Shut up about Barclay Perkins

16:27 Lovely duck demolished. Slightly black and crispy, but Jamie's food on the telly is often burnt, too. The wininess of the w...

15:36 I'm sitting at the Barclay Perkins nerve centre. My craoppy little computer desk The medical gauziness combines wonderfully...

14:15 Bit late with this. Too busy tucking into my starter. Goat chesse pastry, if you're wondering. And salad. Lots of salad. Th...

13:46 The starters are just about done so this will have to be quick. ETA of the first course is 2 pm. This is always a solemn moment...

12:58 I'm so behind schedule this year. Almost 1 pm and I've only just poured my first Laphroaig. I could see the disappointment i...

12:23 A disappointigly slow pace so far today. Been busy with little details like stuffing the duck and making myself breakfast. A gr...

10:42 Welcome to Drinkalongathon 2014! Bit of a late start this year. I've been busy making the stuffing for the duck. And searching...

There are some things that defy reason. The popularity of my Drinkalongathon is a great example. I say popularity. Two readers have sai...

"What about something special for Christmas?" Kristen suggested. Good idea, as Wednesday is Weisswurst day this year. Being a ...

I've thrown together a schedule for my trip to the Southeast USA. Nothing set in stone yet, but it is do-able in a practical sense. It...

Yehee! Another series finished. I'm finally done with reporting last month's Northwest trip. This time it's the turn of tiny F...

When I said my Northwestern tour would complete my coverage of the US, some correctly pointed out that this wasn't true as I'd not b...

I bet you thought I’d forgotten about this series, based on an article by Narziss in the Journal of the Institute of Brewing. And you’d be...

Staying with the Wahls, we’re now considering the different storage method employed by British and German brewers. It stresses the diffe...

Silly me. I’d forgotten I’d collected more on Pilsener in WW I. Blame all my recent travelling. A couple of times recently someone has m...

It's that time of year again. Just before Santa is due to call, comes my annual pilgrimage to Essen for the Kerstbierfestival . I lo...

Not much this time. Just a table of analyses. It's in the Wahls' book, but they had borrowed them from someone else: "Com...

In case you hadn’t guessed, this is more from the Wahls. Where they compare British top-fermenting beer with German bottom-fermenting beer...