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Month: April 2018

Sais Who?

April 30, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

An encounter with Mark Tranter, founder of the Saison-specialist Burning Sky Brewery, coincides with a homebrewed Grisette, inspiring some reflections on these rough-and-ready, Belgian workers’ ales.

CAMRA Obscura

April 22, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 3 Comments

CAMRA's important AGM re-asserted its mission as a campaign for "real ale", but did it also damagingly entrench itself as a campaign against quality keg-dispensed beer?

Beer, Wellbeing and Hyperbolic Discounting

April 17, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

A new study says we can drink a pint of beer a day with no extra risk of early death. But implicitly it also asks, is adding an extra pint per day worth foregoing two years of life?

Born-Again Beer

April 1, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 2 Comments

On Easter Sunday we ask, does beer really prove that God loves us and wants us to be happy, or reveal us to be of the Devil's party without knowing it?

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