The two leading trends in UK craft beer were prominent at this rebranded East London festival.
Author: pursuitofabbeyness
Wort Cooling, Demonic Interventions and the Universal Telos
The thermometer begins to plummet, like a clock ticking down the moments to the end of things. Time’s arrow is loose.
Brew Day!… “Icon”
On Imperial Russian Stouts, art, truth and mystery.
Brew Day!… “Mosaic”
Sometimes it is good to get back to basics.
Peak Craft
Derbyshire’s Peak District is dotted and surrounded by every species of brewery, but you are as likely to see their beers in the wild as you are to see a goshawk hovering over the park’s beautiful but scarred hills.
Brew Day!… “Black Forest Stout”
After a Cherry Wheat Beer fails to carbonate, I set it off in two new, and radically different directions.
Think Bubbles and Spacetime Foam
The foam of my beer tells the unfinished history of this universe, from Big Bang to self-reflection to the final pop of maximum entropy.
The Benevolence of the Brewer
An invisible hand guides Adam Smith to the shade of Saint Sixtus Abbey.
Tied Up in Notts
Taking in the Nottingham Craft Beer Festival, the absurdly-named hype-generating machine that is Neon Raptor Brewing, and the absurdly-built Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem Inn.
The Golden Ark
In the Noah Man’s Land between inner-city bar and country inn, between craft cool and cask cosiness, floats The Golden Ark, one of London’s newest micropubs.
