As you are reading this the Turkey has finally been finished (we hope). You like the idea of hiding the Christmas jumper and in most cases we are all thinking how did we manage to eat all those mince pies/chocolates/sausage rolls etc? Now is the time we feel the need to make resolutions and eat…
This year one of our now award winning tours took in the delights of 2 of my favourite Belgian cities, Bruges and Ghent. Using Belle coaches and our calm driver Mark (he seems to be able to manage with my, ‘its down this road somewhere’) We travelled to our hotel in Ghent and the first…
Autumn has arrived with ice winds, crisp mornings and shopping. This is the time I start to think comfort beers, gone are the summer bright, floral, hoppy, Golden’s and income, Bitters with their nutty caramel notes, such as Lacons Affinity. This beer has a smooth malty base that imparts warm nutty notes with a russet…
Autumn has arrived with a punch, the trees are showing off all their colours from the crimson of Maples leaves, to the soft sweet apricot of Elms and the deep brown of the mighty Oak. This is the time I start to think comfort beers, gone are the spring and summer bright floral hoppy Goldens…
The last few weeks have been dominated by preparations for Norwich Beer Festival, an event I started to plan in February, along with a lot of other volunteers. This year has been different as the new Bar Manager for the Foreign and Bottled Bar. I have compiled the beer list (for this bar) and learnt…
This month has been a little different for me, we had a fantastic beer festival in Reepham with Panther and the volunteers at Porkstock raised over £10,000 for Nelson’s Journey. I have then been on my travels visiting breweries and seeing first hand the Craft Beer scene in Barcelona. Finally I have ended the month…
I write this as the sun is shining and with a light crisp lager to the side of me. It is during the summer that I truly realise how lucky I am to live in this region, the reason being that right now we are in the height of the beer festival season and if…
The sun is shining for a short time and on my travels around Norfolk I have realised what a great range of different watering holes there are in the county, so for this month’s Nibbles & Tipples (yes we finally have a name) I am going to take you to a few different little places…
Gin I have always been a lover of food and drink, one of my sayings, ‘ is to try everything once.’ This is a saying that I have applied to food, leading to the eating of Snails, Frogs legs and even Whelks. I do draw the line at anything with more than 4 legs though.…