I’ve always been a glassware nut, I think it stems from my many visits to Belgium. Where you walk into a bar with a beer menu more akin to a karaoke song list with page after page of wonders. A beer is chosen and the barkeep still manages to find the correct, usually branded glass, […]
Tag: craft beer
I see a Rainbow Rising… #RainbowProject16
This weekend sees the latest instalment in what has become one of the most exciting beer events in the modern beer world, the International Rainbow Project. Last night Siren Craft Brew had the beer Twitterati glued to their screens during #CraftBeerHour as one by one they announced the beers that each collaborative brewery pairing had created, […]
Times, they are a changin’
We are currently enjoying a vibrant and ever expanding beer scene and it may seem to be going slightly against the grain to want to be “just” a great beer shop. So I wanted to write a few words here to give our perspective and the reasons why we are trying to be exactly that. […]
Stone Brewing Berlin
STONE BREWING SPECIAL Stone Brewing have long been a go-to staple for any serious craft beer drinker interested in what good American brewing can offer, with beers like Ruination, Cali-Belgique and the oh-so subtly named Arrogant Bastard snapped up if found. In recent years though, they seemed to lose their edge slightly in a market with so many […]
Fuller, Smith and Turner…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there has never been a better time to be a lover of good beer, certainly in my lifetime anyway. We are awash with new breweries from here and another great brew from there, so much so that it is often difficult to keep up. However, it […]
There’s “Norway” of telling you how good these Lervig beers are…
“Nor’way” of knowing how long they will last either….. 😉 Awful puns aside, take look at our current stock of beers from Norwegian brewmasters Lervig Aktiebryggeri. We hope you agree it’s a pretty epic selection including some very rare beasts, hitting the UK in VERY limited numbers. We have Lervig collaborations with some of the […]
Tears For Beers – July 8th #tearsforbeers
Welcome to another issue of “Tears For Beers”. First some news. Last Saturdays sour beer presentation with Chorlton Brewery was a great success, with head brewer/owner Mike talking us through some of the beers that influenced his own path into brewing and formed the basis of many of Chorlton’s beers. We still have a few […]
Hawkshead Brewery and Key Lime Tau-rsday
Hawkshead Brewery have well and truly entered the building here at Otter’s Tears and we have some absolute belters in stock for your beverage enjoyment. For many years these guys have quietly been producing good, solid, tasty beers, in fact I can take a punt that most of you reading this have had more than […]