Are You Tasting the Pith?

Sometimes, you look at a business and just say to yourself "what the hell are they thinking?". For example, the Orkney Islands ...

Hi Zak, Please find enclosed herein a bottle of Bear Republic "Racer 5" IPA. Many months ago, after I posted on the Wine Pages for...

Last night's IPA day event at Mr Foleys in Leeds was a lot of fun. Beer, people, blather, and the chance for a few people to be utterly ...

Lucky bastard Rob from Hopzine.com is in Rome, from where he posts this little video snippet . It's a great little snippet in lots of w...

Me and the Mrs used to be fans of tattoos. We were really close to getting massive, full-sleeve ones done, and then, like a lot of people, w...

I've got an irrational hatred of wood-aged beers. Well, that's not quite true - my dislike is based on having tried dozens of wood-a...

Look, I'll be totally honest here, the food in this video is what Alfred Hitchcock would have referred to as " the MacGuffin "...

Because I'm such a frightful ponce, I like to try out food and beer combinations. I like to think that sometimes, you can get something ...

Quite some time ago now, those nice folk at Bitter End Brewing Co. sent me a mixed case of bottled beers, and a glass from which to drink th...

This is just a follow-up to the previous post, after a quick phone conversation with John Keeling, Fuller's head brewer, where he very k...

At the start of February, I spent an action-packed couple of days in London. In the space of 24 hours, I attended a committee meeting for th...

One of the things that I love about the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) is the stunning array of foreign beers on offer there, on the Bie...

Oh. My. God. I've just had one of those peak beer experiences that you read about and think "Oh piss off, that never happened"...

How great a brewery are Rooster's ? Let me count the ways. Actually, let's not, let's just mention a few of them. I don't kn...

IPA, IPA, IPA. Bloody IPA. What does it mean? As Stuart Howe, brewer at Sharp's points out : "IPA, the most meaningless set of init...