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Is the boom in craft brewing actually narrowing the choice of different beer styles we have? Last week I was invited to Germany to attend the magnificent Bar Convent Berlin, a huge trade show featuring a mind-boggling array of drinks producers across the board and from across the world, plus talks, semina ...

The simple pleasures of tramping round an orchard. Autumn is a season of two halves. Both are definitely autumn, but one is summer's older sibling, looking back fondly, while the other is winter's harbinger. The change comes almost overnight some time late in October, just before the clocks go back. By this time we've all been ...

Part two of my Year of Writing Dangerously...* Today my seventh book, The Apple Orchard, hits the shelves (hopefully. Please God let it hit at least some shelves.) When I wrote World's Best Cider in 2013 with Bill, that book required the short, sharp, snappy sections typical of the guide book: 60 words on a cider here, 500 words on th ...

It is because of Cantillon. The ultimate in brewery tourism, Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels is everything a brewery should be – one visit and you’ll remember it for the rest of your life – even more so if it’s the first time you tried Lambic. Cantillon is easy to get to, being a fairly short ... The post Smoke, mirrors ...

Whereas the upcoming future is on recapturing the domestic market, for Keith Brewery the current focus is somewhere else indeed – and this is the other side of that coin of their move away from Brewmeister. The content on the old Brewmeister web page no longer exists, but the url re-directs to the homepage for ... The post Keith Brewery & ...

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A tantalising new scrap of evidence about the bard's drinking habits has emerged. The Tabard Inn, Borough High Street When I wrote Shakespeare's Local I upset some readers because I failed to prove the contention in the title of the book - that William Shakespeare drank in the George Inn in Borough High Street. At a time when most people ...

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