An experiment in ageing and “cutting” beer.
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Lager and Low-Alcohol at BrwLDN
The two leading trends in UK craft beer were prominent at this rebranded East London festival.
Brew Day!… “Black Forest Stout”
After a Cherry Wheat Beer fails to carbonate, I set it off in two new, and radically different directions.
Tied Up in Notts
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
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 Multitude of Sins
London’s Beavertown Brewery celebrated its seventh birthday with seven collaboration beers. Here’s what I thought about them.
Economy of Means
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?
Brew Day!… “My Cherry Amour”
My first attempt at a fruit beer had me grappling with a mathematical formula and a lot of questions.
Four Reasons Why We Should Question the “£22 pint”
Why do we defend beer that is economically unjustifiable and the product of unsustainable late-cycle excess?
Brew Day!… “Espress Yourself”
A coffee-bean stout saw me put two new bits of kit from Speidel to work: the Kellermeister conical fermenter and the Braumeister stainless steel wort chiller.
Pursuit of Abbeyness 