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Beer has become a topic of conversation at the dinner table. And, says Dominic Roskrow, that’s very good news
Writing about rock music, someone once said, is a bit like dancing to architecture. The same could be said with regard to talking about beer.
There have always been a group of people who seem to talk...
By Dominic Roskrow in the section
From the Editor
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What happens when you have a Mass at the mash-tun?
The priest had a glint in his eye, and was warming to his theme: the role of St Nicholas as the patron saint of bakers, brewers and distillers.
My German does not stretch much beyond Maischpfanne, La...
By Michael Jackson in the section
The Beer Hunter
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A selection of letters and postings from our forum www.beers-of-the-world.com
Letters
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I got my free copy via the Fullers club, and was very impressed – it’s just the kind of magazine I want. So I’ve sent in my form for a two year sub.
However I couldn’t resist se...
By in the section
The Beer Forum
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Should it be a case of youth over experience, or is older better? Zak Avery considers the age of beer
Quote 1: “Fresh beer tastes better”
Quote 2: “This will improve and last for at least 25 years”
These are two quotes from opposite ends of the beer-production spectrum. The first quote comes from A...
By Zak Avery in the section
Beer Analysis
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Ben McFarland visits the Sierra Nevada brewery in California and explains why its Chco time
Chico is a town that rarely gets its knickers in a twist. To say Chico is laid back is like saying San Francisco, a four hour drive away, is a little hilly and just a bit camp.
A small yet sprawling ...
By Ben McFarland in the section
International Brewery
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Wadworth’s has a highly renowned ale. But as Adrian Tierney-Jones discovers, there’s much to the brewery beside
If you want brewing tradition, then Wadworth has it by the dray load. The brewery has been a fixture of the Wiltshire market town of Devizes since the 1880s, when Henry Wadworth commissioned its gorge...
By Adrian Tierney-Jones in the section
British Breweries
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In the latest in our series Michael Jackson investigates the role of water and how important a quality sourse is to the overall taste of beer
Water has a significant influence on the flavour and body of beer, though not as great as the contribution made by malted barley and other grains; by hops; and by the brewer himself.
If barley took u...
By Michael Jackson in the section
Beer Production
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Andrew Catchpole looks at the brewers of Hampshire, Sussex and Kent
Evidence of brewing among the pastoral landscapes and rolling downs of South East England stretches back into the Middle Ages and beyond.
Even today a visit to Kent and parts of Sussex reveals a very...
By Andrew Catchpole in the section
Regional Focus
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Refresh UK has done exactly what it says on the tin – taken a motley crew of brands and kickstarted them back to life. Ben McFarland reports
Refresh UK is to building beer brands what Red Adair is to fire fighting and the Priory is to famous folk addicted to naughty drugs, excessive drink and hanky-panky.
It’s a brands and brewing orphana...
By Ben McFarland in the section
Beer Focus
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There’s nothing wrong with a quality lager as an accompaniment to Indian food, but as Ben McFarland reports, there are other options
Diners in the United Kingdom and a host of other countries have been in the throes of a love affair with the food and flavours of the Indian sub-continent ever since colonial pen-pushers and members o...
By Ben McFarland in the section
Beer and Food
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Yorkshires unofficial capital city is the place for historic pubs, great nightlife and world class beer. Richard Jones went for a stroll
It may be home to hundreds of thousands of their ilk, but Leeds refuses to conform to clichés about Yorkshiremen.
Whereas 20 or 30 years ago you might have found its streets (cobbled, inevitably) fil...
By Richard Jones in the section
Beer Journeys
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John Smith and his family helped put Tadcaster on the beer map. Lewis Eckett reports
Two great pointers as to whether you’re winning the fame game.
One: do you have a first name that everyone associates with just you – such as Elvis, Madonna, Arnie or Cher?
Two: do you share a very ...
By Lewis Eckett in the section
Beer Legends
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Will beers stored in casks previously used to mature another drink become increasingly popular, or is it just a fad? Adrian Tierney Jones reports
In the summer of 2003, former Caledonian Brewery head brewer Dougal Sharp unveiled Innis & Gunn’s Woodaged Beer.
This was a stunningly flavoured 6.6% beer that had spent the first 37 days of its post...
By Andrew Tierney-Jones in the section
Beer Trends
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Cotswold is a microbrewery with a difference – it makes lager. Nigel Huddlestone reports
Richard Keene takes a call from a pub in the Oxfordshire village of Churchill. It has run out of the beer he brews as a cottage industry microbrewer in a rented barn.
Keene bundles a barrel into the ...
By Nigel Huddleston in the section
Spotlight
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Juliette Banner is the partner of world-music loving disc jockey Andy Kershaw, and her cosmopolitan choice of food and drink suggests so. Andrew Burnyeat reports
It’s grim up north London, as the brief walk from Highgate tube to Banner’s restaurant reveals.
Looking at the big cars behind the prohibitive iron gates protecting even bigger houses and flats, you ...
By Andrew Burnyeat in the section
Spotlight
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The Celtic Beer Festival is odd in that it is held in winter. But as Adrian Tierney Jones reports, it’s a great place to taste something different
December in Cornwall and the tourists have gone. The beaches are empty apart from the most dedicated surfers, while the pubs returned back to the quiet embrace of the locals.
Not the best time of the...
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Spotlight
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Many of us have experienced Beer Goggles – the source of many regrets after a heavy night out.
But now science can explain how it happens, from the first glimpses across the bar, to the bitter end.
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By Dominic Roskrow in the section
Beer Matters
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Despite fears that the United Kingdom would become engulfed by 24-hour binge drinking, new licensing laws came into being recently – with very little trouble.
The British media predicted city streets...
By Dominic Roskrow in the section
Beer Matters
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Want to play a beer game while enjoying a glass or two? Here are some of the best ones on line
BEER GOLF
www.widmer.com/games/go lf.html
This is a well-designed game that pops up quite a lot on the internet, but brewers Widmer have given it a welcome beer slant. The addictive game features ...
By Dominic Roskrow in the section
Beer Matters
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www.samueladams.com
For the discerning beer lover then a quick visit here is a must, particularly lovers of this great American beer.
In the downloads section, the first thing of real interest is t...
By Dominic Roskrow in the section
Beer Matters
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Well fancy that – we’ve been enjoying a high profile since we launched a few months back but it seeems that even the most serious establishment media are catching on.
We were chosen as the London Dai...
By Dominic Roskrow in the section
Beer Matters
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An international alliance is creating a world class wheat beer in the Ukraine. Roger Protz visited the brewery that is making waves across the globe
The Ukraine has gone from orange to white in a year.
First, the Orange Revolution swept the old regime from power and ushered in a pro-Western government. Now a privatised brewing industry is widenin...
By Roger Protz in the section
International Brewery
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Playing cards have long been used to promote beer. And now, says Andrew Burnyeat, they are becoming collectors’ items
Adolf Hitler and scantily-clad women are hardly the words you’d expect to read at the start of an article about brewery playing cards.
Yet Hitler is depicted in a card issued during World War Two wit...
By in the section
Collecting Beer
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Alastair Gilmour takes his place in one of the most unusual pub visits he has ever undertaken
Who could turn down the invitation to a pub crawl, a bit of banter and a good time?
It’s a suggestion loaded with possibilities which the Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour delivers in entertaining fashion ...
By Alastair Gilmour in the section
Beer Journeys
