Welcome to our new monthly column all about Portman Road’s favourite microbrewery. If you haven’t heard of us before, we are a young brewery founded by myself and my husband Mike – originally brewing from our garage at home and now in our unit on Stadium Way. We are proud to be from Reading and love putting Reading on the map as one of the country’s best beer towns – so much so that we’ve called our year-round lager DING – brewed in and for our hometown!
We love to make modern and exciting craft beers at Double-Barrelled – from crisp lagers to hoppy IPAs all the way to zingy fruited sour beers and rich, dark stouts.
This week we’ve released our latest stout – Lil’ Beans. This pocket-sized pint clocks in at 3.5% and proves that you don’t have to compromise on flavour when going for something more sessionable! Collaboration is a core part of our ethos – we love working together with other brewers to learn and experiment with new and exciting ingredients. For Lil’ Beans we teamed up with our friends from Villages Brewery in London, using cacao husks and nibs, vanilla pods and tonka beans! Tonka bean? What’s that when it’s at home? These little black beans have a beautiful nutty spiciness that pairs beautifully with smooth vanilla and bitter chocolate – making for a perfect beer on a cold winter’s night!
December is here once again, and that can only mean one thing: CHRISTMAS! Don’t panic though, the team at Double-Barrelled are here to help. With enough beers to get the party going, and gifts to put a smile on the face of the beer fan in your life, be sure to make us the first stop on your Christmas shopping trip!
Join us at our onsite bar – The Taproom – every Friday and Saturday for brewery fresh beers to enjoy in, and cans to take home. And as an extra treat this Sunday we are playing host to Reading’s Indie Market! For one day only we turn the brewery into an indoor market hall, joined by local traders and makers with street food and artisan coffee too – could there be a better beer pairing? We’ll wait! Come and visit us on Sunday from 12 – 5.00pm, we can’t wait to see you!
And if you can’t make it down to the brewery this weekend, or if you prefer to do your Christmas shopping online, we offer free Friday local delivery to selected RG postcodes for orders over £30 via our webstore. Christmas? Bring it on!
