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Tied Up in Notts

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

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

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

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.

Brew Day!… “Equinox”

April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

As the summer lion overcomes the winter bull, the brewer turns his mind to the joyful high time of the year.

Last Orders

April 8, 2019April 8, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

Bottle shops liquidating? A microbrewery in a football stadium? The cycle has peaked and the bell is ringing.

The Facticity of the Barrel

March 19, 2019March 26, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

If the en soi of a Bourbon barrel constrains the pour soi of the beer that is geworfen into it, the culture of a wild beer is the nothingness—the incipient, the contingent—that creates a space for the transcendence of foeder-facticity.

On Clones, Colour and Cassonade

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 2 Comments

One of my Pursuit of Abbeyness XII brew-day posts received a spike of traffic from the Homebrew Talk forum. I went and eavesdropped on the discussion.

A Multitude of Sins

February 17, 2019March 16, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

London’s Beavertown Brewery celebrated its seventh birthday with seven collaboration beers. Here’s what I thought about them.

A FSTA Buck

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

Asahi’s acquisition of London’s iconic Fuller’s brewing business had a shocked beer world searching for explanations last Friday. But the explanation is simple: this is a once-in-a-generation offer that Fuller’s board would have been negligent to turn down.

Economy of Means

January 19, 2019January 20, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

Craft has an economics, and therefore it has an ethics, and those ethics are grounded in the economy of means. So what to make of a craft beer that feels like a triumph of rigmarole over substance?

Gratitude, Alienation and Taprooms

January 2, 2019May 13, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

The brewery taproom is one of the temples in which we gather to say a secular grace, in a ritual designed to alienate ourselves from our true sense of alienation.

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