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Beer, cider and Mary Berry... I have a confession to make: I am one of the few people in the United Kingdom who did not watch the final of Great British Bake Off on Wednesday night. In fact I've never watched the programme. It doesn't interest me. The smirky gags about 'soggy bottoms' are tired, and I've started getting a twitch whenever I ...

This week, the unremitting beery calendar flicks around to one of the true highlights of the year: The Independent Manchester Beer Convention (or IMBC, IndyMan, IndyManBeerCon, depending on how you want to pad out a paragraph). 2014 will be the third running of the annual pool party, and having been to the previous two, I’m ... The post I ...

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The St John’s Church on Victoria Street, with the door of Finnegan’s Wake lower left, Liquid Rooms lower right This flurry of paperwork to the City Chambers raises a number of questions, the most obvious of which being; does Edinburgh need more pubs, and, if so, does it need more Wetherspoons? This is an interesting ... The post JD ...

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Having recently tied the knot – which you’re probably sick of hearing about if you followed the genesis of my wedding beer the other month – one of the first things we added to the wedding list was wine glasses. It’s probably the single most gifted item for newlyweds, alongside functional crockery and towels. If ... The ...

Every year I'm paid to compile the Cask Report on behalf of Cask Matters - a loose affiliation of brewers and industry bodies including SIBA, CAMRA, Cask Marque and most of the leading regional and family brewers in the UK. The eighth report launches today to coincide with the start of Cask Ale Week. Success makes people nervous, ...

If you cast your minds back to the spring, you may vaguely remember that in May I wrote a blog post about a certain Scottish brewery. I’d been passed the results of laboratory analysis of two beers from Brewmeister, the (at the time) ‘supersonic scientists delivering you to drunksville’. The abv of their two most ... The post ...

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