St Pete’s Cream Stout

Stout, St Peter, England, 6.5% ABV Frankly I’m very surprised I’ve never written in-depth about St. Pete’s Cream Stout before, especially since I’ve been drinking in almost as long as I’ve been drinking beer. I credit my wife for finding it, when we still lived in Savannah GA In those 8 years since, we’ve actively [...]

India Empire Pale Ale

English Strong Ale, Burton Bridge Brewery, England, 7.5% ABV This beer was a huge surprise to drink, tasting nothing like what I was expecting. Pouring it from the bottle I had no idea what I was in for, well carbonated, a dark golden color with a pillowy white head, a quintessential English Ale.  At first [...]

Triple XB

English Pale Ale, Batemans, England, 4.5% ABV With great expectations I opened my bottle of  Triple XB, I got to enjoy it once before while up in Arlington VA, so when I saw a bottle of it in the store I jumped on the opportunity (again). Batemans’ creations are ones I associate with the term [...]

Organic Strawberry Fruit Beer 6/10

Fruit Beer, Melbourn Brothers (Samuel Smith), England, 5.1% ABV I’m a big fan of Samuel Smith beers, they are one of my favorite English brewers.  I’m also an equally big fan of their Organic Fruit Beer line, though I will admit that they are not what most people will think of as beer, but drinking [...]

Fiddler’s Elbow 8/10

Bitter,Wychwood Brewery, England, 4.5% Wychwood Brewery has always been one that I look for when shopping, and though Fiddler’s Elbow is not new to their line-up I had never tried it. The beer pours pale amber with a small amount of head, telling me it’s not highly carbonated, being aEnglish that’s not a surprise. The [...]

Wychcraft 9/10

Blond Ale, Wychwood, England 4.5% Pouring a bright amber yellow with a thin layer of white head, this ale creates the picture perfect image of English ales, which tend to be low in carbonation. However drinking it, there is a refreshing amount of small hard bubbles giving the beer a bit of a bumpy texture. [...]

Sorgham Beer 5.5/10

Special Grain Beer, St Peters, England, 4.2% ABV This is St Peter breweries gluten-free beer, thus containing no wheat or barley. To tell you the truth I first picked up this beer because of it’s name, in college we watched part of a Chinese movie called Red Sorghum, I have never been able to find [...]

Olde Suffolk 8.5/10

Old Ale, Greene King, England, 6% ABV Strong Suffolk, as this beer is also known, is made of a blend of two beers: Old 5X which is usually brewed at 12% ABV and then put in oak casks to mature for about 2 years (minimum), and BPA a dark beer freshly brewed and mixed in [...]

Samuel Smith’s Yorkshire Stingo 8/10

English Strong Ale, Samuel Smith, Tadcaster, England 8% ABV I’ve always been a fan of Samuel Smith’s beers, being one of my first ventures into the more craft side of English beer. I while back I saw a bottle of Stingo from them, I read the label, ale aged in oak casks for over a [...]

North Carolina Trip

While I was visiting my parents a couple of weeks ago I made another trip up to NC to visit some friends and my mother in-law. I was surprised and very happy to note that Greensboro-Highpoint area of North Carolina has a strong and thriving beer culture. I found many beers and breweries that I’ve [...]