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Happy days for Cardiff Real Ale Fans -Goat Major beer festival Feb 2011

Great news on twitter from @TheGoatMajorPub, they are having a beer festival next week 21st Feb 2011 until 1st of march I had the Adnams Oyster Stout in the City Arms the other day and it was great. I hope to get a few pints at festival on Thursday but will try a few halfs […]

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Blog Food

The Best British Pie goes to Wye Valley Pie from the Goat Major

I know I seem to be posting about the Goat Major a lot recently in fact more than actually going there for a pint! anyway the Trumpet of Truth (South Wales Echo) reports that head chef Adam has won a pietastic award. THE best pie in the country is to be found at a Cardiff […]

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Beer Blog

Goat major Beer festival – Cardiff – Red Hop Lover, DangleBeer & Bread of Heaven

The wonderful Oasis in Cardiff that is the Goat Major is having a mini beer festival this week, you would not know it as nothing on the Brains website I had a tip off from ArfurD Beers on today include Brewseters Red Hop Lover, DangleBeery & Brains own Bread of Heaven. Later in the Week […]

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Beer

First day at GWBCF 2012 it’s not about Otley odessa at all – shut up what a beer but not for normal beer drinkers

Ok it was the battle of the ABV I thought it was. But Otley brewery have brought their milkshake to the yard as Kelis once said no not about milk stout – their silly Odessa – which has waited in quiet in the  Penderyn Whisky casks for the last 18months has stormed the Great Welsh beer and cider festival- Iam not saving […]

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Beer

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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Misc

So Cardiff is to a get monorail – again – “That’s right! Monorail!”

People who know me – know I am a grumpy sheddie most of the time – and even mrsuw has her moments – but I normally don’t grump much in my blog posts (beer & sheds are my norm) but when one idea for Cardiff keeps coming back again and each time nothing happens. Plans […]

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Beer

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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Beer

New Years Eve 2010 in Cardiff – Good pubs shut shock

I spent the late evening on Friday in Cardiff with the Mrs, her brother and his mrs. We watched the early fireworks from a great vantage point and went out for a few pints of ale and some food around 9.30pm, but there was not much choice. To my horror all my normal watering holes […]

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Beer

Is the best Real Ale pub in Cardiff now the City Arms?

The City Arms reopened in Cardiff this weekend in time for the first Autumn international as a proper Real Ale pub! The City Arms was built in the 1880’s – the same decade Brains was founded – but was known then as the Cattle Market. It was later renamed Dovers Arms, but became the City […]

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Beer

Brewdog Edge

Surprisingly I have not had this brewdog before. [flickr]photo:4986483743[/flickr] I was drinking it in my favourite Cardiff Pub the Goat Major, where I normally go for the lovely Brains Dark if they don’t have a guest on. Brewdog Edge is a “dark” like beer – being a mild with a low ABR 3.2% but with […]