Rejoice at the CAMRA vote!
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*I've found the recent outbreak of people spouting nonsense about CAMRA
surprisingly disturbing*. But I have to accept that everyone can get it
wrong and ...
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said
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I watched a bit of a programme on BBC1 last night in which TV chef Hugh
Fearnley-Whittingstall launched a personal crusade against obesity,
starting with a...
Don't Bam Tennent's
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Yesterday I happened to notice the tweet mentioned in this great article in
the *Daily Record*. Our dear friends *BrewDog,* thought it might be
awesome t...
A Glossary of Terms
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Amongst all the chat about the Campaign for Real Ale’s AGM at the weekend
we noticed a few old questions resurfacing: why, exactly, does CAMRA
campaign f...
Hail to the König!
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There are times when I peruse the beer aisles in the various supermarkets
and bottle shops I frequent that I wonder how some prices for 6 packs are
justifi...
Touches of class
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Dorothy pretty much insisted I try the *Timmermans Oude Kriek* from 2013. I
didn't take much coercion, having previously enjoyed the aged Lambic and
Geuze ...
Systembolaget: Tillfälliga lokala nyheter maj 2018
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66 nya lokala småskaliga öl kommer till diverse butiker 2 maj 2018. Området
ger en indikation om var de finns i butikshyllorna. Om de finns i depån kan
d...
Beer and Seafood: Match Made in Heaven?
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Probatum est? The association of beer with crustaceans or fish is
traditional. I’ll give two instances here, bracketing a period of
approximately 100 year...
Wijn, bier en veel cider
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Woensdagochtend begin ik op een beschaafde tijd aan mijn eerste meerdaagse
buitenlandse reis van dit jaar. Vanaf Arnhem gaat het met de
Abellio-Regionalexp...
Goodbye
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I never realised this was still active.
However due to the untimely demise of the creator of the site I feel it is
inappropriate to to keep it going.
The ...
Denali, Hazy Daze... NEIPA!
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[image: Near the end of the boil.]I’ve given up writing recipes with more
than one new-to-me hop variety. When the beer is ready, I don't know which
one to...
Cantillon
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*There's no reason not to visit Cantillon: it's one of the world's most
extraordinary breweries, and they welcome guests. *Its moody side street
location i...
Gary Come Home
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GARY!As someone who is well known for working for a supermarket, I'm often
called upon (not exactly "called upon", but that never stops me sticking in
my ...
A Few Easter Beers in Písek
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As we’ve been doing the last few years, we spent Easter with relatives, in
*Strakonice*. On Saturday, we went to *Tábor*, an uninteresting town
beewise*, b...
Reviewed: Kombucha, Kefir, and Beyond
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Kombucha, Kefir, and Beyond By Alex Lewin and Raquel Guajardo Fair Winds
Press Co-written by Alex Lewin and Raquel Guajardo, Kombucha, Kefir, and
Beyond i...
When and How German Beer Gardens Fall Short.
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It's early April, a wonderful and frustrating time to be a beer garden
enthusiast in Germany. Spring has sprung, the sun has too, and as the
warmth grows s...
Homage to Catalonian beer tourism
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So there I was at the Barcelona Beer Festival talking to Jason Wolford, a
native of Portland, Oregon, about the quantity of chamomile that goes into
the ch...
A catatonic beer industry
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After several years of careful consideration as to the future of Hardknott
and in particular after I have examined the beer industry very closely it
is my ...
Blind tasting Pils for our local
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There are a few things that are worth dusting off the old beer blog for,
and a blind tasting is certainly one of them. In this case, a blind tasting
to dec...
All or nothing
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A quick note on CAMRA’s “Revitalisation” project. The changes recommended
by the Executive, following three rounds of membership consultation, are
currentl...
Pilgrimage
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*can’t remember where this was, but I am sure it is in the Czech Republic*
Pilgrimage. What do we think of when we think of a pilgrimage? How about
the n...
This is BIG
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*Hi there. *
I know, I know: nothing for years. The blog is dead, long live Twitter.
But you know? Some things deserve more space.
And this...is *BIG*.
No,...
Changes A-Coming
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Yes, this blog is miserably out-of-date, which is why I am preparing to
scrap the whole thing and replace it with something more user-friendly.
Please bear...
Dutch Beer of the Week
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BROUWERIJ DE EEM DORSTIG
I've always had a soft spot for De Eem - I first encountered them many
years ago at the Great British Beer Festival when I picked u...
A note on beer skimmers
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Many years before I ever visited the Netherlands I learned through reading
that it was commonplace for bar staff there to pour Pils with a large head
of...
Breakfast Beer Tasting: Camba Coffee Porter
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Dark mornings and dark evenings. Time to go to the dark side. Well here we
are. You like coffee in the morning. You like beer in the morning-after
all, who...
2017 – a great year for this beer writer!
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It’s been quite a year! I’m hardly blogging, but that does not mean I’m
not busy doing beer things. 2017 has been very rewarding. I have attended a
numbe...
Save the Greys!
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*Save the Greys! Local community bids to purchase famous Brighton music
venue*
*The following press release is courtesy of Phil Mellows*
Pub-goers have l...
The ultimate beer measures table
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This really was an idle moment, prompted by a Twitter discussion about the
meaning of various words for beer measures. Self-explanatory, I hope, and
comm...
A Quick Blog Post For IPA Day
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*If you really want to know why IPA was supposedly so strong and hoppy,
look not to the breweries, but to India...*
Today is apparently International Let's...
I just believe in beer
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(With apologies to John Lennon) Beer is a concept By which we swallow our
pain I’ll say it again Beer is a concept By which we swallow our pain I
don’t b...
In a Post-Craft World, Let’s Just Try Transparency
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My new column in BeerAdvocate Magazine this month is out and has already
sparked some heated exchanges on Twitter. I’ve always been a drink whatever
I like...
The Hot Soup Card
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Bank Holidays should be water off a ducks back to a seasoned pro like
meself.
I know what to expect:
By midday there's at least a dozen lurkers all lined u...
Irish Craft In London - One Year On...
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As we head into the early Spring, it's almost time to get up to speed with
a new round of events featuring the best of the Irish Craft Beer Scene. In
2016,...
Relocation Notification For AGBB Nation
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By the end of 2016, this part of the internets will be no more. The blog
posts are being moved to the new home of *A Good Beer Blog* but this place,
this...
Arrived in London
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The travel was uneventful -- I missed the Delta meltdown by a day. After
getting settled in our rooms, we headed out for a beer.
First stop was a new place...
Blast From the Past: June 2007
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Prowling through the archives just now looking for a post I vaguely
remember which, if it exists, has some information that would brighten up a
column I am...
A Czech Influence on Belgian Brewing
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The influence of Czech brewing often seems surprisingly underappreciated
abroad. The great Czech brewing scientist František Ondřej Poupě might have
writte...
A bicycle made for brew – part two
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By Liz Dodd Click here to read part one of our beery bike ride Westvleteren
to Roeselare I lay still inside a horse shed in a Belgian field and
listened to...
Albany Ale: Chico and The Man
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Stan is currently working on his forthcoming book *Brewing Local, *and
he's been kind enough to inquire about Albany Ale for the project. We've
been emaili...
The End
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I returned to Harrogate after my whirlwind tour and started back at
Roosters. With only a week and a half left in the UK, it didn’t take long
to return to...
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ALL in united states
World T0ur. With the Statue of Liberty as a national icon, the United
States is widely known as the Land of Liberty. Over the last fe...
Brew Day: Pliny the Elder-ish
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It is not often that I try and clone a commercial beer. In all the years
I've been home brewing, I can think of only a few instances where I've
brewed a cl...
Thomas Hardy's Ale Reborn
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This beauty arrived by post yesterday so I thought it was time to end my
silence.
The rights to the Thomas Hardy Ale name have now passed to a company in...
Att hantera negativ kritik
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För några månader sedan beställde jag ca 20 öl från nya svenska
hantverksbryggerier som jag inte testar förut. Vilken kväll det blev! Jag
vaskade mer än pr...
Einde.
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Aan alles komt ‘n end. Ook aan dat woord, geloof ik, want “end” is
ouderwets en nou zegt iedereen “einde”. Ik ook maar dan. Dit blog gaat
dicht. Ja. Maar e...
Pub Interiors
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Recently, I had beery evenings over three successive nights that took in
three very different kinds of pub, almost a tour of London’s pub history in
a way....
Inundation and Appreciation
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Life post-brewing has been kind. I’ll be honest, I don’t have any source of
income at the moment (which has a few downsides) but there is the hope that
one...
How to class up your house
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The key is by rearranging your house is going to watch some pictures of a
modern house or hire in a specialist normally white walls, red carpets, art
pa...
Natural light and darkness
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We’ve spent a good deal of time this weekend trying to keep a nest of baby
black birds safe from marauding magpies. The parents are doing the best
they can...
The Last Toast - The Final Capital Times Column
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I have reflected several times recently about how beer has changed in New
Zealand over the last two or three decades, and for this my final column
I’m goi...
Lager arrives after WW II
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Still on the hiatus from blogging (is nearly three years still a hiatus?),
there’s some great stuff being blogged about the origins of the lager boom
in th...
New Parents- Get Thee to the Pub!
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So I'm a mum now. It inevitably changes your life- new bits wobble, going
to bed at 11pm feels like a late night and the living room floor looks like
a Fis...
Tuber Babies, Human Sacrifice and Harvest Home.
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I’m reading the fascinating Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers by Stephen
Harrod Buhner, and was quite taken by the myth of Mani, the magic baby girl
born of ...
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*Froth! * The Science of Beer
Mark Denny
2009, HB, 183pp
The Johns Hopkins University Press
£13.50 delivered from Amazon
Reviewed July 2012
Mark Den...
Again, Apfelwein
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Of course I had to make it. Apfelwein. Apple juice + (optional) corn sugar
+ yeast = alcohol. Takes like five minutes to make, five weeks to ferment,
and a...
L'Aveu.
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*Carlsberg Suisse*, enfin, *Feldschlösschen*, viennent de laisser passer un
aveu majeur, dont je me demande s'ils ont bien saisi la portée...
Dans un comm...
A preview of May’s guest beers…
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Our first beer fest might be over, but we’ve a cellar full of great ales
that will be making an appearance in May. Tomorrow we’ll be kicking off the
week w...
Fantastic Frankfurt Webcam
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I’ve stumbled upon such a nice and simple live webcam of Frankfurt am Main
skyline. It updates the pic by reload once a minute or so. This is how
Frankfurt...
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