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Why do trumpets taste like hops?

22nd April 2014 | Uncategorised

Five years ago I read an article about a study at Heriot Watt university that had found different styles of music could ‘improve’ the...

8th April 2014 | Uncategorised

In February I was in Chicago for the US Cider Conference. It was massively exciting, because craft cider in America is where craft beer...

3rd April 2014 | Uncategorised

Food of Los Dioses Around the corner from La Cerveteca in Barcelona’s Bari Gotic I stumble (literally) upon La Socarenna, a small bar built...

31st March 2014 | Uncategorised

I can’t believe it’s a decade since my first visit to Barcelona, as part of the research for my second book, Three Sheets to...

17th March 2014 | Uncategorised

It really is good for you. Ah, St Patrick’s Day: guaranteed to drive some angsty beer geeks to ask why everyone insists on drinking...

11th March 2014 | Uncategorised

Guys from Five Points took this at the previous, shorter Masterclass. There’s something deeply wrong when you have to set the alarm on a...

4th March 2014 | Uncategorised

Burger condiments The idea, apparently, was “to get as much beer in a burger as we possibly could.” “Ah, well, I like to chuck...

28th February 2014 | Uncategorised

I wrote a few years ago that Thornbridge and BrewDog were like the Beatles and the Stones: rivals, both revolutionary, one more user friendly...

22nd February 2014 | Uncategorised

The thing I heard said by people most often at yesterday’s trade session for the above event: “This is so much better than last...