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...
Cardiff Brew wins World’s Best Dark Mild Ale
My local brewery and my go to pint (2nd beer I ever drank 20 years ago, 1st was Buckley SBB) and I still have a pint of at least once a week. Brains Dark, has been named the ‘World’s Best Dark Mild Ale’ and ‘Europe’s Best Dark Mild Ale’ at the World Beer Awards 2011....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. 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 –...
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...
Want a decent pint and a very good steak in Cardiff?
Myself and the Mrs went to the Maltsters in Llandaff last week. It’s one of the Cardiff brewery Brains, modern pubs which they have changed a lot over the last year from the no nonsense pub I remember from my youth (ok 20s) to a open plan pub that serves good food, and for the...
Brains you are surprising us with your marketing for National Cask Ale Week
Brains are upping their marketing this year with this great promotional tool to get people to taste their cask ales, what you mean there are people in Kardiff not tasted a Brains Dark, shame on you. I can’t see this going down well in all their houses (Vulcan, Cottage & City Arms) but in the...
Brains Black Welsh Stout – Guinness beware in the Welsh valleys
Today St David’s Day Brains the Cardiff based brewery launched a new beer at their wonderful Crawshay Arms pub, which is in the grounds of the Brewery, the best pub in Cardiff has it does not have a till! What is different about it from the other Brains keg ales, well It’s a Stout, and...
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...
