1) Let’s get this out of the way right at the start. I hate the Foo Fighters. I’m not indifferent to them. I don’t dislike them. I hate them. There was a […]
Five Things About … Young Henrys Foo Town
Five Things About .. Wildflower Patronus
1) Beer is funny sometimes. With pretty much anything else you could eat or drink, describing it as tasting a bit like a horse-blanket – or even a leather saddle after a […]
Five Things About … Sunshine Brewery’s Mudjimba Mid-Ish and Blue Sky IPA
1) Being a parent means that when you’re on holidays and want to stop in at a brewery, the kid has to come along. Which, I have to say, is pretty boring […]
Five Things About … Stone & Wood’s The Gatherer 2018
1) When you try a tasty beer, is it wrong to keep it all to yourself and not share it? You see, sometimes when I taste a nice beer I hand the […]
Five Things About … Philter Lager
1) In this whacky, crazy world of craft beer, lagers pretty much get kicked to the curb. Not enough hops, you see. Not enough unusual or odd ingredients, you see. Not enough […]
Five Things About … Emerson’s Bookbinder
1) Most of the time you see a movie where a character orders a beer in a bar they ask for – and get – a beer that doesn’t really exist. That’s […]
Five Things About … James Squire’s 2018 Hop Father
1) Last month I published a biography of convict brewer James Squire. Well I actually called it THE biography of James Squire; I figured that, seeing as how this was the only […]
Five Things About … Bridge Road’s Magical Christmas Unicorn
1) Yeah, I know Christmas is well and truly over. The fairy lights have been unplugged. The giant blow-up Santas are deflated. The decorations are packed away. The tree has been chopped […]
Five Things About … Corona
1) In my younger days – by which I mean about three or four years ago – I was less of a beer geek and more of a beer snob. That dick […]
Five Things About … Fixation’s Obsession Session IPA
1) I’m of two minds when it comes to Fixation Brewing’s IPA-only strategy. On the one hand, the IPA and its seemingly endless permutations are so hot right now, as the kids […]
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