Alcohol Free Beer Explorers

 On Saturday 10th July I took a trip down to Wise bartenders wisefest  pop up bar.  Arriving at wisefest I was greeted by Tom the man behind Wise bartender and 5 Alcohol free beers on tap plus an alcohol free cider on tap.  As well as fridges full of other Alcohol free Beers/ciders Wines, Kombucha's and Alcohol free Spirits.  Never before had I seen so many Alchol free drinks being served in one place.     If your unsure what you like Tom and the other staff on on hand to point you in the right direction and very knowledgeable on all the drinks on offer. The event is very family friendly with a lot of room for you to let your kids run around and run off some energy while you enjoy the drinks.   Talking about the drinks here's  what they had on offer on the Saturday I visited.  These will change slightly each week.  There were great burgers being served too and I believe in future weeks will be loaded fries from Billy Chips. I had Ridgeside light & sound, Lucky saint lager &

  On the final day of the af beer club virtual festival we have another 4 Drinks.   We start the day with the great Hammerton crunch AF, followed by Birmingham brewing co sober brummie,  then a bit of a change and a soda from cloudwater soda and end the day with what looks like could be a very big hitter from MashGang the I am Become death the destroyer of the worlds.  Looks like going to be another great day so So lets get cracking with Beer 1. Hammerton Brewery - Crunch AF Host: Robin (Af Beer Club) Guest: Co founder of Hammerton Brewery Lee Hammerton. Watch the video Hammerton Brewery was founded in 2014 In the North London borough of Islington at the time their were lots of bars and pubs in the area but no real local brewery presence.   So Hammerton brewery was started to address this.  They started off with IPA's and later moved into different styles.  Interestingly they still use the same brew kit to this day. After trying a few different American Peanut butter milk stouts Le

  Today we have 5 beers to go through so will be splitting this into 2 posts the first 3 beers will be written up by myself here then the remaining 2 a post by Henry (@HoppyAF)  Beavertown - Lazer Crush Host: Robin (AF Beer Club) Guest: Ben the brand ambassador for Beavertown. Watch the session Ben explained that Beavertown first played with the idea of an alcohol free beer about 3 years ago and produced many different test recipes and had at least 20 different versions before they came to the final product.  Due to capacity issues they looked to brew elsewhere and with the track record of de proefbrouwerij in Belgium  it made sense for them to contract brew the beer there.  Mikkeler and coast beers are brewed here as well to name just a few.   Beavertown itself started out as a restaurant and the owner decided to start the brewery in 2012 so that he could do drinks pairing with food.  They also discovered a hidden talent working at the restaraunt a waiter who liked to do art projects

  Af beer club in association with wise Bartender have put together a 3 day Virtual Beer Festival.  Consisting of a box of 12 beers to drink along with live videos with the brewers behind the beers.   Day 1 - Friday 09/04/2021 MaltGarden - Free Sunset Catchup on the session here 1st up we have a beer and brewery that is new to me the Maltgarden Free Sunset.  0.5%   This is a fruit Beer from Polish brewers Maltgarden.  Described as Pina Colada meets IPA.  So I will be expecting lots of pineapple and coconut flavours coming through.  This session was hosted by the man behind af beer club Robin.  and His guest is the brewer Lukasz. Maltgarden currently use 2 different contract breweries with each brewing different styles of beer.  They are based in Kolobrzeg in Poland.  They Started off in March 2019 mainly brewing Imperial Stouts and porters and have since expanded their range to include a variety of Styles.  Last year they brewed they started brewing their 1st Non Alcoholic beer which