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More shite about real ale and craft beer. 15 Jul 2013 | 03:53 pm
This is a letter (in fact, the only letter) published in "Canny Bevvy", Tyneside CAMRA's propaganda pamphlet, issue 224, Summer 2013.
What is craft beer? 10 Jul 2013 | 04:08 pm
I've been meaning to have a go at this subject, but as yet I can't be arsed. So here's one pub's take on the subject. It's from The Feathers Inn in Northumberland.
Beer on the telly! Me on the telly! 30 Jan 2013 | 09:43 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE Beer has had a few favourable telly appearances recently. National newspapers still seem reluctant to give coverage to things beery but telly people ...
The Palate Cleansing Taste Of Onion 9 Jan 2013 | 04:01 pm
This Walkers Sensations packaging blurb has had me chuckling all morning.
"The UK is ripe for a beer-drinking revolution" - 2001 13 Dec 2012 | 04:43 pm
Here's a piece the Daily Telegraph did on Microbar from August 2001. I dug it out while searching for quotes for a press release for Steve's brewing venture "Out There Brewing Company." Some of the q...
SIBA Beer Judging – Not Fit For Purpose? 9 Nov 2012 | 09:58 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE I recently judged at SIBA’s Great Northern Beer Competition at the Mercure Hotel in Manchester. SIBA is on organisation I respect. I have considera...
"All Lager Tastes The Same" 3 Oct 2012 | 10:35 pm
In my local CAMRA newsletter, the Furness Innquirer (geddit?), I spotted this: The irksome sentence occurs in a contributor's beer-related observations in an account of a holiday to India. This sort...
Leeds International Beer Festival 9 Sep 2012 | 03:21 am
As I type, the last session of the Leeds International Beer Festival will be in full swing. My brother Steve and I attended last night. As a non-CAMRA event the format seemed a little strange – brewe...
CAMRA-Bashing from 2001 20 Aug 2012 | 05:23 pm
Another dusty clipping from my archive. CAMRA attacked in consumer poll 16 August 2001 Liverpool brewer’s research concludes real ale group is out-of-touch The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has aga...
Before "Craft Beer" 20 Aug 2012 | 05:19 pm
I have all sorts of old stuff lurking in my documents folder. Lots of old beer-related clipping from as long ago as 1998 which was about the time newspapers were starting to publish on the web. Here'...
