Spring has arrived, I think. The season has started off with some excitement, after the success of Maid In Norfolk, the first collaboration beer brewed by Norfolk Broads Brewing Company (Humpty Dumpty) as a celebration of 25 years of ownership. It was launched at the Great British Beer Festival Winter, but what also made it…
Last month our area was on a national stage in the beer world. Norwich welcomed the Great British Beer Festival to St Andrews Hall. Along side this ran the Fringe festival in the local pubs and a Beer & Fine Dining Experience at the Maids Head Hotel. This fine dining experience was an opportunity to…
This region has just had the pleasure of hosting the National Winter Beer Festival in Norwich where it will be held for the next 2 years. It was wonderful to see local products grown in the region celebrated by the inclusion of local brewery bars (Woodfordes, Lacons, Green Jack and Norfolk Brewhouse (Maris Otter bar))…
Last month I committed myself to try a new place every week, I have to admit, not failure, but adaption. This is what happened, Try January turned in to Retry January. I found myself going to places that I had not been to for a while (sometimes even years) I also started to do the…
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…
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…