An experiment in ageing and “cutting” beer.
barrel ageing
Lager and Low-Alcohol at BrwLDN
The two leading trends in UK craft beer were prominent at this rebranded East London festival.
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 Facticity of the Barrel
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.
Economy of Means
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?
Four Reasons Why We Should Question the “£22 pint”
Why do we defend beer that is economically unjustifiable and the product of unsustainable late-cycle excess?
La Lune Sous L’Eau
Why Au Poêle de la Bête in Toulouse might just be one of the best beer bars in the world.
Strength in Numbers: at the Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018
Showcasing almost 800 beers from 100 breweries, the MBCC invites us to mash, sparge, boil and ferment its wealth of statistics to see what flavour comes out the other side.
Sais Who?
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.
Pasc-ale’s Wager
A Chaucerian pilgrimage to the Ales Tales Belgian Beer Festival in Bethnal Green, on which two signs are given, three poets share their wisdom, 10 ales are drunk, and one circle is closed.
Pursuit of Abbeyness 