So what is a Yorkshire Carbonnade ? Well originally the word carbonnade in French means a piece of meat or fish cooked slowly on hot coals (from the latin carbo, -onis, coal, charcoal). Nowadays it’s more about a piece of beef cooked in beer. Of course the most famous type of carbonnade, is a la flamande, a flemish beef stew made with ale and traditionally associated with Belgian cuisine (also called vlamms stoverij in Dutch. Where I am from, in Northern France, …
According to CAMRA (CAMpaign for Real Ale), in their Good Beer Guide 2011, Yorkshire is officially the place in the UK where there are the biggest number of breweries and the most different type of beers being brewed. And most of them are concentrated in West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties as described in this …
Have you ever heard about the “Transpennine Real Ale Trail”? If you are from the South Pennines area you probably know about it. If not, you might remember the programme “Oz and James drink to Britain” on BBC in which Oz Clarke and James May went around Britain trying to find out more about British …