Category: Beer Battles

In celebration of St. Andrew’s Day (although a slightly delayed celebration), we sampled these five brews from five different Scottish Breweries which one was our beer of the night?

Back in September, we headed down to London for the Love & Beer Festival. With so many beers on offer, we couldn’t try them all in one day, so we grabbed a selection of collab beers to take home, but which one was our favourite?

Harviestoun is a Scottish brewery, located at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Alva. Their beers have won various awards over the years, and four from our selection feature in a book called 1001 Beers to Try Before You Die.

The Orkney brewery is located on the Orkney Islands. They use traditional methods and brew with British barley and Orcadian water.

In this battle, we try five La Trappe beers – a Witte, a Blond, a Dubbel, a Tripel and a Quadrupel. We started with the Witte as it was the lowest ABV, then we tried the Blond, followed by the Tripel, before moving on to the dark beers – the…

I was lucky enough to visit Lovelane Brewery in Liverpool when I was invited to speak at an event there back in 2023. It’s a lovely little brewery, bar, and kitchen, and I’d recommend dropping by for drinks or food if you’re in the area. More and more of their…

We do love a good Yorkshire brewery and have tried a couple of SALT beers in the past. Since more of their beers have started appearing on supermarket shelves, we decided to feature a few in a SALT battle.

In the run-up to St Patrick’s Day, there’s a lot of talk about Irish Stouts – Guinness in particular. But we decided to battle some English Stouts from some pretty well-known breweries – three from the south and one from the north.

We love supporting our local breweries and Ilkley is just a short train ride away, so we decided to include a selection of their beers in March’s new brews.

Not just a new brew, but a new brewery for us – we’ve never tried any beers from Bristol-based Wiper and True before, so we decided to sample a few from their range.

Kirkstall Brewery is another Leeds-based brewery that we absolutely love. We’ve tried several of their beers before, including two from this selection – Virtuous (several times on draft) and Three Swords (on cask in a village pub) but we’ve added some new brews into the mix.

We’ve tried a fair few Vocation beers over the years including a selection from their core range, so we decided to treat ourselves to some more. Eight beers is a bit much for a Thursday night (even when we’re splitting them), so we spread these over three nights, with a…