Fire & Beer, what’s not to like! 🔥 🍻

I thought I’d give this a try at £21. Isle Of Skye 8 Year Old #BlendedWhisky (Ian Macleod) 40% ABV Nosing: caramel/toffee, oat biscuit, char smoke, salt air with a faintness of kelp rich seawater Palate: smooth, Yorkshire Parkin, smoky toffee, salt and coffee palate dryness

#NowPlaying Gans - Good for the Soul (2025) Looking fwd to the MCR gig next week at Deaf Institute open.spotify.com/album/1RWoRM...

Where have you been tonight? - Shed Seven Released 31 years ago today! A location that features on my insta avatar! 😉😎🎸

#NowPlaying Cherry Ghost - Beneath the Burning Shoreline (2010)

Cheers! 🌞🍻

I’m intrigued. How many of you (my followers) own a guitar?

I’ve a lot of time for #WiperAndTrue this #IPA started off a bit dry…but it had followed a fruity #DIPA. I really enjoyed this. #CraftAle #CraftBeer 🍻

#NowPlaying LYR - Dark Sky Reservation (2026)

My mum has unearthed some more of my 90’s Indie music ‘zines collection! This time, it’s these from Apr/May 1994: “Alternative Music Press” 😎

#fiercebeer are back, another cracking #craftale #craftbeer #HazyIPA 🍻👌🏼

If you’ve not checkout the #bootleg archive do so, direct link in replies. #SomicYouth #JesusAndMaryChain #L7 #BabesInToyland #Nirvana #Vaselines #TheCure I’ve trawled through so far and all belters

#BlackIPA from #NorthernMonkBrewery #CraftAle #CraftBeer - not a bad drop 🍻👍🏼

Fashion parade for #pnefc retro day

LYR Kendal Brewery Arts 17.04.26 Dark Sky Reservations tour, majority new album played and rightly so. Pigeons of Eldon Street & Never Good With Horses also featured. A new tote & another meet and greet signed LP from the band.

LYR gig in Kendal tonight

#NowPlaying Bivouac - Live #Bootleg at Town & Country Club 06-12-1993 I’m made up with finding this, I saw them 12 days later supporting Neds Atomic Dustbin in Wolverhampton! archive.org/details/ajc0...

#NowPlaying Babes in Toyland - Live #Bootleg at Dreamerz, Chicago 08/09/1988 archive.org/details/ajc0...

#NowPlaying Sonic Youth Live #bootleg at Cabaret Metro 1988-11-05 archive.org/details/ajc0...

Hey @martin-moscrop.bsky.social a couple of ACR live bootlegs on here from 1984/1985 😎 archive.org/details/aada...

This is well worth a read - 10,000 concerts taped online www.pastemagazine.com/music/bootle...

The Guest List w/ Alex Spencer supporting #TheFerret #Preston Superb sounds coming out of Manchester 🎸👏🏻

Attempting to channel my inner Bernard Butler and learn to play Animal Nitrate.

#NowPlaying Treeboy & Arc - Goose (2026) Released today 🥳 in fact. The 2nd LP from this #Leeds band. First listen and it’s a banger 🎸🔊

#TFIFriday folks although I have been on leave this week, I’m having a well earned beer after a busy day of gardening and de-cluttering. 🍻 And #FactoryBrewing 🇫🇮 deliver another superb #IPA #craftale #craftbeer

Manchester shopping trip on the cards tomorrow. There will be a bit of a face off between Piccadilly Records & Clampdown Records as to whether I buy new/old or maybe it’ll be a score draw and I’ll buy a bit of both. 👀 😎🎸🔊👍🏼

#NowPlaying The Soup Dragons - Love God

Ah the single came out of the rack first… #NowPlaying The Soup Dragons - Mother Universe (1990)

#NowPlaying BMX Bandits - Star Wars (1991)

#NowPlaying Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)

#NowPlaying Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education (1990)

Watch this documentary on the Bellshill (and Glasgow) indie music scene (free stream on YouTube)whilst you can youtu.be/nCn2FeFb9Q8

I am enjoying this #ArpusBrewingCo Rhubarb #BerlinerWeisse #craftbeer Not too tart, sour or sweet. No fury teeth! Very palatable and ticks both boxes of “Rhubarb” and “Berliner Weisse”. It’s a thumbs up from me. 🍻👍🏼

The lads new guitar! Went in for an Ibanez came out with a Gretsch! 😎

Some cracking tunes being played on #BBC6Music today from 1991. 🔊 What a year for good music.

I’ve just bought a new guitar amp 🎸🔊 with built in pedal effects/patches, it feels like 1985 😎

The Postman was made up to catch me gardening this AM. Me and the wife have +/- banter with him when he delivers my #VinylRecord orders. 🤣 He was telling me about his #NewYorkDolls RSD want this morning. 😎 👌🏼 👍🏼

Onto a #FuerstWiacek x @trackbrewingco.bsky.social #DDHDIPA collab #CraftAle #CraftBeer 🍻

Consistently good #craftale #craftbeer from #FuerstWiacek 🇩🇪 , this #WestCoastIPA is a collaboration with @cloudwaterbrew.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 👌🏼

A #HazyDIPA from #SuddenDeathBrewingCo 🇩🇪 🍻 #CraftAle #CraftBeer

Third up, this #TDHDIPA from #FuerstWiacek 🇩🇪 a collab w/ #VerdantBrewingCo 🇬🇧 #CraftAle #CraftBeer well balanced and easy drinking for an 8%er

Second #craftale of the night, another #HazyIPA, this time from #SuddenDeathBrewing 🇩🇪 #craftbeer

Starting off Saturday with a Holy Goat Brewing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍻 ‘Supa Scoopa’ #HazyIPA 5.2% #CraftAle #CraftBeer Quite a lively one.

#NowPlaying Angine De Poitrine - Vol. II (released yesterday! 03 April 2026) open.spotify.com/album/3FqqIe...

Thought I’d give this #Jura French Cognac Cask edition a try. Launched August last year. Quite heavy on the cognac & a throat warmer.

Mum discovered this in a cupboard. 😊

#NowPlaying LYR - Dark Sky Reservation - released today open.spotify.com/album/5sBas4...

Released #onthisday in 1991

#TheNetherfield Blended Malt 13 Year Old #whisky #blendedwhisky Palate: pleasantly fruity, honey, blackcurrants, carries the barrel woodiness with a dry coffee finish

#TheNetherfield Linkwood 10 Year Old 🥃 #whisky #singlemaltwhisky Palate: toffee, caramel, espresso macchiato, dates, parkin cake, citrus heat and peppery dryness