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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!… “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.

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 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?

Brew Day!… “My Cherry Amour”

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 2 Comments

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”

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?

Brew Day!… “Espress Yourself”

July 23, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 2 Comments

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.

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