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Brew Day!… “Cuvée Covid”

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

An experiment in ageing and “cutting” beer.

Wort Cooling, Demonic Interventions and the Universal Telos

February 11, 2020February 14, 2020 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

The thermometer begins to plummet, like a clock ticking down the moments to the end of things. Time’s arrow is loose.

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.

Brew Day!… “Equinox”

April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

As the summer lion overcomes the winter bull, the brewer turns his mind to the joyful high time of the year.

“Memento Mori”: Another Lesson in Serendipity

October 2, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 4 Comments

If you stumble blindly and incompetently into your brewing masterpiece, will you ever be able to revisit that triumph?

Store in a Quiet Place, or Tweeting in Tynt Meadow

September 1, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 3 Comments

This summer, England got its first certified Trappist ale. While not yet perfect, it already shows signs that it will honour Belgian abbey ale traditions in an authentically English accent – confident in its own quiet authority.

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.

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.

Born-Again Beer

April 1, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 2 Comments

On Easter Sunday we ask, does beer really prove that God loves us and wants us to be happy, or reveal us to be of the Devil's party without knowing it?

Zythological Investigations

March 12, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

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.

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