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f brevity i haven t bothered to try and define what constitutes a goto beer use your own interpretative powers you won t be far off no particular order 1 rodenbach grand cru i m drinking one now it s a sour funky pleasure 2 svyturys baltas a delicious white hefeweizen from lithuania the best looking beer on the planet 3 jever my favourite lager a dry grass temptress 4 lion stout smooth strong supremely drinkable i ve just entered a competition to win a case of this on facebook 5 westmalle tripel i have a thing for tripels this may well be my favourite is it yours 6 brodies london lager i want this every moment of the day you don t know how much i want it 7 cantillon gueuze i used to underrate it i no longer do so the fact that the craven arms now sells it for a bargain price may have something to do with my new found glowing fondness for it 8 ska modus hoperandi a canned ipa yes squelchingly hoppy and delectable 9 oakham green devil if only they d continue to bottle it sob 11 schneider hopfenweisse a booming weizen bock with us hops always a source of fulfilment 12 fruh kolsch you d have to be demented not to love kolsch and or be able to differentiate between different kolschs 13 thornbridge jaipur discussed ad nauseum for good reason sorry that was a bit short i ll try to feed you some birmingham beer bash snippets in the upcoming weeks for the avoidance of doubt this is not a sponsored post no one would be stupid enough to pay me for this rubbish however if you are loaded and gullible why not buy me a few crates of beer i ll make it worth your while x i won t posted by dan brown at tuesday may 07 2013 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels birmingham beer bash saturday 23 march 2013 march monthly report full of great stuff realised that i hadn t written anything for over a month felt shame farced so decided to rectify this is a sort of headline thing where i write something about a number of different things meaning topic ok 1 report on booze free january pretty rubbish really a silly idea to give up booze proved nothing to no one at least i managed it though good old me in fact the first couple of weeks were really hard but it did get easier i ended up dreaming about the aroma of particular beers and looking longingly at beautifully captured beer images true story that you know the weirdest thing on the day that i was once again able to drink i didn t really fancy a beer anyway i still had one or two but didn t massively enjoy it why hard to say but i think abstinence attached a sense of guilt to the drinking which i couldn t just turn off on 1st feb it lingered also interestingly during booze free january i felt rubbish my health was up and down and low level depression which perhaps would ordinarily have been chased away by beer was instead allowed to drag it s heals might not bother next year 2 birmingham beer bash update eagle eyed viewers will have been pleased to see the recent bbb updates regarding the involvement of purity freedom and thornbridge this is really fabulous news and shows the world and ourselves that we mean business this is real we saw our venue in action at the recent whisky birmingham festival it is such a cool place the canal the railway arch the rooms the space everything points to a chilled out venue for a buzzing beer sipping experience our logo is now out and looks grrrreat our website will be launched shortly and at that point you ll be able to bag your tickets 3 memorable beer tasting evening myself and two great chums convened round the house of one of them one evening in mid february and supped a simmering succession of some of the greatest beers ever brought together on an occasion when i ve been present 3 fonteinen armand 4 oude geuze herfst a peerless gueuze rodenbach caractère rouge a marvellous sour flemish red ale struise black albert and bone crunching imperial stout the bruery tart of darkness a scintillating and pretty much perfect sour ale magic rock clown juice a thick and sweet draft belgian wit alesmith wee heavy scotch ale a malt heavy us scotch ale nøgne ø citrus hystrix ipa a fruity ipa evil twin even more jesus a big smooth and brutish imperial stout cantillon mamouche a blisteringly good elderflower lambic ragutis smetoniška duonos gira an almost undrinkable kvass which featured the most rankest stench ever encountered in a beer the company was excellent the cheese was great top unprecedented quality all round 4 craven arms makes it a hattrick birmingham s brand new craft beer quarter now has a third spoke in it s erm tripod the craven arms formerly a lovely but scary place has now been acquired by black country ales and is being landlorded by friend of mediocre beer adventures chris sherratt offering a range of handpulled bitters cobs and cantillon gueuze at 3 90 the craven has quickly vaulted towards the top of my birmingham pub ranking system dbprs add in the fact that it sits atop a lovely hill behind the mailbox the other fact that it has comfortable seating and the erm other and third probably last also fact that it is very easy to pop into the victoria and or brewdog on your way there back and you have a winner on many all fronts fronts yes fronts best i ll insert their names if they allow me well he said hello when i walked up to the bar and thanks when i paid for my drinks posted by dan brown at saturday march 23 2013 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels beerage birmingham beer bash craven arms tuesday 19 february 2013 taking ones own advices some while ago i wrote a post about the ideal birmingham pub crawl it s here now over the course of the year this has proved to be quite popular in so far as my blog statistics appear to show this post also seems to have had bursts of sporadic popularity where i am gratified to say people appear to be actually using it to plan real life crawls so i decided to do the same the opportunity throated itself when my long standing and brilliant chum joneso76 came a visiting from leicester he s fairly new to twitter and had quickly become enraptured by the exciting adventures that the west midlands beer community always seemed to be involved in so on arrival in brum he begged for the chance to hit as many hot spots as possible during his one day duration this situation seemed set up for revisiting as many of the locations on my ideal pub crawl as could reasonably be fisted into a day before my arrival in the centre jones already ticked off brewdog and walked past post office vaults 2 down we rendezvoused in the victoria where we were honoured to be the first people in the pub to ever sample cask magic rock in fact we were possibly the first people to ever sample cask magic rock in the whole history of birmingham ku dos it was curious it was history after the victoria it was back to brewdog for some delicious mikkeller beer geek breakfast and a chance meeting with two of birmingham s foremost international beer connoisseurs hazel and david unfortunately brewdog didn t have any lager from bhutan so they had to drink something nice instead ho hum next up citra and delicious thai grub at the bartons having walked through bacchus en route the bartons never disappoints although the lack of bottled green devil ipa did remind me just how baffled i am that oakham will no longer be bottling it madness from there to the lord clifden where it was yeasty budvar and one of the city s most impressive hand dryers the lc is an urban art bar as is the red lion which i ll come to in a minute but before that it was the drop forge and a pint of malvern hills black pear what a smart place so then the red lion for more lager this time some estaminet pils which was extremely tasty and served in a splendid ribbed beaker golf finally for a quick pint of bathams which turned into several it was to the ever and always brilliant black eagle it has been too long since i visited this esteemed and fabulous location which seems to transcend the vicissitudes of beer fashion so i made the most of my stay 1 free chips 2 bathams served in tip top condition 3 dancing with and for the entertainment of an older and surprisingly sprightly clientele old ladies if i say one thing about the above mentioned pub crawl it is this it was brilliant if i say a second thing it s that birmingham has loads of great boozers and sometimes i forget that i increasingly find myself drawn to a handful of crafty joints in the city centre these days but in order to de narrow my beerview perhaps i need to be more stringent in making sure i remember to visit the other venues of legend in this the second city in the coming weeks i will endeavour to bring you posts on the following i the greatest beer tasting evening i ve ever known ii my reflections on a booze free january iii an update on the birmingham beer bash posted by dan brown at tuesday february 19 2013 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bartons arms birmingham black eagle brewdog drop forge lord clifden red lion victoria monday 11 february 2013 the 2013 top ten movers and shakers on the birmingham beer scene a year ago i done a blog post which i was actually rather proud of it constructed a list of the 10 most influential people in birmingham s crazy world of good beer 12 months on and much has changed or is in the process of changing therefore we need to do a follow up the only slight problem is that the formulae used to determine how influential people were are and therefore where they ranked in the list has disappeared into the mists of time in fact these formulae may never have existed in the first place as such these ten are served up to you in alphabetical order by surname annnnnnnnnnnyway here is this years list the top ten movers and shakers on the birmingham beer scene for 2013 nigel barker wellington and post office vaults the wellington yet again took camra s top prize as the birmingham pub of the year but it was with nigel s newer venture the post office vaults that he made the biggest impact on birmingham this year with a mind boggling range of belgian and german beers crammed into a tiny space the pov has quickly become a staple of any birmingham pub crawl and finally finally offers somewhere for us to consistently drink world classics such as orval rodenbach grand cru and de molen vuur and vlam tiny rebel often feature on cask too which is a big plus strictly speaking this ranking is sort of shared between him and mike perkins with them both being co owners of the pov whilst nigel is sole licensee of the welly dr paul bennett beer geek brewery launched in february 2012 beer geek are a common sight in the pubs of birmingham plus their excellent branding is now being recognised in london and other faraway places following the demise of the two towers brewery tap at the brown lion beer geek are now brum s most recognisable local brewer and have the chance to broaden their range to seriously tickle the fancy of the city s swelling band of actual beer geeks marverine cole beer beauty not just an award winning beer blogger and former sky news presenter this local girl come good is also a veritable tour de force banging the good beer gospel on television and radio as in here savvy well connected and glamorous marverine is ideally placed to use her national celebrity and local pride to bear on the birmingham beer scene with hopefully marv ellous results paul halsey purity if this list had been written in a few months time i would expect paul to be higher up the list this would be because of the projected opening of the purity craft beer bar which is i believe due to touch down near john bright street to form along with brewdog birmingham the victoria and the also imminent craven arms the city s craft beer quarter however as it stands we don t yet know what the new place will look like purity mad goose is still delicious however and with their three beers still being ubiquitous in birmingham paul is still a shaker jaz and kal kandola cotteridge wines this time last year i didn t even know that cotteridge wines existed now they are a nationally recognised off licence with a range of 700 800 different bottles offering access to us brewers not previously glimpsed in our city it is an astonishing rise via a twin assault of well priced uk craft beers and a big range too plus access to foreign beers mikkeller evil twin anchorage bruery et al cotteridge now present an irresistible offer which has undoubtedly diversified the craft beer audience in birmingham gerry keane the anchor the anchor keeps rocking and rolling the line up of great cask beers keeps coming with a excellent representation of lesser known brewers from around the country also their range of beery events is as impressive as ever dan muldoon brewdog birmingham finally in december the big boys arrived brewdog undoubtedly the superbrand of uk craft brewing finally killed off brum s reputation as a desert for kegged craft beer with a dozen or so taps of unadulterated quality bd now bring us their own highly flavoured offerings plus guest beers we would previously have had to get to london to sample nogne mikkeller evil twin brodies etc with imperial stouts such as tokyo ab 12 and paradox they are the first place to offer high strength beers on tap with regulars such as dogfight punk ipa and 5am saint they are pretty much the only place in brum to guarantee hoppy draught choices two big pluses since opening they have also killed off the myth that birmingham couldn t support such a craft establishment or that there simply wasn t the demand in our great city for premium beers the place is rammed each night go figure with a de molen tap takeover on the horizon and other such events in the pipeline we now have a place to light up the beery imagination of a generation and blaze a trail for independent outlets to follow he built it we came jen nadin cherry reds cherry reds is a wonderfully homely and friendly bar cafe in kings heath which has made a concerted effort to stock good beer in bottles and on tap jen has also programmed a consistent range of themed beer tasting events and a held their second annual beer festival last august this would be enough to earn jen a place on this list but coupled with her participation in the foreign beer bar at the birmingham beer festival and perhaps more intriguingly the projected opening of a city centre version of cherry reds this year jen is right at the heart of the good things which are afoot krishan rajput stirchley wines and spirits krishan and his father are brum beer pioneers perhaps last year was the year where we saw his spiritual children begin to emerge blinking into the birmingham sunlight stirchley wines and spirits continues to be a nationally recognised off licence with an awesome range of bottles plus they now have their own tap offering fresh draught craft beer to t...