Blogs about Beer

Recently I was stood outside Huddersfield Railway Station waiting for my Replacement Bus Service. I was eating much needed food from a nearby fast food outlet and contemplating my next move. Other match-goers had gone …

Sitting at the bar in my local pub, the Great Northern Railway Tavern, earlier in the year, I noticed the regular guest lager produced by the brewery I co-owned, Bohem Brewery, had been replaced by …

The craft beer goldrush is long over but nobody seems to have told the supermarkets. You can still get a reasonable selection of small-batch beers in most of them, and they keep on commissioning specials …

Westvleteren 12: How did a strong dark ale from a tiny monastery brewery in North West Belgium become the world’s most sought-after beer? The post West Is Best — How Westvleteren 12 Accidentally Became “The …

Here’s all the writing about beer and pubs that grabbed our attention in the past week, from Samuel Smith to red hot pokers. First, some news that’s created ripples among beer geeks, even if it’s …

All beer geeks like to occasionally have something that reminds us of when we were first getting into craft beer, so I enjoyed seeing some proper Beer Discourse triggered by a Matt Curtis article yesterday. …

Well, they would be mailed-in if we hadn’t had a postal strike here in Canada. My Christmas cards are in limbo. Parcels replaced with e-cards. How unjolly. So I have had to find other things …

Here’s the third round-up (of five) of pubs from this year’s Winter Warmer Wander, Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark, strong and festive beers. This one covers points (north-)east. Usually on Mild …

Regular readers may remember a post I wrote at the beginning of November, concerning the Swan, in the village of West Peckham. The post describes how a buyout, by the local community, successfully raised the …

A couple years back, people would joke that they were tired of living in unprecedented times. Well, we’re still there and I don’t really see anyone laughing. Inflation is a real problem and it comes …

I was in London last week for a few days and decided on a whim to have one entire day - or thereabouts - just drinking cask. "Unwise" I hear you say and of course …

Gipsy Wedding It comes down to kegs, Sam McMeekin says. In an era of spiralling costs and deep-pocketed big-brewery rivals, kegs provide the simplest explanation as to why the brewery he co-founded in 2014, Gipsy …

It’s a claim you will find repeated in dozens – possibly hundreds – of places: that the so-called “Hymn to Ninkasi”, a poem in the Sumerian language to the goddess of beer, at least 3,900 …