Raspberry Saision - The Durham Brewery

       Drink name                 Drink makers                 Drink type              Drink strength
   Raspberry Saison           Durham Brewery            ? Bitter... Stout ?           5.8%


Another drink from the Durham Brewery! This ones a limited edition raspberry flavored one.

No opening a beer, ale, stout, cider etc I usually contemplate the smells emanating from the bottle. On opening this bottle some of the contents exploded out of the bottle in a very happy manner but luckily my close caught most of the drink and I can say without a doubt that this beverage and also indeed my trousers smell is very fruity.

The color is dark and impenetrable like a frozen bar of bournville chocolate! Which is apt as the drink its self infact tastes like a fruity bit of chocolate that had a collision with stout.
I ate some chocolate covered cherries once and this reminds me of it.

It's nice. I like a good stout and I can't seem to but this one down. If I finish it off too soon I may have to resort to sucking on m trousers just to prolong the experience (don't worry, they were clean on today).

Looking at the bottle it does say that the bottle may be a bit lively and to have a bottle it hand, though I'd recommend a bucket or maybe open it in the bath just in caste.
 It also says that this batch consists of 1500 bottles only and that it has a hint of ginger in it... I can't taste that... oh and something to do with a Brewdog collaboration.

MAN THIS STUFF IS GOOD! 
















tasty rating
Good as a drink 9/10 Good as a beer 9/10
Can't put down factor10/10
Good at getting you drunk 6/10
Bottle art 8/10
Rated = 84ish out of 100%
The ruiner of trousers

www.durhambrewery.co.uk

Light Bitter - North East England

      Drink name                 Drink makers                 Drink type              Drink strength
      Magus                         The Durham Brewery    Bitter                      3.8%

AH-HA! A Bitter brewed  in the North East, not too far from my neck of the woods!
Plus its a beer that matures in the bottle with live sediment. exciting.
I've been looking for local brewers and micro breweries lately and was happy to  find this ones produce accidentally whilst on a bike ride threw Norton high street at a butcher/bakers called Blackwells.

The bottle's label caught my eye with it's Celtic-like cross and writing that instantly made me start humming the theme tune from Farther Ted. Like it.

This one I'm trying now is called Magus and is a light bitter.
On opening I can tell that there is a strong citrus smell to this bitter and on poring I wish I'd left it to settle more because I'm sure that it should not be as cloudy as it is! With these beers it's best to leave them standing upright (storage wise) but even then the drink will still probably be cloudyr that you expect.

The taste is incredible! Hops are the main taste hear but also wheat too and spice.  The flavor is bitter as expected and surprisingly right for it's pale color.

I'm looking forward to trying this brewery's other beverages.










tasty rating
Good as a drink 9/10 Good as a beer 10/10
Can't put down factor 9/10
Good at getting you drunk 4/10
Bottle art 9.5/10
Rated = 83ish out of 100%
North East England Bitter. Nice

www.durhambrewery.co.uk

burger - Angus

Made an Abadine Angus burger with blue cheese, tomato and lettice.

Cooked it in a George Forman grill and the fat that came off it was amazing.

But oh-no forgot the buns!!
It is a poor substitute for a bun when you have to cut bread into a slightly less square shape... but entertaining never the less.


I'd stopped off in Aldi to pick something up for a friend and found myself wandering around and picking things up. before I knew it I had practically made myself a burger.

Good prices in there but I'd stay away from their cheep coffee :p

Ale - stick toffee pudding flavor

 Drink name                         Drink makers             Drink type             Drink strength
Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale     Wells                        Ale                           5%

The flavor of stick toffee pudding? in an ale? surely that's more of a cider thing to do.
Wells does some nice different tastes in there range and I'm particularly fond of there banana bread beer ale.

This smells sweet, which isn't supprising, and has the sort of a lable you would expect from a drink with a toffee taste.
The drink it's self is lees pudding and more burnt toffee. It's good, don't get me wrong, but the dark ale taste is simaler to that of a chocloate stout I've sampled in the past.

Saying that. It is enjoyable and as I look over I've noticed that I'm almost half way down the bottle!
 You can't really go wrong with Wells though. they are a good brewer. .... oh, and the tiny lable under their name on the bottle says brewers since 1976! Never noticed that before.

If strong and sweet is your thing then this may just be the thing for you.


tasty rating
Good as a drink 8/10 Good as an ale 10/10
Can't put down factor 7/10
Good at getting you drunk 5/10
Bottle art 8/10
Rated = 76ish out of 100%
(whet I say good as a drink I mean refreshing or would taste good even if there was no alcohol in it. I may not think the same if the alcohol was replaced with badgers)

bitter wheat bear

 Drink name/ Drink makers                             Drink type                   Drink strength
 Revisionist Hefeweizen Wheat Beer              Wheat beer(bitter)         4.8%


 Hello Hello! Whats all this? We'll have not trouble here!
Ah-ha! An english wheat beer trying to improve on a classic German taste I see... Well we'll soon see about that.

I must admit to liking classic wheat beers so this one had better be good.

I quite the bottle and the simble on the bottle top is really good     in    my     opinion .

This is an exclusive for Tesco drink so I'm instantly on my gaurd. This could go any way as I've had their own alcohol ranges before and as long as you dont get their cheep beer/bitter/lager they are usually ok.

smells good!   just what you would expect in a wheat beer.

The taaste is .... is ... well, it tastes like an English version of a German wheat beer as it happens!

It is more bitter and less sweet so it might appeal to a wider pallet. Hops are strong in the taste with a .... a mildly fruity banana taste which is odd with the bitter in there but not unpleasant. Spicy too.

On the hole I could drink quite a bit of it but its not what I would choose to stock in a wheat beer just for myself but I can think of a few people who would like it.

Please though, give it a try if you like an unusual bitter because that's really what it is  ...

 a bitter

tasty rating
Good as a drink 7/10 Good as a beer 8/10
Can't put down factor 6/10
Good at getting you drunk 5/10
Bottle art 9/10
Rated = 70ish out of 100%
It's difference, I'll give it that.