That’s a bugger, I still need a Renfrewshire rate.
Two Towns Down is probably your best bet:
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FAO Scottish Raters - someone go to Ayr and ask
@mr_h mr_h why he ticks so much stuff .5 it’s killing the scores on solid beers.
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Thanks, I’ve looked at the individual brewers websites previously but I’d always rather get a whole mix of brewers rather than just one - especially as I’d like to get Lanarkshire (my other missing Scottish region) at the same time. I occasionally check the Scottish Real Ale Shop to see if they can do me both Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire at the same time but no joy so far…
Yeah, wow that’s very strange to score so many beers at 0.5
Hit a few pubs in Derby yesterday with my Dad and Pauline and thought that I should mention that the Derby Brewery Co. Taphouse has apparently been closed for a while now. Sadly the brewery went into administration last October.
On the positive side, we’ve been visiting two of our best friends, former next door neighbours and fellow Merton Beer Festival organisers Nick and Anna Helfrich. We pitched in with the local community to help them with some last minute works before they opened a combined restaurant, relocated Isle of Harris brewery and shop on Good Friday. This is brilliantly located at Leverburgh next to the slipway where the ferries to North Uist and Berneray arrive and depart four times a day.
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This is doubtful. Derby Tap updated their entry on realalefinder only 3 days ago 1
I understand that Derby Tap and Greyhound are still trading but up for sale. Other Derby Brewing pubs have closed.
Ok fair point, then I stand corrected as I can see that there are some recent Google reviews, one from five days ago and one from a week ago plus others a month or so back. I was acting on the information that I’d heard from a Smithfield regular and also my dad a local who used it occasionally and walks past it en route to other venues, they clearly both understood it had closed. I would certainly double check if planning a visit as certainly looked closed and a bit sad and uncared for when we walked past it on Bank Holiday Monday.
Occured to me that Wild Weather are still listed as a Berkshire Brewery despite now being brewed in Wales. But it then occurred to me that I could not remember the last time I saw one of their beers. Looks like the move to Wales hasn’t helped… unless of course they’re going to become a brand when the existing company is unlisted:
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This lot have changed name and address by the looks
https://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/really-good-beer-society/46053/
They are now called Impact Brewing, even though they still commission beers.
These beers are the same, and the name of the beer is as per the second entry below with ‘of’ not ‘if’
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pomona-island-brewski-the-maven-if-funk-mutation/1159780/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pomona-island-brewski-the-maven-of-funk-mutation/1170012/
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I have noticed there is some inconsistency in the naming of beers for this Modest Beer. This isn’t helped by inconsistency in the way beers are named on their own website.
https://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/modest-beer/42965/beers
The beer labels have a style name at the top and a more wordy name at the bottom. Example below
Is there a standard way these should be added.
This inconsistency has led to a few duplicates.
What About The Snakes or St Patrick’s Day Double
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-lacada-bullhouse-get-er-brewed-what-about-the-snakes/1189046/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-beer-st-patrick-s-double-ipa-what-about-the-snakes/1183018/
Good enough to take home to yer ma / pilsner
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-beer-good-enough-to-take-home-to-yer-ma/925985/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-beer-pilsner/1070270/
Cloudy Yet Full of Sunshine or NE Pale Ale
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-beer-cloudy-yet-full-of-sunshine/891166/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-beer-ne-pale-ale/824432/
Stay Home, Stay Safe, Get Weird or DDH Pale Ale
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-beer-stay-home-stay-safe-get-weird/925742/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-beer-ddh-pale-ale/834681/
Dreaming of far of lands or IPA
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-beer-daydreaming-of-far-off-lands/891186/
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/modest-beer-ipa/824085/
I’m sure there are other duplicates.
It’s a fucken mess alright!!!
Leave it with me and I’ll perform an exorcism over the coming days.
Standard way should be BEER NAME only.
We don’t need ancillary info lumped in with that such as style … unless they had a generic beer name covering a number of styles.
That belongs in the text field below.
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The problem is these twats don’t even know what they are naming their beers. Here from their web store:
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Cellar Head calling it a day.
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Silver Brewhouse gone too:
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Hog’s Back have bought Mondo.
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Re: the Modest Beer naming silliness…
On the other site the Irish mods started putting the name in brackets after the style/flavour text because of how idiotic their unclear branding/naming is, sick of dealing with all the dupes. Personally I feel that’s the wrong way round, but in its defence the brewery does put the style first and foremost both on the website and on the can label itself, and it seems that’s how a lot of people are finding their beers.
I don’t know if we want to do the same here going forward? However, as Colin pointed out the standard is to have the name with no style text after unless its to disambiguate from similarly named beers, so it is a bit weird to do this. Anyway, using their flagship as an example we’d call it:
Cloudy Yet Full of Sunshine (Succulent & Hazy NE Pale Ale)
I don’t like it as it seems overly verbose and in that example very wordy. But it does mean folks can find it no matter how they search for it. Then again, we could also just alias them all. So… swings and roundabouts innit. Thoughts?
This brewery ceased trading in November last year
https://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/fownes-brewing-co/15882
However, it’s nt as simple as that. A replacement brewery “Fownd” has been set up, run by a former employee, using the same kit, but moved to Kidderminster. Some of the old Fownes beers are still brewed, some are brewed under a different name or same name but altered, and some are completely new
Fownd Brewing Co, Unit 3, Hill St, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY11 6TD
07845 430071
Fownes beers still brewed
(The) Elephant Riders
Frost Hammer
Labyrinth of Lost Souls
Mermaids Tale
Seven Crowns
Fownes beers brewed under different name / format.
Iron Tusk – was 4% now 3.6%
Keeper Of Secrets – was 5% IPA now 4.2% pale
Gold (was Gornal Gold)
King Korvak’s (was King Korvak’s Saga)
Completely new beers
666 Nations
Big Dipper Bitter
The Oort Cloud Mariner
A friend has told me that the beers now taste significantly different – but I wouldn’t know.
I’m not at all sure whether Fownd should be treated as a new brewery or as Fownes renamed and moved. If the latter then most Fownes beers need to be retired.
