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The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke: the painting behind the beer
Axe raised, the fairy woodsman is frozen in time at the centre of Richard Dadd’s masterpiece. His master stroke would be a single blow to split open a chestnut to be used as a carriage for the fairy...
View ArticleTwitter list: Top 10 tweeters on craft beer
Being relatively new to the wonderful world of craft beer, I’ve been scouting around for UK based craft beer lovers and experts to follow on Twitter. Here’s a un-scientific list of the ten I’ve found...
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A beer to remember
One of the oldest beverages humans produced, beer has been credited with enabling the advance of human civilisation. It is a beverage imbued with history, each pint the sum total of the thousands of...
View ArticleHow to pair food & beer
Food. Beer. Two wonderful things. Not oft paired as well as they might be, in fact it is very rare that as much thought is given to pairing beer with food as there is to pairing wine with food. I think...
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Beer & food: Babaganush & homemade flat bread recipe
I know Tom Hunt from my work in the world of sustainability; he has long campaigned for less good food to be thrown away. He’s an acclaimed eco-chef and was involved with the formative years of River...
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Behind the scenes filming at the Florence Brewery
Making the film for our first crowdfunded beer with Peter Haydon and the vastly talented team from Nice & Serious was a delight. The finished product is here. But given the beautiful light and...
View ArticleWhat is wheat beer anyway?
An exerpt from Jane Peyton’s Beer O’ Clock. (You can buy a signed copy here). It is a great introduction to the wonderful world of beer from what to drink and how, to pairing beer and food. Wheat Beer...
View ArticleWhat is an IPA anyway?
The third in our series of exerpts from Jane Peyton’s Beer O’ Clock. (You can buy a signed copy here). Find out about brown ale and wheat beers, or read on for more on India Pale Ales....
View ArticleWhat is stout anyway?
Another exerpt from Jane Peyton’s Beer O’ Clock. (You can buy a signed copy here). It is a great introduction to the wonderful world of beer from what to drink and how, to pairing beer and food. We’ve...
View ArticleTwitter list: 10 more top craft beer tweeters to follow
A couple of weeks back we published an un-official top 10 list of interesting craft beer tweeters. We always intended it to be a list of 20, and have finally got round to synthesising the next 10. So...
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