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Salopian Brewery 28 Jun 2013 | 03:16 pm
Four of the best British beers I’ve drunk this year have been made by Salopian Brewery. Oracle is like the other 4% ABV pale and hoppy beers, only it’s better. Drinking the beer and scribbling down ....
Germany Beer Trip 10 Jun 2013 | 12:21 pm
In March 2013, I spent a week traveling around Germany drinking beer. From Hamburg, to Cologne and Dusseldorf, down to Munich, up to Bamberg, then across to Berlin via a lunch stop in Leipzig. I went ...
To Simon 5 Jun 2013 | 11:48 am
Today we raise our beers to Simon Johnson. It doesn’t matter what beer we raise as long as we love drinking it. It doesn’t even matter if it’s not a beer – all that matters is that in your glass is a...
Craft Beer World Book Launch! 24 Apr 2013 | 11:49 am
My book is released next week, which is both extraordinarily exciting and monumentally scary! It’s on national release and available in the UK and US plus a few other English-speaking countries. You c...
Great beer in Paris 16 Apr 2013 | 01:49 am
Is there great beer in Paris or just £10 pints of Pelforth? Matt and I started in Cave à Bulles the day before the Paris marathon (so we didn’t drink anything). I hoped to find a few interesting Fren...
Paris Marathon 2013 8 Apr 2013 | 11:56 pm
If I ever taste anything more remarkable than the three pieces of fresh orange and the bottle of Vittel that I had at 40km of the Paris marathon then I will have tasted perfection. I was fine until 3...
Cask and Craft: Time to stop the fight 4 Apr 2013 | 12:14 pm
I’m so utterly, infuriatingly frustrated with the whole cask and craft discussion in the UK right now that it makes me wish I wrote about wine because it’s frankly embarrassing. Why is there this in-f...
For a good cause 3 Apr 2013 | 11:55 am
On Sunday 7 April I’m running the Paris Marathon. You don’t need to collect sponsorship to run it but my intention was always to try and raise a bit of money by doing it. Scared I might not be able to...
The Social Appropriateness of Alcohol Free Beer 27 Mar 2013 | 02:56 pm
In Weiss Bräu, a cool brewpub in Cologne, I ordered a beer, sat back and took out my notebook and pencil to write some stuff down: behind me was a large table of students, happy, celebrating something...
Berlin Brewpubs 20 Mar 2013 | 04:33 pm
I wasn’t prepared for the snow that blanketed Berlin the night before I arrived. Getting off the train, into the shock of the cold, trying to drag a suitcase while slipping over in my Converse every f...
