This weeks review is that of one of the best beers I’ve ever  had in my life. From Belgium, Chimay Grande Reserve is part of a group of three beers the Chimay company offers. The Grande Reserve is their dark ale and it’s a damn good one. The beer comes in two sizes (that I [...]

Today’s review comes from England via the Samuel Smith Old Brewery. Started in 1748 inn Tadcaster the struggling brewery as taken over in 1852 by John Smith and was named John Smith’s Brewery. Brother William smith joined later on. When William died in 1886 his son inherited the brewery and reopened it as Samuel Smith’s Old Brewery.