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Brew Day!… “Cuvée Covid”

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

An experiment in ageing and “cutting” beer.

Lager and Low-Alcohol at BrwLDN

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

The two leading trends in UK craft beer were prominent at this rebranded East London festival.

Brew Day!… “Icon”

December 29, 2019December 29, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

On Imperial Russian Stouts, art, truth and mystery.

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 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.

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.

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?

Four Reasons Why We Should Question the “£22 pint”

September 24, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

Why do we defend beer that is economically unjustifiable and the product of unsustainable late-cycle excess?

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