The two leading trends in UK craft beer were prominent at this rebranded East London festival.
Beavertown
Last Orders
Bottle shops liquidating? A microbrewery in a football stadium? The cycle has peaked and the bell is ringing.
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.
A Multitude of Sins
London’s Beavertown Brewery celebrated its seventh birthday with seven collaboration beers. Here’s what I thought about them.
A Tale of Two Breweries
A mere three years and three kilometres separates Cornwall’s Rebel and Verdant Brewing Companies, but their fortunes have been continents apart.
World Famous in Denmark
Despite its name, most businesses in the craft beer industry are differentiated less by their products or manufacturing processes and more by their brand identities.