Hello, and welcome back to the Eternal Hoptimists, Yes it’s another session IPA, they’re ubiquitous and ever popular. Whilst the trend is for ever stronger and complex beers there will always be a ready market for easy drinking sub 5% ales, I just wish they would drop the ‘India’ from the name. Well here goes.Continue reading “Bosun’s Brewing Co – King Neptune Session IPA (4.3% ABV)”
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North Brewing Co – Open Space (4.5% ABV)
Let’s face it, there are not many more consistent breweries with beers easily obtainable as North Brewing Co and it is always a pleasing sight to be able to walk into a supermarket and have a choice of a decent selection of their beers. In this review we are taking a look at Open SpaceContinue reading “North Brewing Co – Open Space (4.5% ABV)”
T|E|H Christmas Advent 2022 #26- Amundsen Choczilla (7% ABV)
Welcome back to the Eternal Hoptimist’s, Amundsen Brewery is world renowned for their desert themed beers, so as I opened my latest box of beers for review this one jumped out at me straight away. Then, after reading the can my excitement grew seeing that this is a coffee, marshmallow, lava cake pastry stout. ThisContinue reading “T|E|H Christmas Advent 2022 #26- Amundsen Choczilla (7% ABV)”
T|E|H Christmas Advent 2022 #24- Brew York – State of Mind Edition/2022. BA Nightmare of Brew York (9.8% ABV)
Welcome back to the Eternal Hoptimist’s, Beer lovers everywhere must be aware of the annual barrel aged State of Mind beers released by Brew York, if not, why not? Here at the Eternal Hoptimists we have managed to lay our hands on the latest version of Nightmare of Brew York which is a Heaven HillContinue reading “T|E|H Christmas Advent 2022 #24- Brew York – State of Mind Edition/2022. BA Nightmare of Brew York (9.8% ABV)”
T|E|H Christmas Advent 2022 #23- Brew York- Goose Willis (5.3% ABV)
Welcome back to the Eternal Hoptimist’s, As we are all aware Bruce Willis starts in the greatest Christmas movie ever made….Right? So, it seems only appropriate that in the run up to Christmas we take a look at another Brew York beer with a play on a celebrity name in the form of their gooseberryContinue reading “T|E|H Christmas Advent 2022 #23- Brew York- Goose Willis (5.3% ABV)”
T|E|H Christmas Advent 2022 #2 – Turning Point – Nova, Pilsner (4.6% ABV)
Welcome back to the Eternal Hoptimist’s, We’re back with the T|E|H Advent calendar for 2022 and continuing our look at Turning points 12 beers of Christmas. As we have quite a lot to get through this month, we have recruited John’s friend Jean to help us out with this one. Jean works within the NHS,Continue reading “T|E|H Christmas Advent 2022 #2 – Turning Point – Nova, Pilsner (4.6% ABV)”
Vault City – Passionfruit, Coconut and Banana Sour (9.0% ABV)
Hi there fellow beer lovers, Welcome back to the Eternal Hoptimists. We are three posts into John’s reign as the sour king, it has been a tumultuous era, where he has ruled over the ratings of sours with a large dimple glass. Today he is looking at another tipple from Vault City, will it getContinue reading “Vault City – Passionfruit, Coconut and Banana Sour (9.0% ABV)”
Northern Monk X Floc Brewing , Patron Project with Thought Bubble, Alex Norris (7.0% ABV)
Welcome back to the Eternal Hoptimists! Over the weekend, Sam and a group of his friends went to the Thought Bubble Comic Convention in Leeds/Harrogate. Where they stumbled upon this beauty, its a Limited Patrons Project DDH IPA which was brewed in conjunction to the festival. This Particular Patron is sort of a Two-fer asContinue reading “Northern Monk X Floc Brewing , Patron Project with Thought Bubble, Alex Norris (7.0% ABV)”
TEH – Halloween Two Week Special – From Plague to Phantom’s
Hello my fellow beer lovers. MUWAHAHAHAHA!….Welcome back to the eternal hoptimist’s. Its nearly the spookiest time of the year… So in celebration of that we are looking at all things Ghastly & Ghoulish! From the 17th-21st we are taking a closer looks at Eyam Brewery, based the Peak District in a small village called ‘Eyam’. Continue reading “TEH – Halloween Two Week Special – From Plague to Phantom’s”
Kirkstall x Noonchi Cake – Cherry Chip Imperial Chocolate Cherry Cake Porter (9.0% ABV)
This is a collaboration beer inspired by cult Leeds bakehouse Noonchi Cake’s cherry-chocolate flecked signature flavour, ‘Cherry Chip.’ For me porters can be a little bit dull with muddy flavours, so it will be interesting to see how this one comes out. Being an Imperial Porter, it is brewed to a stronger ABV but willContinue reading “Kirkstall x Noonchi Cake – Cherry Chip Imperial Chocolate Cherry Cake Porter (9.0% ABV)“
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