Pint By The River – Fuller’s Vintage Ale 2007 8.5%
by Ben McCormick On my first day at work – at ASDA in Chadderton – I was sent to the warehouse for a long weight. Not wishing to disappoint, I strode up to the supervisor and said what I’d come for. He directed me to the ‘Goods In’ entrance hatch. “Over there,” he barked, with [...]
Pint by the River – Purity: Pure Ubu
by Roger Clapham. Earlier this year, my friend Matt was enthusiastically telling me about Purity’s Pure Ubu (pronounced “oo-boo”). “Bloody great” he claimed. After some years of dedicated imbibing Matt knows his way round a drink or two, so I kept an eye out for it and soon hit paydirt when I discovered it on [...]
Caught By The River Wandle
Andrew writes: Back in February 2009, Robin and I fortuitously bumped into David, a brewer who had recently helped Duncan Sambrook start his own brewery, the aptly named Sambrook’s of Battersea. The timing couldn’t have been better as we were settled in at The Cow on Westbourne Park Road drinking their maiden beer, ‘Wandle’ ale [...]
Pint by the River – Tomos Watkin’s Cwrw Haf
by Roger Clapham Wales. “Land of our fathers” to the locals, merely land of my father-in-law to me. I’ve spent the last few summers (and more) visiting Wales and I’ve never suffered from the lack of a good pint there. As you might expect there’s plenty on offer, from the likes of regional breweries such [...]
Pint by the River – Sambrook’s Junction (4.9%)
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Pint by the River – Bath Ales: Gem
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Pint by the River – Titanic Anchor 4.1%
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Pint by the River – Shepherd Neame: Whitstable Bay Ale
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Pint by the River – Tactical Nuclear Penguin 32%
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Pint by the River – Hog’s Back Brewery TEA 4.2%
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Caught by the River