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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.

Brew Day!… “Black Forest Stout”

August 5, 2019August 16, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

After a Cherry Wheat Beer fails to carbonate, I set it off in two new, and radically different directions.

Sais Who?

April 30, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

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.

France… via Bristol

October 23, 2017May 13, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

How catching the opening hours of Bristol Beer Week and walking across the Clifton Suspension Bridge got me thinking about French beer.

Pasc-ale’s Wager

July 26, 2017November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 3 Comments

A Chaucerian pilgrimage to the Ales Tales Belgian Beer Festival in Bethnal Green, on which two signs are given, three poets share their wisdom, 10 ales are drunk, and one circle is closed.

Brew Day!… “Pacific Northwest”

July 17, 2017November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 4 Comments

With a couple of friends to lend a helping hand, brew day can be a hospitable time of aimless conversation, mutual admiration of shiny brewing equipment, and shameless indulgence in good beer, cheese and ham.

Time: the Secret Ingredient

July 17, 2017November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 9 Comments

With Vintage Beer, Patrick Dawson has given us a handy, easy-to-use book on a topic that is attracting more and more attention from beer drinkers.

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