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Following the initial nomination of Brew By Numbers Saison 01|08 Wai-iti & Lemon yesterday, the annual look back at the most memorable new British beers continues. There are five other places to fill in the list, and for the next choice, we head off on the long south-westerly journey from London to Cornwall. There, on ... The post Best New ...

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“If you can’t brew on this scale, you really shouldn’t be brewing on a bigger plant, to be honest,” says Craig Laurie, when I ask him if the modern trend towards nano-brewing is an easier way for prospective brewers to get their beers out than the (previously traditional) contract brewing route. Craig is just about ... T ...

So what exactly qualifies as R&D? And how can breweries prove this? “Broadly speaking,” Kian continued, “the project must be seeking to make an advance in science or technology. The advance must be novel to the industry as a whole, i.e. not just novel for the company. The project must also be seeking to resolve ... The pos ...

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The fantastic Craw Inn, Auchencrow, with pump clips from the ages (including cask ale from BrewDog; Hype and The Physics, top left) The post First In – Waiting for the pub to open appeared first on The BeerCast.

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Obviously, being the guy that got BrewDog’s second-ever bar done for failing a test purchase wouldn’t have looked good on my two-week C.V., and thankfully everyone I had the pleasure of serving looked the right side of 25, so I needn’t have worried. I think the only snafu I made was mixing up someone’s pizza ... The post ...

This most difficult and complex issue in the pub industry probably hasn't got any easier after a landmark victory in parliament yesterday for anti-PubCo campaigners. But whatever your views, no one except the campaigners has come out of this looking good. I've not written much about the long-running battle between the biggest pub companies ...

Look, I don't like to ask, really I don't. It's demeaning. But if I didn't ask, you wouldn't know about it, so I have to. There's a thing called the UK Blog Awards. I decided to enter it this year for the first time. I've been blogging about beer and pubs, and more lately cider, since 2006, which makes me the second or third oldest beer ...