Of all the Riverside beers I hereby declare the 77 IPA as my favourite. Which is actually a little strange because I’m not normally a great fan of beers with a big […]
A good elephant beer
Those crazy Germans
The stereotype of Germans is that they are a very strict, unfunny, quirk-free people. Even their language reflects it; whenever I hear someone speaking German it always sounds to me like the […]
The art of reviewing
In my two decades as a professional journalist, I’ve done a whole lot of reviewing. I’ve been a movie reviewer (one of my reviews ended up quoted on the back cover of […]
Six … well, five …. of the best
Because I write a weekly beer column for my newspaper from time to time, I’ll get a parcel arrive on my desk that contains beer. Yes, it is the best sort of […]
Bridge Road and old computer games
Back in the early 1980s, video games weren’t all that high-tech. For instance, having voices in video games was a big deal. Such a big deal that the Intellivision system released an […]
Damn, there goes my joke!
You’d have thought businesses would have learned by now that you don’t give your product a name that people can easily turn into something disparaging. But Damm Brewing from Spain evidently haven’t […]
The beer’s better than the advertising
Sometimes I just don’t get beer advertising. At all. Especially when it’s linked to a tasty beer that already sells itself. Take the guy the above video. He’s the ‘‘Beer Pilgrim’’ – […]
What The F..k Are You Waiting For? – Day Seven
My wife, bless her heart, loves my homebrew. Even goes so far as to say it’s better than the store-bought beer I bring home. Of course, she’s wrong about that – when […]
What The F..k Are You Waiting For? – Day Six
Yeah, I know this is an Aldi beer, brewed by it’s Storm Brewing Company name, but I was sort of obliged to include it. Why? Well because I recently acquired some shelves […]
What The F..k Are You Waiting For – Day Five
Just a few days ago I figured I’d undergone the lupulin threshold shift, where I’d acclimatised to highly hopped beer. I wondered if I’d ever find another beer that made me think, […]
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