HB&B Blog — Pastore Brewing & Blending
Our 2022 Big Beery Advent beers revealed
Baron Brewing Boxcar Brew Co Burning Sky DEYA Donzoko Drop Project Duration Brewing Elusive Brewing Finback Full Circle HBBAdvent Kees Newbarns Pastore Brewing & Blending Polly's Brew Co Pressure Drop Simple Things Fermentations St Mars of the Desert Sureshot The Beak Brewery Track Brewing Co Utopian Verdant
Beer #24 - Simple Things Fermentations Belgian Christmas And so to our Christmas Eve beer, the cherry on the top of our HB&B advent. Simple Things Fermentations is a small Glasgow brewery doing great things. Here in South London, STF may not have the instant name recognition of, say, a Verdant or a DEYA, but the quality of the beers speak for themselves - every one's a winner. When founder Phil kindly sent us a sample of this Belgian-style Christmas ale, we knew we'd found our Christmas Eve beverage. Lightly hopped, this is packed with all those classic Belgian flavours we love...
Fundamentals #131 — Pastore Blood Peach Waterbeach Weisse
Cambridge Fundamentals Matthew Curtis Pastore Brewing & Blending Sour
I confess, I don’t drink a lot of fruit sour beers. I do, however, enjoy the term “fruit sour” if you’ll allow me to explain. It’s been very enjoyable observing the return of some classic, near extinct central European styles over the past 10 years or so. If it wasn’t for experimentally-minded, plucky brewers digging through the history books, styles such as gose and Berliner weisse might have been consigned to history, and not the colourful cans that now adorn our bottle shop shelves. However, as brewers have increasingly sought to experiment with these styles by, for example, loading them with fruit, they have...
The Big 2021 #HBBAdvent Mega Thread!
Alpha Delta Belgian IPA Boxcar Brew Co Brick Brewery Burnt Mill DEYA Donzoko Double IPA Drop Project Duration Brewing Elusive Brewing Floc Brewing gipsy hill HBBAdvent Imperial Stout IPA Kees Lager Moersleutel Newbarns Pale ale Pastore Brewing & Blending Polly's Brew Co Pressure Drop Rivington Brew Co Sour St Mars of the Desert Stout The Beak Brewery Track Brewing Co Verdant Villages
#HBBAdvent Beer 24: Newbarns Barrel Aged Plain Dark Beer Strong Export Stout IT'S CHRISTMAS! HAVE A BLOODY GOOD ONE, Y'ALL, WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING, HOWEVER YOU CAN. WE LOVE YOU XXX #HBBAdvent Beer 23: St Mars Of The Desert Koel It Jingly Bells IPA Jingly bells, jingly bells Koelship IPA! O what fun it is to drink On a dark December day The Deptford shop is feeling festive today, Toby and Taylor’s impromptu Christmas playlist has been flinging between the sublime (The Waitresses, Jona Lewie) and the melancholy (Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes) to the absurd (William Shatner). SMOD’s...
Fundamentals #81 — Pastore Brewing & Blending Tropicale Acido
Cambridge Fundamentals Matthew Curtis Pastore Brewing & Blending Sour
October is a month that encompasses both change and the need for greater balance and stability. The drawing in of the nights, colder, wetter days, and leaves fading to ochre then red, signifies the turning of the seasons; a welcoming in of beers enjoyed by roaring log fires instead of in beer gardens or sunlit parks. And it’s time to pull those flannel shirts you’ve been dreaming about wearing for the last couple of months to the front of the wardrobe again. Glory be. As the seasons change, so do our needs and our behaviours. The time for heirloom tomato...