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Innovation Isn't Something You Can Buy for Three Hundred Quid
Beer innovation is largely a marketing term for selling smaller brewers’ ideas more cheaply. Real innovation costs miles and years, travel, unlearning, and the drinkers in your own town who hand you money across a bar.
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The Day High Strength Beer Duty Changed My Job
Today, in offices much like ours, Louise and Colin, people like Zak and his team, Nigel and Ian, Andreas or Steve, Bart Verhaege, then Nick and Duff, then Martin and Tom, will all have dramatic tiered changes to make to their offering.Oddly, I guess there might be conversations in offices in Denm. .
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A Guide to Beer in Ukraine
For starters I really wanted to call this A Short History of Beers in Ukrainian, really, I did. So perhaps this is a short guide to beer in Ukraine instead. It is a rough outline: a bunch of notes, rubbish information, and an indication of the lengths I go to for beer. [Image: UkraineMap] I h...
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What is Craft Beer?
Craft beer is not defined by the size of your stainless, your hop bill or your postcode. It is defined by the mindset of the brewer, and beer is about people.
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Looking for IPA in Burton, and Finding It Sixty Miles Away
You go to Cologne for Kolsch and Brussels for lambic. So we drove to Burton for IPA, deliberately without a PR contact, to see what an ordinary beer tourist could actually find. The answer was sobering.
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Gardening With Mr Floyd, and a Brewer's Dinner in Munster, Indiana
I drove to an industrial park in Indiana expecting to look at a brewery from the outside. I ended up talking about gardening with the man whose name is on the door, and staying for dinner.
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Finding Good Beer in an Airport in Utah
I had a long layover in Salt Lake City and low expectations. The brewpub on the Delta concourse and a barman called Casey corrected both.
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The Map Room, Chicago: The Toronado With Windows
West Lakeview Liquors, a pizza place with an IPA worth the trip, and a bar in Chicago with a bottle list I gave up counting. Also my first pint of Gumballhead, and a cask beer that was nothing like a mild.
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Gatwick to Cincinnati to Chicago: The Start of an Insane Beer Trip
Planned at half past three in the morning, two hours before the flight. Six airports, three states and a rental car mix-up that worked out rather well.
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