Buying beer online can be your gateway to exciting brews all over the globe. So we've got Melissa Cole to put together a guide to not only some of the most recommended websites in the UK and US but how to make sure that you stay safe when you're shopping on the internet.
No matter how internet savvy we think we all are these days there’s always the danger that the scammers are one step ahead. I mean, granted none of us are likely to fall for the emails that tell us we’ve won national or state lottery – or that we’ve got a long-lost relative from a far-off continent ...
Beer Analysis
from Issue 15 published on 01/12/2007
Getting ‘hands on’ with London’s youngest brewer, sounds like it should be fun, right? Our intrepid reporter Melissa Cole thought so too, right up until her first job of the morning was shifting 25 kilo bags of grain around the place
When a good-looking bloke says: “Melissa, why don’t you spend a day brewing with me?” It’s not an offer I have to think about for more than a nanosecond – but a bit of warning about how much hard work it is to brew in a five barrel brewpub (with limited space and technology) would have been nice!
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Spotlight
from Issue 14 published on 04/10/2007
Melissa Cole speaks to Paul Van de Walle, head brewer at the Leuven brewery and the man behind Stella Artois
STELLA JOB
Stella may have its many critics but offering consistency of product around the world is no mean feat, which is where brewmaster Paul Van de Walle earns his pay.
More of a chemist than a cook, Van de Walle has a single-minded determination to get Stella out there to the masses and in ti...
Spotlight
from Issue 14 published on 04/10/2007
The two Lowlander cafés in London are a Belgian and Dutch beer delight. We sent Melissa Cole to investigate
We hear a lot about the European café culture and how in Britain, thanks to flexible licensing, we will be seeing more of it.
But there’s one independent enterprise that has been bringing London beer lovers the delights of this relaxed approach to life for many years, and it’s called Lowlander.
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Spotlight
from Issue 10 published on 26/01/2007
