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Peak Craft

September 9, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

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.

Think Bubbles and Spacetime Foam

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

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 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.

Zythological Investigations

March 12, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

When Young Ludwig and Old Ludwig step into the pub, a choice of six IPAs leads to an era-defining insight into the nature of language.

The Hook Norton Brewery & the Brexit Bacillus

February 5, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 5 Comments

Hook Norton no longer uses its magificent copper coolship because a heat exchanger does the job far more quickly and with much less risk. So what's all this about "E.U. rules"?

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