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As anyone who has read Man Walks into a Pub will know, my entry into the world of beer was via Big Lager. I loved lager ads when I was growing up as a teenager.  Later, once I was helping make those ads, I was fascinated by the tribal loyalty people had to their favourite beer brands.  If you were a group of mates in your twenties, ...

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That’s not a problem, of course – maybe it’s more of a comment on the fractured – and let’s face it, beer fans – impenetrable mountain of beer styles that exist within our bubble. Those three letters are our modern crutch. A very lovely crutch, of course – as it turned out, that mystery IPA ... The post ...

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I wasn't going to write about this because I'm too busy and I don't have time. But I've read too many comments about it and I can't help myself. Just to be clear, I'm not an apologist for big, corporate brands, OK? And I'll fight with anyone who says I am. I think most people who love craft beer, good beer, real ale, interesting flavourfu ...

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I've managed to end up working on three new books, with three different publishers. Here's a story about the second of those three. I've already talked about my new beer book, What Are You Drinking? It's a crowdfunded project with a new type of publisher that I'm doing (a) because it's a really good model for both readers and authors and (b ...

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