We all know by this stage that from this year Cloudwater will no longer be putting its beer in casks. While cask ale was a destination on my beer journey and I continue to enjoy it, I don’t have as meaningful a relationship with it as some do, and for this reason I don’t feel
I posted my ‘Golden Pints’ for the first time last year and I was sure it would be an annual event. However, this year my heart’s not in it, which I attribute to nothing more than than the undulating landscape of mood/humour. Enthusiasm ebbs and flows like the tide, and contributing
Tottenham is getting a new brewery for Christmas, with Affinity Brew Co. set to open its doors this Saturday. With Beavertown, Redemption and One Mile End already in the area, Tottenham now boasts a bona-fide brewing community, and as a resident of the hitherto unfashionable London Borough of Haringey, I am thankful. I was
I attended the 2016 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout (BCS) press launch last night, and as you would expect the beer was wondrous. I won’t attempt to convey its essence with tasting notes – that’s better left to those whose palate hasn’t been wrecked by a west of Scotland diet of fried
I attended the 2016 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout (BCS) press launch last night, and as you would expect the beer was wondrous. I won’t attempt to convey its essence with tasting notes – that’s better left to those whose palate hasn’t been wrecked by a west of Scotland diet of fried
Unless you’ve been living on the moon, it won’t have escaped your attention that Tesco expanded its ‘craft beer’ range last month. The multinational behemoth now offers up to 30 brands at 400 of its ‘Express’ stores, with a guarantee that all beers will be refrigerated.* Good news? Well that
A lesson from last week’s news out of Stone Brewing – if you want to maintain credibility, don’t make a rhetorical rod for your back. We’re told Stone has been ‘challenging convention since 1996’, but laying off more than 50 members of staff in the wake of a multimillion dollar private equity investment
Much of the beer we like to drink – ‘craft beer’ – is made with better and more ingredients compared to ‘big beer’, and this is reflected in the price. Small-scale breweries also operate within tighter margins, and brewing isn’t a job that will make you rich (unless you decide to sell out, that is). This premium is a price
Little Earth Project in Suffolk is a producer of historic, farmhouse and sour beers that is set to launch this August. I first became aware of it in February via its Twitter account, which features some seriously stunning beer photography – think black and white shots of oaken barrels struggling
I stopped off at my local Oddbins to pick up some beers yesterday, and with a 25-minute walk home ahead of me, I chose cans (the Pressure Drop and Mondo beers above notwithstanding). We’ve all seen the infographics and articles proclaiming the superiority of cans as a container of beer,
