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Brains want to scare you into drinking beer

Cardiff Brewery Brains is to launch a seasonal ale for Halloween, complete with motion-effect pump clip – which I’m sure people will nick and put on ebay in November 🙂 Open Casket, a rich, deep-red beer with bite, is available across Brains’ pub estate, as well as a number of key wholesalers and retail businesses, […]

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Cardiff brewery Brains pigs out with a Bacon Beer for GBBF

When I heard that Cardiff brewery Brains are making a Bacon flavoured beer I Was interested and now they have given some more info then more so Shame Iam not going to GBBF this year -now I wonder if they used smoked bacon but I do hope they have it in a few of their […]

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Brains Boilermaker named Brains’ ultimate IPA

Last week Boilermaker which was brewed as part of the Brains Craft Brewery IPA range, won the top award in their “Brains Craft Brewery IPA” awards – all I have to say about the beer is that the 6.5% IPA is very deceptive and great to drink – oh and my limit was 2.5 pints […]

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Good news for craft beer fans in Cardiff – Brains to open new craft brewery

Hopefully they will open it up to beer drinkers community to help choose or even brew new beer – Iam thinking hoppy beers to give certain scottish beers or Amercian beers a run for their money. From SA Brain Welsh brewer SA Brain and Co Ltd today announced that it is to extend production facilities […]

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Brains Original Stout

Brains have a new bottled beer Brains Original Stout (4.1%) that they have brewed just for Tesco Iam a bit fan of bottle stout and looking forward to tasting it – I saw it in my local Tesco already today – but bought a couple of bottles of their IPA (as it was BOGOF) Brains […]

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Cardiff brewery Brains rebrands it’s cask ale clips

Cardiff brewery S A Brain are rebranding their real ale clips – I’m a bit late on this as Arfur mentioned it last week, but of course he just drinks and writes all the time from Brains pubs;) I seem to blog about a lot about this brewery, but I suppose they are my local […]

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St David’s Day – A tour of the Brains Brewery & drinking in Cardiff pubs what could go wrong – nothing

When you get off a train at Cardiff central on a Monday morning after a rugby international you are greeted first with the sound of the dive bombing seagulls from the River Taff, then the more welcoming smell of beer being brewed from the Cardiff brewery that is S A Brains – it’s a smell […]

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St David’s Day doodle from google – have a pint of Brains Dark I say

google.co.uk and their big brother google.com is celebrating the patron Saint of Wales with a doodle of a Welsh costume and a Daffodil but was I the only one to notice that it looked like she had a Pint of Wales National Drink (IMHO) Brains Dark on her head? FYI the Goat Major Pub is […]

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Brains IPA too little for too much

I had a pint of the Brains IPA cask earlier in the week at the always a pleasure to go in pub, Goat Major. [flickr]photo:4931303283[/flickr] A light, copper colour ale with a fresh, hoppy taste and a clean, bitter finish. Brewed with two varieties of hops, combined with pale and crystal malts. I liked it […]

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Cardiff Brains Brewery to put IPA in bottles

On that Twitter ,Brand Manager for S.A Brain & Co Ltd, Ian Beattie tweeted about the labels for the new Brains IPA in bottles. Brains do an IPA smooth which is not the first on my list to drink when I pop into one of their pubs, back in the day I used to drink […]