Boilermaker???

This is an odd one for me, I have seen this term used for beer and a bourbon chaser, admittedly mainly in Byrons I give you... but I recently heard it used in a pub for a pint of bitter and a whisky ( a rather nice Tomasin which I doubt went well with the overly hopped IPA however each to their own).


Does anyone know what the term 'Boilermaker' refers to? The whisky is served in a separate glass alongside just in case people are not sure what I mean.


That said I quite enjoy whisky alongside a beer on the odd occasion, such as a stout with a peaty whisky. Sweeter whiskies go well with bitters but so far I haven't had a whisky that I would think would go well with IPAs.

New Year 2015 and Hopefully Getting Back To Posting...

New Year Folks!


Well, last year was interesting


This year is hopefully going to be a combination of running (and training hard for the VLM in 2016), beer drinking (huzzah!), new experiences, new books to read, and new recipes to cook.


Admittedly I hadn't been posting much recently... ok for over half a year, but I'm hoping to change that, goodness knows I have been drinking enough interesting new beer and visiting some great places to drink said beer. Unsurprisingly I won't be doing dry January, I have issues with such a daft idea which other bloggers have written about and I have never really indulged in drinking to oblivion that the proposer's of the idea seem to think folks do.


Anyway, aims for this year;

• Blog more (this will mean posts of not just beer but places, food, and random)
• Run more (yep, you will be getting race reports as well)

That's all, simple... lets see how it goes.