Big Tasty

If there's one thing I know you've had fantasies about it's fresh, cool, tasty beer on a warm Summer's day - I'm right aren't I? There you are, sitting on a quay-side slurping from a condensation covered glass, waves gently lapping at your feet, sun high, bright and warm. Maybe there's some decent street merchants vending delicious spicy chick peas or vegetable somosas. There's probably some musicians jamming away in ear shot. And the sound of kids' wild laughter from a nearby funfair. A stilt walker lopes by and you get up and go to chose another tasty, cool pint from a list of a dozen or more.

Wake up. It's happening. Next weekend in Ramsgate.

July 4th - Ram Francisco - not as muddy as Glastonbury.

A taster.....

Our little tasting last weekend went very well, little Phil captured the mood as usual.

Barely wine

Now then, remember the barley wine tutorial? Well, after sitting on a bed of spicy English Bramling Cross hops for a couple of weeks I transferred the young ale onto a bed of the strangest variety of hops known to brewers, the recently developed NZ Nelson Sauvin. The resultant concoction, now bottled and on sale, is just about one of the craziest brews I've made to date.


And I'm very pleased to announce that the Beer Merchants are trading our ale on-line so get yer credit card out and spend, spend, spend for the good times just keep on rolling on.

Sizzling Summertime Special Stock

Welcome to Steve, our latest recruit. He's taken over responsibility for the foreign beer we stock in the Shop. As a result, the range has begun to expand, branching out a tad as we lay down store for the coming, gloriously sunny, Kent months.

It's particularly good to see La Chouffe on the shelves, both the blonde and the Dobbelen IPA Triple. This mad little brewery in deepest Belgium was a cult favourite in the bars across Den Haag a few years back and I've personally enjoyed one or two splendidly late nights in its company. It's a wonderfully spicy and unique style of beer.


The Trappist Brewers have long been represented here by Orval but now others have come to join us from Rochefort, Achel and Westmalle. These brewers consistently attain the loftiest heights on the quality ladder and their beers are nothing short of legendary.

In total contrast we've also shipped Kriek, Framboise and Fruli - fruit beers to delight anyone on a hot day.

There's more besides: Brugges Zot for instance. A beer I've not yet tried but have been assured of it's credentials.


Since we have so many newcomers (beer and staff) we thought we'd crack a few bottles open this Saturday (13th June) lunchtime so we can give 'em a proper tasting (the beer). And since the beers are many, and we, reletively few, there'll be plenty to go round so come up and join in, around 1pm. Steve promised to provide a perfunctuary lunch and a running comentary. Sounds more fun than weeding the allotment anyway. See you Saturday.

English Reserve

So I've blathered on a bit about barley wines and oak aging over the last couple of months and quite naturally you're getting fed up, wondering where the hell this beer is. Wonder no longer. It's in the Shop as I write, all labeled up and on sale.

Now don't be expecting a beer you can guzzle down in 5 minutes: dig this groovy one in small quantities, late at night, after you've finished operating heavy machinery. I had it with a rich beany stew and new potatoes last night and it were, well, spot on.

This beer has spent 30 days resting in a Rondo 2005 french oak cask from the mighty Chapel Down vineyard in deepest Kent, absorbing fine qualities from the red wine infused wood. If it's a regular beer flavour you're after you've arrived at the wrong place. However, if you adventure fearlessly in the flavour world, step right this way......

Beer Tasting

Gadds' Beer Shop

For All Your Real Beer Needs

Beer Tasting

Saturday 13 June 2009 at 1PM

As our special Gadds Beer Shop fans you are personally invited to come to our tasting Saturday 13 June at 1 pm held at the Ramsgate Brewery

Unit 1, Hornet Close

Pysons Rd Industrial Estate

Broadstairs Kent

CT10 2YD

This tasting will be featuring beers including Westmalle, Brugse Zot,

  De Molen,  Zennebrouwerij, Boon and Fruli

This tasting will be offered at no cost to you, however, due to limited  space available, this tasting is by invitation only and we ask that if you are interested in coming please reply to this email and let us know to expect you.

 

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Make over

Please extend a warm welcome to Matt who joined the firm a couple of weeks ago. He's flirted with us for years, waiting for the right moment to make his move and his timing is impeccable; the artwork used to front our beers has been getting increasingly random and scruffy and one of Matt's skills, as you'll gather from one of his websites, is design.

Over the next few weeks and months you'll notice the changes to pump-clips, bottle labels, website and letterhead. Crikey, even Morrison, our new van, will get a going over. You'll miss the old and it'll be a fairly painful process of change but in a few years you'll look back and realise that we all grow up eventually, even breweries.

The last 24 hours has been hell for me, relinquishing a creative area of my business. The worst is over and there'll be no more tears.