.4% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, citrus hop aroma and taste, too much.

Yeastie Boys, Pot Kettle Black from New Zealand

Yeastie Boys, Pot Kettle Black, New Zealand

6.0% almost black in colour with a good head, a sweet aroma, with a very good licorice porter taste.