Session #123: The Cyber Is Huge
For this edition of the international beer blogging jamboree Josh Weikert at Beer Simple asks us to consider whether the internet is hurting or helping craft beer. SOURCE: Dodgy animated GIFS website....
View ArticleBOOK EXTRACT: The Birth of the Gastropub, 1990
In the summer of 1991 The Times’s food critic, Jonathan Meades, took a break from visiting upmarket restaurants to investigate a new eatery that was generating a strange amount of buzz. He found it...
View ArticleArtyfacts from the Nyneties #6: Beers of ’94
SOURCE: JS Journal Online (PDF). Yesterday we stumbled upon a 2006 ‘top ten bottled British ales’ listicle by Pete Brown which we shared on Twitter, and which reminded us of something we found during...
View ArticleCrunching the Numbers on British Beer Styles
Rather than relying on interpretations of tasting notes and faulty memories, wouldn’t it be good to know for sure if and how British beer has changed in the past 20 years? Well, there is a way. In the...
View ArticleThe evolution of ‘pale’n’hoppy’ ale in the UK
This piece first appeared online at the now defunct All About Beer in 2015. It’s collected in our book Balmy Nectar but, as there’s been some chat lately about when and how the UK got the taste for...
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