Beer Compurgation

To say that we as a community and a culture are being spoilt for choice in present times continues to be a large understatement. With every new beer, brewery and destination bar comes a level-up in my indifference to them. Places that five years ago would have had me queueing up on opening night are now largely being ignored.  Falling into that list is the Summer Wine Brewery Tap in Honley. I wrote an Instagram post recently , whilst drinking an outstanding can of Cortes, about my old love for Summer Wine Brewery and the time when I would have easily placed them amongst my top three favourites in the country. I remember beginning a post about them in 2012 that I hoped to find amongst my notes but alas could not. I did however find the below grainy photograph that features my favourite ever SWB beer ( #bringbackCohort ) and the nostalgia branding that seems a lifetime ago now.  Having opened in 2016 I was rather excited about the prospect of this new bar,...

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There’s a strong possibility that they’ll be a review of the year in January when all these festivities are out of the way, so let’s just delve into a rather discursive Golden Pints for 2017. Also I’m aware that there’s a North-West bias to a fair few of these answers, but this is more indicative of where 95% of my drinking occurs rather than some forced local loyalty. Best UK Cask Beer: Fyne Ales – Jarl The pub goes quiet. The needle screeches across the vinyl as the music stops. All eyes are fixed on this unexpected decision. It’s true that my love for a certain Pale Ale on cask made this decision assumedly predictable. Yet the once undulating Jarl has been on staggeringly good form this past 12 months. It wins because, whilst my experiences of Track Brew Co’s Sonoma have been confined to pubs within a 10 mile radius of the brewery, I’ve had Jarl across the UK in 2017 so gained a larger scope for it. The form this year has led to me having n...