Shepherd Neame is good and very professional, but if you like smaller breweries Hook Norton in Oxfordshire is excellent - very friendly and generous with the beer.
Bushmills in Northern Ireland is good. (As are Jim Beam and Jack Daniels in the US but that's a long way to go!) Interestingly most (all?) Scottish/Irish distilleries get their barrels secondhand from Jack Daniels.
Interestingly most (all?) Scottish/Irish distilleries get their barrels secondhand from Jack Daniels.
I think it depends on what they are aiming for in taste. A lot of distileries use second hand barrels, all oak and sherry, (I think) being the most popular.
Innes and Gunns use exrum barrels for one of their wonderful brews.
Not a tour, strictly speaking, but just for info: since Young's left The Ram Brewery and the great minds of Wandsworth Council can't decide what to allow on the site, a chap has leased an area of it and started up a small brewing concern. He's not allowed to sell it but you obtain tickets for a tour of his brewery which include the cost of beer which may be sampled by the pint. I'm not allowed beer nowadays but remember the Young's tour was good and the Company AGMs which I believe I attended but can't remember a thing about!! Most recent tour: the Talisker distillery on Skye, and sampling 'the water of life'. Recommended.
The Sweetwater 420 Brewery here in Atlanta is a must visit if you are passing through.
$8 to get in......take the tour, get a Sweetwater pint glass which is yours to keep, 6 pints of your favourite brew, live bands on a Friday night......awesomeness!
The Sweetwater 420 Brewery here in Atlanta is a must visit if you are passing through.
$8 to get in......take the tour, get a Sweetwater pint glass which is yours to keep, 6 pints of your favourite brew, live bands on a Friday night......awesomeness!
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I think it depends on what they are aiming for in taste. A lot of distileries use second hand barrels, all oak and sherry, (I think) being the most popular.
Innes and Gunns use exrum barrels for one of their wonderful brews.
Agree with this. Great view over the city from the bar on the top floor but more a museum than a working brewery tour.
Doesn't someone on CL work at the Chiswick Fullers?
Not a tour, strictly speaking, but just for info: since Young's left The Ram Brewery and the great minds of Wandsworth Council can't decide what to allow on the site, a chap has leased an area of it and started up a small brewing concern. He's not allowed to sell it but you obtain tickets for a tour of his brewery which include the cost of beer which may be sampled by the pint. I'm not allowed beer nowadays but remember the Young's tour was good and the Company AGMs which I believe I attended but can't remember a thing about!! Most recent tour: the Talisker distillery on Skye, and sampling 'the water of life'. Recommended.
$8 to get in......take the tour, get a Sweetwater pint glass which is yours to keep, 6 pints of your favourite brew, live bands on a Friday night......awesomeness!
Very true brilliant!
What bus do you get from Charlton ?
in cider.
*none of the above happened*