Some beers don’t elicit much response. You can drink and neither be inspired nor repulsed by what’s in your glass. If challenged you’d struggle to say much about it other than a loose description of colour and flavour. Then there are beers which really pull the right strings and tickle the right spots. If challenged, [...]
There is something so effortlessly natural about the combination of beer and food. Yet sadly this often means a floppy slice of pizza in one hand and a bottle of lager in another. Or worse, a handful of peanuts. Or cheese coated nachos. Not that there’s anything wrong with pizza, peanuts or cheese covered nachos, [...]
When you rate a beer (whether ‘officially’ or just as a subconscious process of deciding how much you like what you are drinking), what’s outside the glass is just as important as what’s actually in it.
I’ve come to a decision, one that I’ve been thinking about for a while now… I’m starting to rate beer.
It’s Christmas soon and inevitably you’ll be opening some special bottles. You know, those bottles which you are saving. The ones which grow in increasing numbers in the cellar/cupboard/garage/whatever. The ones which you pin imaginary labels on, such as ‘first child’, ‘when I get that promotion I deserve’, ‘wedding day’, ‘my next birthday’, ‘when I [...]
I’m betting there will be quite a few blogs about what beers people will be opening on Christmas Day this year (I’ve done one of my own for Pencil & Spoon that I’ll be posting soon). It’s my favourite day of the year, a day to celebrate and a brilliant excuse to open some good [...]
The UK drinking culture is built and based around sessionable, low ABV beers in the pub and they are drunk in pints. Of course, we have half pints too, but these are the reserve of the beer festival, or for the beer hunter who wants to drink lots of different ales or for the odd [...]
Loving beer isn’t just about drinking the one-offs, the famed rarities, the high-octane, super-stouts or insane IPAs. It’s not just about looking for the next tick, the next Top 50 beer, the latest hyped-release from your favourite brewery. Loving beer is more than that. And, sometimes, bad beers are good.
You know the one. I’m sure you’ve been asked it, like, a million times. I’m sure you’ve stood there opposite the asker, beer in hand, squirming, trying to come up with your answer, readying a monologue and then cutting it back to a few stuttered and uncomfortable words along the lines of: “Oh man, that’s [...]
Beer is a little piece of created magic and I love it. I’ve been called geeky and obsessed and that just about sums it up. But you see, the thing is, beer is endlessly fascinating. And I don’t just mean what’s in your glass, it’s everything: the history, the present, the future; the creativity; the [...]
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