I wasn’t going to post anything about Good Beer Week until I got back home. For two reasons – I’d be too busy drinking beer to write about it and my fat […]
Good Beer Week – a snapshot
X is for xanthohumol
So X is another one of those letters where there isn’t a lot going on in the Oxford Companion to Beer. There are just three entries – and one of them (xerogel) […]
Friday drinks – Franziskaner Dunkel
I’m a fan of hefeweizens so it would stand to reason that I’d also dig a dunkel. That’s because, essentially a dunkel is just a dark hefeweizen – the word ‘‘dunkel’’ means […]
W is for Westvleteren
In the world of the beer geek a beer from Westvleteren is the Holy Grail. Which is not hard to understand why when you look at the hoops those monks make people […]
V is for Vapeur Brewery
The Vapeur Brewery in the town of Pipaix, Belgium, isn’t in the Oxford Companion to Beer because they needed something to put in the V section. It actually is worthy of note. […]
The Melbourne Beer Mission
A few days ago my wife asked me what I was planning to do while I was in Melbourne. So I ran her through my rather detailed plans. At the end she […]
It’s YouTubesday!
Charlie Bamforth is back again, this time explaining how important a good head is to a beer.
U is for Umami
The older I get the more things I learned at school become superceded. For instance, when I was a kid, Pluto was a planet but now, when my five-year-old daughter recites the […]
Good Beer Week is Über-riffic
So I’d figured I had everything planned to a tee for my few days at Good Beer Week. I’d even dedicated hours to working out the route I would take on my […]
T is for Trappist breweries
The thing I find most fascinating about Trappist breweries that there is a “Trappist police” of sorts who closely monitor who is calling themselves that. If you look at a bottle from […]
BEER IS YOUR FRIEND 