Changing Expectations
There is something which irrevocably shifts following great beers, especially when you go searching for them and drink them a lot. I drink more bottles at home than pints in the pub. I drink a lot of...
View ArticleSan Francisco baby!
I’m going to San Francisco! I’ll be there for most of Beer Week (which Ken is covering in his post this week). I’m also heading up to Santa Rosa where I’ll stay while visiting Russian River, Bear...
View ArticleSan Francisco Beers of my Week
I’m back from the US. What a week that was – I had the best time! So, where do I begin…? Let’s refrain from a blow-by-blow re-cap of the week. I’m sure you don’t need to hear about the details of my...
View ArticleSomething Sour; Part of the Journey
For the past year I’ve been on a massive hop bender. I have literally just wanted to drink as many hops as possible, stuffed as aggressively as possible into any beer I could find. It virtually got to...
View ArticleIn Dispense
I’m interested in the dispense of good beer. In the last few month I have had good beer from a hand-pulled cask, cask beer from gravity, beer from a keg, beer from various different bottles (some...
View ArticleA London Drinker
I can’t resist a beer festival. Living near London means that throughout the year I have a good selection of them. The big one is the Great British Beer Festival in August, then there’s the Pigs Ear in...
View ArticleA Fast Cask
This week Marston’s revealed what could be the next generation of cask ale: the Fast Cask. The hope is that this will revolutionise the quality and availability of cask ale. Cask ale is very important....
View ArticlePlanet Thanet Beer Festival
Easter weekend means a trip to Margate for the Planet Thanet Beer Festival. This is always at the top of my must-attend beer events – it’s got the great combination of place, people and beer selection...
View ArticleDangerously Bitter
I love big hops, I can’t resist them. I can exactly pin-point where my love of the hop began: New Years Eve 2008 and a bomber of Stone’s Ruination IPA. As a young drinker, unversed in the delights of...
View ArticleThe Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation
We arrive at the Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation a couple of hours after it starts. Usually this means queuing or having to stand for the next few hours, but not here. There’s something very...
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