Opinion
Topical articles and pieces from a personal point of view.
GBBF provides perfect chance for CAMRA to prove its relevance
There was a great deal of upset over the appearance of Rishi Sunak at this year’s Great British Beer Festival (GBBF). This should not come as surprise...
Starting a new thiologue
I first heard about thiols at the Great British Beer Festival’s Learn and Discovery bar last year. I had ostensibly signed up to volunteer because if...
What can we learn from Czech pubs?
I had a few hours to kill in Prague recently before my flight back to the UK. What to do? A museum perhaps? As if. No, I went to the pub. Three, in fa...
Global brewers are destroying brewing heritage
Global brewers are hell-bent on destroying great beers and breweries. In Britain, Heineken has closed the Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh on the groun...
The emperor’s new clothes?
Making my way to a table just in front of the bar at my new local, Stockport’s the Magnet, I take a seat and watch a near constant stream of people ap...
Sharing the lager love
As a child of the 1980s and a fledgling beer drinker in the early 2000s, I don’t mind telling you that I have consumed a fair amount of macro lager in...
A healthy respect for beer
What is it about the British that we treat beer, our national drink, with such lack of respect? I spent several days in Belgium last month on a work a...
Review: Desi Pubs – good for beer, food and society
Can a book about pubs be heart-warming? It can, as Desi Pubs is about more – far more – than beer. It’s about multiculturalism and tackling racism as...
Is Keykeg the way to open up the world of real cider and perry?
I recently spent a weekend at FyneFest, the annual festival run by lauded Scottish brewery Fyne Ales. The event has been running since 2010 and, since...
Welsh rarebit with Manchester Brown Ale
Imagine if you will that you are a landed Edwardian and you are close to finishing your 10-course dinner. The hors d’ouevres, soup, fish, roasted join...
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