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Five facts you may not have known about India Pale Ale for #IPAday 1 Aug 2013 | 11:31 am
IPA in India in the 19th century was drunk ice-cold There are several references to “light bitter beer” being drunk “cold as ice could make it, the most refreshing of all drinks in this climate” in t...
The highs and lows of Hong Kong’s bar scene 27 Jul 2013 | 08:23 pm
It is a truth universally acknowledged – in Wan Chai, at any rate – that a single man walking down Lockhart Road at night-time must be in want of a nice Filipina lady friend to be the Suzie Wong to hi...
Gambling on finding good beer in Macau 13 Jul 2013 | 01:16 am
Macau, today, is dedicated to the excellent pursuit of separating idiots from their money. This little peninsula on the west side of the Pearl River Delta, not even three miles long, and the two islan...
The Bass red triangle: things AB-InBev won’t tell you 29 Jun 2013 | 12:17 am
There are stupid marketeers, and there’s AB-InBev. The Belgo-Brazilians have decided to rename one of the oldest beer brands in Britain, Bass pale ale, a literally iconic IPA, as “Bass Trademark Numbe...
Beerfest Asia Singapore: the sublime and the ridiculous 18 Jun 2013 | 01:25 pm
Young Singaporeans love to PARTAAAY. Which means that while Beerfest Asia, held in the city every June since 2009, now places a hefty emphasis on craft beers from small producers, for very many of the...
The ten best songs about beer 12 Jun 2013 | 01:31 pm
Singing about beer: almost as good as drinking it. Except there are as many rubbish songs about beer as there are rubbish beers: which is to say, far too many. When the Beer Crimes Tribunal is convene...
India Session Ales – tremendous new trend or oxymoronic category fail? 4 Jun 2013 | 03:07 pm
“All the IBUs, half the ABV” is how the American beer writer Brian Yaeger describes the newest (?) beery trend in the United States: the “India Session Ale”. As you’ll have gathered, the ISA is meant ...
How long have English brewers been using American hops? Much longer than you think 27 May 2013 | 03:26 pm
How long have British brewers been using American hops? Far, far longer than you might have guessed: for around two centuries, in fact. The earliest evidence I’ve collected so far of hops from the Uni...
So who are the big beery twitterers? 22 May 2013 | 02:44 pm
Jamie Oliver, the thick-tongued TV chef and hugely successful restaurant entrepreneur (and son of an Essex pub landlord), has 3.3 million followers on Twitter. Which is, you’ll not be shocked to hear,...
The earliest use of the term India pale ale was … in Australia? 14 May 2013 | 01:36 pm
The continuing fantastic expansion in the number of old documents scanned, OCR’d and available on the internet is presenting the lucky historical searcher with constant opportunities to push back the ...
