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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.

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.

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.

CAMRA Obscura

April 22, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 3 Comments

CAMRA's important AGM re-asserted its mission as a campaign for "real ale", but did it also damagingly entrench itself as a campaign against quality keg-dispensed beer?

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