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Traveling so much and the beers that we keep at Beermerchants.com – I could quite easily have a finger pointed at me for no love to our local, or national brews.
Over the last couple of years things have really come along here at Beermerchants.com, I could never have believed that we’d be selling the rare American Craft beer, the number of Gueuze and just the number of great quality British brews that we’ve started bringing together. Over the weekend that I wandered north to hang out with Simon (the Reluctant Scooper) and hunt for Burton IPA, we chewed the fat when it comes to various English Breweries that we love, and I use that word with it’s full meaning.
Simon’s insight into the midland/North scene is something incredible to hear, the number of breweries that are really trying to brew great, experiential brews, with impressive quality. Spending time with Kelly and Stephano from Thornbridge and Mark Tranter of DarkStar, Justin of Moor Brewing, chatting with Dominic from Marble, Jeff from Lovibonds, Alan at Old Chimneys, Eddie from Gadds, they are as passionate at many of the breweries that I have travelled around afar, they are brewing exciting beers, they are having fun! and they are growing… Even the new Steel City Brewing, Pete at the Brew Co for opening up to have this guys is such an incredible opportunity (even that their new beers, 3 of them, are available at Oxford Beer Fest)
I have taken many beers from these breweries to beer events in foreign lands and people have gone nuts for them. Ok, I am sure to many readers of this I am shouting at the converted, but, seriously it’s a great time for beer, both home and abroad. I want to say congratulations, to all.
Showcasing the best of our British ales, Laurence one of the cylinders of the beermerchants.com engine, who’s really getting into these beers… has put together a case for you all, and it’s an amazing deal – here - those beers you receive two of, you’ve got one of them FREE! yes, FREE! Plus you get one of the very very cool Gadds of Ramsgate glasses.
Hops on Radio 4 too! See, beer is getting noise! and the Telegraph this week!
Inspired by the Family Guy episode “Road to Europe” rather than a 1970’s style dream of showing “Johnny Foreigner” how to play the beautiful game, we’ve opened up to ship to Europe.
So, beermerchants.com is shipping european wide. Such is the growth in demand for quality beer our little corner of the websiphere has certainly been getting some love.. Our email inboxes certainly get more and more interest from further and further afield. So, thanks to the Family Guy we’re shipping to Europe. We’ve started with a few countries, taken from where we have had the most interest from, but if you can’t see your destination, please let us know. We’ve sent a few parcels already, one to Greece and a few to nearer European nations, before the roll out. Why? So we had peice of mind that you were going to get your beer in the same state that every UK based customer has come to expect over the last two years… and, we’re pleased to say that it passed the test. So, dear beerlover siting in France, Belgium, Germany, and Norway and Spain, and Italy… you can enjoy the beers that many here have too!
To mark this occasion, we’re offering all you the chance to win a case of beer, shipped anywhere in Europe or the UK, if you can guess the beer and destination of the first European Delivery. (Only open to people 18 and above!) Use the comments box for entries.
There are two gentlemen… hell, I bet they have never been called that before…
Take two hop loving beer aficionado’s of absolute life long dedication – something like more than 40,000 beers sampled between them the world over, Dave Unpronounceable, and Gazza Prescott have finally put their money where their mouths are and dived into the art of brewing.
Dave a one time brewer, has from memory had an ambition to get back to brewing and Gazza a long time friend and travelling companion on one of their many beer “scooping” trips has jumped in with him to deliver what they say will be some of the hoppiest beers out! I have known these two for a good while, there will some fireworks here… They will be brewing at and under the watchful eye of one of the quietly up and coming breweries in the area, with Pete at the Brew Co. If you call yourself a hop head, a beer geek or the like… I am sure you’lk know of these two and I am sure you’ll be hearing loads about their beers!
Congratulations, great effort, brilliant idea and can’t wait to try them!
You can read more here.
Sat in the kitchen, drinking a beer. Not an uncommon occurrence for most of us, but if I were to say that the beer that has prompted this little sesh at the keyboard was homebrew, I am sure you’d be surprised.
Homebrew, yes it’s the domain of beerdy weirdies in their garages, or folk in their kitchens, boiling up cans of goo, adding sugar and more sugar “coz it turns to alcohol“, adding stuff and hoping to get hammered in a couple of weeks? Then the cold, well, warm realisation that the beer that they are sampling, don’t taste like it orta.
Of course that’s homebrew, just like that stuff that your dad, uncle, brother made in the garage that made your mother irrate at the mess that they made. Eventually leading to a box full of Boots the Chemist odds and sods being sectioned to the shed to gather moulds, spores and fungus’s…
Yes, that’s homebrew… just like the brown glass bottles that explode on a warm summers day. BOOM, crash….. oww!
Yes, that’s homebrew…
Or is it? read more…

When I scan through the many pictures on my phone, I was a little shocked as to just how many there were of beer stuff.
My EOS20d had a fall earlier in the year, so I can assume that the phone somewhat tried to fill it’s shoes. You can have a little insight into the stuff that I see, the antics that I get up to (with Angelo in tow), and the great beers that my girlfriend says has spoiled me… hell, she works for a brewery, can I blame her. Certainly, it’s not the beers that I get in for you at Beermerchants.com – if you follow us on twitter, I am sure that you’ve seen a few of these… read more…
Apparently if I were ever to be taken seriously as a writer, it would be a nightmare rather than a dream being brutally honest, mind worse would be seen as some bloke tapping away at a keyboard for the sake of traffic for an online beer store (to which it has little effect in reality), I best declare interest in the subject…
If you’ve been reading this blog for some time, I occasionally more so, prefer to try to write, that is, something more than “whoopieeeee new beer here“. The recent Tripin’ to Burton and Lupilin Love blether were fun to write, sort of. I don’t find writing as easy as the more gifted out there seem to make it look. When I have the chance to spend time in the company of Mark Dredge of the excellent Pencil and Spoon Blog, Mark Edwards or Maeib and one of my favourite people – Simon of the Reluctant Scooper blog – I am always in awe of their talent to bring energy into the subject, argue, present or just plain inspire those that read their work – and I am not shy in reminding them. If you expect something akin to literacy from me, um, sorry. I give up! This is the reason that I do prefer the art of Photography as irritating as I assume it must be to my friends now.
Recently, I really enjoyed the read Hops and Glory by Pete Brown, so much so it inspired some questions and caused a little journey in search, admittedly hoping to be wrong to a question that I already knew the answer to, as much Simon did. You see travelling so much and it might sound a shade clichéd but the journey is as important, perhaps more so than the destination. Beer is important to me, but more over it’s the meeting with fellow beer lovers, the other beer travellers and just enjoying the ride into another perspective on this absolutely stunning beverage. Really, beer is more about the people, the interaction, the banter, the camaraderie and all that goes on… great beer can sometimes get in the way. Yes, there it is, I said it… just get out there and enjoy beer. I love the big esoteric beers, debating the origins of IPA’s and dreaming about monster Danish bourbon barrel aged coffee imperial stouts made with civet cat poo coffee… but, as much the sitting in some cafe in the arse end of nowhere drinking the local lubricant. Be that gueuze, lambic recently or cans of “best drunk ice cold” just hanging with mates…
So, what’s that got to do with Brussels? read more…




Barrel ageing, barrel aged and barrels seem to be one of the most common words being kicked around by the brain cell in my head. It’s been a week of barrels… I can hear those words, kerthonk, kerthonk, repetitively bouncing like the ball being pitched from McQueens hand in the Great Escape… 









