Brewing my first genuine hazy IPA.
IPA
Lager and Low-Alcohol at BrwLDN
The two leading trends in UK craft beer were prominent at this rebranded East London festival.
Peak Craft
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.
Brew Day!… “Equinox”
As the summer lion overcomes the winter bull, the brewer turns his mind to the joyful high time of the year.
A Multitude of Sins
London’s Beavertown Brewery celebrated its seventh birthday with seven collaboration beers. Here’s what I thought about them.
Brew Day!… “My Cherry Amour”
My first attempt at a fruit beer had me grappling with a mathematical formula and a lot of questions.
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.
Zythological Investigations
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.