A few months ago, my local tesco started stocking beers from Little Valley . It was during their last attempts at expanding their craft beer selection and was during the 5 for €10 phase they went through which was great while it lasted. Withens Pale Ale is an unassuming beer. It's a brilliant thirst quencher and is almost like a bitter pseudo lager. There's lots of cereal, hay as well as a nice...

Alaska is not somewhere I am ever likely to visit so it's nice that I can get beer from Alaskan microbreweries. There's a surprising number of breweries in Alaska, a massive state with only about half the population of Dublin. Anchorage for instance has about 7 breweries alone which is more than Dublin. It begs the question as to why a city with a metropolitan population akin to Cork (city) can...

Drinking order: from right to left I have met Hardknott Dave a number of times over the last few years. Beginning when he ran his old brewpub and moving on to when he sold that and moved his microbrewery to a new premises. Some of the things I like about Dave is that he is uncompromising when it comes to quality and also he loves to experiment with his beers. Think Brewdog but without the...