Category: Monthly Round-Ups

We kicked off December with a belated St. Andrew’s celebration where we battled five Scottish brews. We also added a Tripel battle to our 2024 Belgian Beer Battle. In mid-December, we headed over to Munich for a weekend of Christmas markets, sightseeing and beer-related activities. And of course, we’ve been out…

This month we’ve had some amazing beers at home, including a fantastic selection from Harviestoun and eight collabs brewed for the Love & Beer Festival. We also found an exclusive Trappist beer on tap and tried an interesting Belgian Blue. But which beers came out on top?

October started with a trip to North’s Springwell for their Oktoberfest event before heading to Cape Verde for a lovely beach break and some Cape Verdean brews. We also battled five Chimay beers, revised an official Oktoberfest beer and tried our first green-hopped beer.

September included another trip up to Newcastle (this time for the Great North Run) another trip to Sheffield (for the 10k run) and some new brews at home. But the beer highlight of the month was a trip down to London for the Love & Beer Festival. 

We started with a Yorkshire Day beer battle, a visit to the Middleton Railway food and beer festival and a trip over to Manchester to check out the Track and Cloudwater taprooms. The middle of the month saw us stop off in Sheffield for a couple of cask ales at…

This month, we were lucky enough to spend a week in Belgium, undoubtedly one of the best beer-producing countries in the world. We spent three nights in Bruges, four nights in Brussels, and snuck in a day trip across the border to Lille. And with two brewery tours and lots…

We started June in Porto, Portugal – an absolutely beautiful city. As you can imagine, Port Wine (and wine) is everywhere in Porto, so our focus was on grape not grain. That said, we managed to seek out a couple of locally brewed beers, including one that made it into…

May was a pretty busy beer month for us as we started the month with a trip to Wales, attended the North Leeds Food Festival mid-month, and finished the month celebrating Alex’s birthday with a family meal and a day out and about in Leeds. Our New Brew Thursday’s involved…

April saw us head to Piglove by the River for a Jazz night, battle a selection of SALT beers, and revisit one of our favourite stouts. We also tried to improve our ability to identify individual hops by trying various single-hop beers, one of which made it into our top…

March was a big month for stouts – we battled some well-known English stouts, sampled various stouts from Guinness as part of our St Patrick’s Day celebrations, and discovered some exceptional barrel-aged stouts from Yorkshire-based breweries. We also battled some light beers from Ilkley Brewery and attended the Craft and…