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ost their jobs people have lost their businesses people have lost their lives but finally it feels to me anyway that we are all returning to some sort of normal to a life lived outside the home to a life in our chosen third places so it was with no small measure of delight that i boarded the 9 48 from leeds to sheffield on friday morning with a beer writing hero colleague and friend adrian tierney jones delight because i knew that i would have his undivided attention for the duration of the train journey and we hadn t seen each other for ooooh five years we talked of many things of friends and foes of death and attrition but the most notable finding from that journey was that we were both at new order s albert hall gig in october 1986 i was raving front of house he was interviewing the band backstage we were heading for sheffield s indie beer feast now in its fifth year or is it five years since the first one it s hard to know how to count it anyway jules and the team are hanging in there i was going because well shit this is what i always used to do this is what i m supposed to do this is what i like to do meet people make connections join dots not only mr tierney but also actual pete brown if adrian is a hero pete is a colossus he s got a couple of decades worth of writing chops filed away in a fast access data bank he s giving a tutored talk on one of evin s beers in 30 minutes but neither he nor evin another absolute titan know which beer but it doesn t matter because whatever you throw at pete he deals with and the beers a bretted table beer from red willow to start perfect kernel pale ale perfect d or mouse from smod crunchy and delicious rock leopard we must love or stars must fall snappy and complex mccoll s el capitan delicious neptune lost at sea delicious those last two were both absolutely banging west coast ipas which was better the jury s still out i had to run to a pre 4pm train anyway thank you indie beer feast for a few short hours today the stars aligned and you were perfection to me posted by zak avery at 21 36 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels indie beer feast mccoll s neptune brewery red willow rock leopard smod the kernel brewery sunday 12 february 2023 strip mining the christmas recycling preface this article contains links to beer ritz i haven t written the article just to include the links but in these lean times it feels perverse not to include them everyone always assumed i blogged to publicise the various businesses and enterprises i was involved in so eventually here we are i ve only just got round to taking the christmas glass recycling to the bottle bank yes that s incredibly slovenly but it didn t need emptying until just now this doesn t necessarily signify a reduction in my drinking cans go in the green bin now although it s true that i do drink a lot less these days but it was interesting to work through a few seams of empty bottles to the bottom of the bin and remind myself of what i chose to drink and share over christmas first up the kernel how do i love thee let me count the ways into the mixed glass recycling pod quite a lot really they brewery were kind enough to send us a selection case for christmas but i already had table beer and a couple of pale ales in the cellar anyway like the fall as john peel had it they are always the same and always different they are simple and satisfying delicious and drinkable heroic and humdrum and for the brewery who coined the london murky style their beers are now remarkably haze free working down past the christmas day wines past the michters one bottle a year on my birthday we get to the belgians three bottles of each two from st bernardus the tripel and the peerless christmas ale their abt is still a go to of mine but abt and xmas seemed like a surfeit of riches the tripel was there as a foil to westmalle triple a sort of a taste off trying to answer a question about how triples work i didn t find an answer but the clues all point to the yeast westmalle yeast seems to produce a drier cleaner beer st bernardus a rounder sweeter beer i guess this explains why st bernardus darker beers are all sensational but the tripel slightly flabby and the westmalle tripel arguably the classic of the style but the westmall dubbel lacking in complexity more research needed outliers de ranke pere noel not bought to test a theory or out of love and loyalty but just because it was there and well why not de ranke s beers are genuinely world class and pere noel has a delicious pine resin note to it that smells like christmas trees to my nose and poperings hommel just because i d had a bottle of ridgeway very bad elf that was so stuffed with classic hops that it reminded me of hommel and it was ages since i d last had one posted by zak avery at 18 28 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels beer ritz de ranke hommel st bernardus the kernel brewery westmalle friday 1 april 2022 taps mic is this still working where is it posting to posted by zakavery at 15 32 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 5 august 2017 craft beer fubu or why people get upset when breweries get sold i haven t blogged properly in a while ha a while largely because i haven t had anything constructive to say that doesn t stop many bloggers but i really got to a point where i felt i d said everything useful and of course once you have a financial interest in the game everyone should take anything you say with a pinch of salt so what s the point in blogging if people are just going to argue with or ignore you but the recent spate of takeovers and reactions to them makes me want to say something i m not sure where to start so lets talk about the most recent anchor being bought by sapporo it isn t the first time in its history that the brewery has been bought out the heroic stewardship of fritz maytag was of course the result of a buyout albeit of a company that was by all accounts on its arse people get emotionally invested in stuff to an extent that seems irrational to some when a brewery is sold i think it s natural to re evaluate how you feel about that i totally get that some breweries need to sell when the owner gets older or gets bored with the grind of running a business or just wants to cash out but it s important that everyone looks at what has happened and asks if they feel differently now it s important that people do this because it matters where you spend you money and who you decide to finance arguably as political power is ceded to a global elite how you spend your money is your last source of political influence if you want to give your money to someone who is making beer with great determination but little critical acclaim that s fine it s your money if you want to give your money to local breweries because they are local to you even if they aren t world beaters that s fine it s your money if you want to give your money to breweries that are the flavour of the month killing it on ratebeer that s fine it s your money but it s important to think about it all of these choices are subjective driven by the same sort of irrational notions that drive me to buy bright yellow new balance trainers or to make people queue for hours outside breweries for limited releases so when sapporo buy anchor i m pleased to see people ask how we should feel about it when lagunitas sell 50 to heineken it s good to question how we feel about it and then when lagunitas sell the other half we should at least think again because your money is the only thing that will make a difference and ballast point and camden and meantime and who next it s fine to change your mind about how you feel based on new information that s what grown ups do it would be a shame if you didn t let things change you or at least make you re evaluate things is your favourite brewery the same if someone new owns it i don t know the answer to that but at least ask yourself the question the reason i feel strongly about this is because of course it s my livelihood and i ve spent the last 17 years following the fubu principle i can t define craft beer but as far as i m concerned it s for us by us so every time abinbev or sabmiller or constellation or some faceless group of investors buy another independent bit of the industry and it s happening at production distribution and retail levels and pass it into consortium ownership i stop and have a long look at it i might even solicit opinion online if i don t understand it but the important thing is at least to stop and question it posted by zak avery at 22 57 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels craft beer fubu fucking sellouts monday 17 april 2017 ilkleybrewery tasting at beerritzleeds notorious f i g and lotus ipa our latest saturday tasting was a few weeks ago we re a bit slow at getting this video up owing to various bits of lurgy and absence but we were very pleased to welcome ilkley brewery to the shop for the afternoon they brought two beers notorious f i g which is a 7 5 fig dubbel designed to pair with cheese and the brilliant lotus ipa which is a burst of pithy grapefruit freshness delivered in a very clean crisp golden ipa notorious f i g is certainly the more complex beer realistically needing a slab of cheese to play against but the lotus ipa was probably the star of the show providing a big explosion of grapefruity hop character against a simple pale malt background there s something incredibly satisfying about the burst of pithy citrus being delivered in a cheeky little cold can too i sneaked a sip at the start of the video and the clean zesty coolness took me by surprise if you can t get to the beerritz shop in leeds you can buy their beers here our next tasting is for the launch of roosters brewing co s new session ipa 24 7 it s a brilliantly fruity and pleasingly bitter 4 7 of golden loveliness which should bring a lot of happiness to a lot of people over the summer we ll also have the world premier of highway 51 in cans a 3 7 riot of mosaic centennial and rakau hops come along to beerritz 14 weetwood lane headingley ls16 5lx on saturday 29th april 1 4pm for free beer badges blather banter and other things beginning with b posted by zak avery at 10 15 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ilkley brewery wednesday 1 march 2017 thornbridge brewery at beerritzleeds the heart desires bear state so the last saturday of the month is now a fixture for tastings at beer ritz in leeds february saw thornbridge brewery in attendance bringing along some of their elegant but still hoptastic west coast style ipa bear state as well as a new release from their barrel room series the heart desires although in the video i skate over bear state a bit it shouldn t really be dismissed so easily it s a classic thornbridge take on a style precise without being showy refined without being boring reliable without the contempt of familiarity but of course my inner geek wanted to talk about the next installment of the barrel room series the series that spawned the unprecedented gold and silver medal duo for thornbridge at the world beer cup with two new beers at the first time of entering really that s quite an achievement the heart desires is a complex beer on the nose you get the white wine barrel influence immediately bit of oak bit of fruit and it smells zingy your brain gets excited and starts your mouth watering for what is about to happen in the mouth it s medium bodied with a clean zip of acidity and fruitiness unsurprising as the beer is aged on gooseberries for 18 months green apples lemons just crunchy zippy dry fruitiness this is a barrel aged wild beer subject to the influence of organisms in the wood of the barrel pediococcus and lactobacillus being among them in the video the only reason i mention them because george didn t want to it s something of a paradox that a beer that is exposed to all manner of unruly microbial influence should taste so clean but it does it s something that it has in common with a lot of american wild ales notably the wild beers produced at russian river brewing in california which are thornbridge brewmaster rob lovatt s inspiration for this series the russian river wild beers are ace as are the thornbridge ones next up ilkley brewery will be debuting a new beer and puring samples of their new range come down to beer ritz on saturday 25th march no need to book it s free just turn up between 1pm and 4pm you can follow beerritzleeds on twitter for more updates and like them on facebook and in real life too you can follow beerritzbymail on twitter and give them the zuckerberg thumbs up here or just ignore all the social media hoopla and head over and start shopping posted by zak avery at 10 55 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels thornbridge monday 30 january 2017 tasting beerritzleeds with wylambrewery and yeastieboysuk here s a short video taken at the leeds launch of the brilliant wylam vs yeastie boys wxy 2 an extra pale ipa made with lots and lots of antipodean hops this was beer ritz s first tasting of 2017 and we hope to be making a thing of these dave and ben from wylam brewery came down were utterly lovely poured beer and said lovely things about the shop lots of people came lots of beer was poured and drunk lots of laughs had you ll have to step lively if you want to catch any of the beer though there is a small amount left at beer ritz in leeds but it s already sold out online although other very lovely wylam beers are available our next tasting will be thornbridge brewery on saturday 25th february where there will be a visitor from thornbridge pouring their west coast ipa bear state as well as a couple of their world conquering sour beers and no that s not hyperbole gold and silver at the 2016 world beer cup in the wood and barrel aged sour beer category does actually demonstrate mastery of a style you can follow beerritzleeds on twitter for more updates and like them on facebook and in real life too you can follow beerritzbymail on twitter and give them the zuckerberg thumbs up here or just ignore all the social media hoopla and head over and start shopping posted by zak avery at 21 10 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels beerritz wylam brewery yeastie boys older posts home subscribe to posts atom zak avery i m a freelance writer and specialist beer retailer i was the british guild of beer writers writer of the year 2008 my first book 500 beers is now available to buy on amazon or in bookshops near you hopefully i jointly own the specialist beer shop beer ritz in headingley leeds west yorkshire as well as the wholesaler beer paradise and the mail order service beer ritz co uk i also run 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