The Fun of Beer Festival Volunteering!
Easter weekend – eggs, chicks, hot cross buns? Not for me – for me it was volunteering at the inaugural Hop City Festival at Northern Monk in Leeds. I’d been to Leeds only a few weeks before to help...
View ArticleThe First Brum Beer Babs Meet Up!
The Babs and Alex from Five Points Get the 26th of April 2017 in your calendars – it’s hopefully going to be remembered as a momentous day! It marks the very first meet up of the Brum Beer Babs a...
View ArticleStone Berlin and Greg Koch
One of the main reasons Deb & I wanted to go to Berlin was to visit the recently opened restaurant “World Bistro and Gardens” and brewery of Stone Brewing since we’d had a few friends singing its...
View ArticleCans Film Festival at The Electric Cinema
As a fan of both film and beer you can imagine how happy I was to read about the ‘Cans Film Festival’ which is running at The Electric Cinema over the summer. For those of you who don’t know The...
View ArticleMoseley Beer Festival – Birmingham Beer Week Events
With Birmingham Beer Week quickly approaching one of the events we are looking forward to the most is The Dark Horse’s Moseley Craft Beer Festival. We have been excited by the beers they have...
View ArticleBirmingham Beer Week – Opportunity for Adventure and New Discoveries
It starts! Well, it actually started yesterday with the fine fellows at Brum Vegan Beer & Food Fest, but today marks the first day of the Birmingham Beer Week, an opportunity for the drinkers of...
View ArticleGoskino vs Burning Soul – 27th July
Ahead of Goskino playing at Burning Soul, this Thursday (27th), I dropped both the band and the brewery a few questions to find out how the gig had come about and what people could expect. I started...
View ArticleWarwick Beer Festival 21st – 22nd July 2017
Warwick is renowned for its Castle and its proximity to tourist hotspot Stratford on Avon. Warwick is not renowned for many beery events. However, every July for the last few years, Warwick Racecourse...
View ArticleNot Long Now…Birmingham Beer Bazaar is almost here!
After all the delights and highlights of Birmingham Beer Week last month it’s time to look forward to the next event on the local beer calendar, the inaugural Beer Bazaar. Taking place from August 17th...
View ArticleThe Canal House Birmingham
When we received the opportunity to attend the press night for New World Trading’s newest Birmingham venue, The Canal House, we were intrigued, especially when we heard they had over ’60 ales on...
View ArticleHappy St Davids Day
Did you know that Pink Floyd released “Dark Side of the Moon” on March 1st in 1973? Well this year that date might not produce something quite so awe inspiring, but for beer drinkers in the West...
View ArticleLock & Key Beer Con
Lock and Key Beer Con Press Release A New Independent Beer Festival for The Midlands Comes to Birmingham A brand new independent beer festival is coming to the second city this summer, celebrating the...
View ArticleBirmingham Beer Week returns in July 2018
Birmingham Beer Week – Press Release Birmingham Beer Week is a week-long celebration of Brum’s epic beer scene and the culture that makes this city so great! With a rich brewing history that is...
View ArticleA Brummie’s Eye Over The GBBF
The Great British Beer Festival. CAMRA’S showpiece of the year returned once again to the Kensington Olympia in London. This was my third visit in a row and on this occasion I decided to do something...
View ArticleZwanze Day Comes to Birmingham
On Saturday 29th September Clink will host Cantillon Brewery’s Zwanze Day. This is a big deal, this is a very big deal for Birmingham and its burgeoning beer scene. Lovers of Belgian beers, Lambics...
View ArticleIt’s a Wrap – News Round-Up – 10/06/2016
In Case You Missed It The anticipation builds for Birmingham Beer Bash (@birminghamcubed) as the announcements keep coming. Brewers announced so far include Thornbridge, Freedom, Sacre Brew, Fixed...
View Article“All the Pig, All the Time” at Peel & Stone Harborne
Only 12 hours after landing back in the UK after our holiday my husband Dave and I were sitting in the cosy surroundings of Peel and Stone in Harborne ready to start our ‘All the Pig, All the Time’...
View ArticleMBBC Social and brewery crawl on Dec 3rd
We were very pleased over the last few days (Nov 10th – 12th) to see 6/8 cafe have a resounding success with their little mini beer festival which we had given them a bit of advice on, the main part...
View Article6/8 Kafe Basement Bar Opening Night – 2nd Dec 2016
Back at the start of December I popped along to the official opening night of the basement bar at 6/8 Kafe. A few weeks before I’d been to their successful craft beer festival, featuring a number of...
View ArticleHappy St Davids Day
Did you know that Pink Floyd released “Dark Side of the Moon” on March 1st in 1973? Well this year that date might not produce something quite so awe inspiring, but for beer drinkers in the West...
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