October 10, 2018
Food and drinks around the world are gaining stickers, labels and little stamps for all sorts of things nowadays; whether it be health reasons, not tested on animals or one of many other reasons. Not all of these things are important or can lead to a benefit for the product, humanity or the planet, however, there are three terms that get associated with coffee that we think are important and worth understanding. These are: Fair Trade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance Certified. Here we’re going to give each of these a little break down so that when you next see them you know why they’re important to your cup of coffee and the world near and far.
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September 26, 2018
The Profile
A red ale is a form of pale ale that is categorised by its colour. There’s still debate around the fact of whether or not a red ale is really its own class of ale or whether or not it falls under the umbrella of English bitter. A red ale is categorised by a slight sweetness and tea-like flavours. It has a light hop and toasted malt flavours, making it a well-balanced beer. It is made with a high proportion of pale malts and often contains caramel colouring to give it its signature red hue. It is often that red ales will have a dry finish. These beers are very easy drinking, as our very own Tim Martin will tell you from personal experience!
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August 31, 2018
So you may have noticed that we’re no longer open early in the mornings and that we’re not serving takeaway coffees. We’ve also put our takeaway food services on hold as well. Unfortunately, we’ve had one our neighbours raise concerns with the council about our our takeaway services, saying that these don’t fit inside our business parameters. The council's decision landed in favour of our disgruntled neighbour and, reluctantly, we’ve had to accept their ruling for the time being until we can find a way to rectify this. If you want a little more information on this issue than read on.
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August 29, 2018
The Profile
Pilsner is a pale lager and a famous style of beer that has been replicated the world over, although often not to great effect. A true pilsner, from the Czech Republic or Germany, has a medium to full body, is a light golden yellow in colour, has high carbonation and floral hops which give the beer a crisp yet bitter finish. It is most important for a pilsner to be refreshing yet delicate. It should also have a dense fluffy head.
One of the most important aspects of a true pilsner is the soft water used to make it. This is one of the reasons why pilsner still has such a strong link with its hometown of Pilsen; because it’s very hard to recreate the quality of the water found there.
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August 27, 2018
As we gain a reputation for the exceptional quality and taste of our beer we have more and more people inquiring about touring our brewery. Therefore, we thought it best to lay out our tour packages in an easy to find place; the internet!!
Both packages offered include a deep delve into what makes beer beer! We’ll also go through the history of TRBC with you -so you can see how we journeyed from the beginnings in a garden shed to where we are today- before sharing the taste of some of our exquisite brews with you. Anyway, without further ado, here are the tour packages we offer.
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August 22, 2018
As any business grows so does the amount of services it offers. We’ve grown from a simple tasting shop attached to a tyre shop, to a fully fledged brewery welcoming live acts, serving homemade food alongside our full sized beers and roasting our own coffee beans. Now the time has come for us to introduce a sort of “VIP” club for all of you loyal TRBC fans to help you feel extra special and for you stay properly up to date on all the things happing down here at TRBC headquarters. What are the details of said club we hear you ask? Read on dear reader, the details lie below!
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August 15, 2018
The flavour of coffee, like wine, is affected by the soil, altitude and climate that it is grown in. Also, like wines grapes, the variety of bean used to brew coffees also contribute a lot to the flavours of your cup. Where coffee and wine differ here is that there are thousands of varieties of wine grapes and many different varieties have dedicated followings. With coffee, however, we don’t have this variation in the beans and you might be surprised to hear that there are only two types of beans that we use to produce most the worlds third most popular beverage; arabica and robusta. We are not saying these are the only varieties of coffee bean but they are the only ones used to produce coffee.
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August 06, 2018
Sundays - Thursday
10am - 8pm
Fridays & Saturdays
10am - Midnight
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August 01, 2018
Porters are beers made with brown malts, creating a deep, dark coloured ale. These malts give off richer flavours of coffee, chocolate, dark fruits and caramel, often with some vanilla and toffee swilling around in the glass too. Hops? Not too prominent a flavour here, mainly used just for bittering, and any hop flavour there is will complement the flavours of the malts.
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July 23, 2018
Our fourth and newest single origin, Blue Batak, is still warm from its roasting so -being high on the fumes of freshly roasted coffee- we thought we’d take a minute to tell you about it. It won’t be available until the 5th of August, but we’re so excited about its uniqueness that we wanted to spill the bean; pun intended ;)
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