Pub News: Landlord of the City Arms Cardiff is now looking after the Park in Barry
Cardiff Camra Pub of the year City Arms Landord Chris Partridge has headed to the wilds of Barry to look after the Park (http://www.sabrain.com/park) , which Brains is hoping to turn into a Real Ale mecca in the home of Gavin & Stacy. I have only been to the park twice – and only once...
Will you be drinking the strong ABV beers at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival
As tomorrow is the start to one of the highlights on the Welsh brewing and drinking calender Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival- I thought I would look at the ales that always seem to end my afternoon on the Friday at the festival – the ones over 6% ABV – but after my recent trip to...
Cardiff Pub the Vulcan to move to National History Museum St Fagans
from Brains- shame it’s going to be few years – maybe they will fix the outside loos by then Wonder if they will serve old Brains recipes ales in there (hint Strong Ale, 6.5%) – hope they keep it going as a pub and not a shell just as an exhibition. Welsh Bloggers Outside...
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...
