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Writer of Craft Beer World, Beer & Food and The Best Beer in the WorldMark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.comBlogger650125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-13400174302082618672022-01-11T10:02:00.001+00:002022-01-11T10:02:16.204+00:00BeerDredge Beer Flavour Wheels<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/shop" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNkUU3LO-h07NpKd5tcnkzwe3CyOuCWmObVPPCAYGoizXvU1DewAEukmQyLw39KT1NiX29GmnJQPKeQUsAmdLjswsKk79HwhPO6T-kLhg5ImZywBgqeFZlUO_FjCL7ng1c2EHUgnBMAPLK4EBTU3epBIuTnLTnVCN4FW76G6flj_KXzzktYb0hznOWSA=w320-h320" title="BeerDredge Beer Flavour Wheel" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've developed a set of six <a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/shop" target="_blank">Beer Flavour Wheels</a> and they are available on my other site: <a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/" target="_blank">BeerDredge</a>.<br /><br />The <a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/product-page/beer-flavour-wheel" target="_blank">BeerDredge Beer Flavour Wheels</a> present a lexicon of the most common terms used to describe beer’s flavour and drinking characteristics, with the aim of improving beer communication, evaluation and education, whether in the brewery, the bar, or at home. </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/product-page/beer-flavour-wheel" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXxYyWKNpaA8a54vYE0cAG798kzc97OOUrvpGsFIGCey0Xd0jchflQtxftchtioJmrPLVZ5y3ucoNLJlnnE2yUziKpzAQqSx7YC6XsBNvlfgtZovgdmJbNWZMA7rpxbJ55GksrrBuh5J_Fy3fkwJ-VB3s45uHTkT53AZnvIWTyMZ7tZmoins__VIphlw=s320" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14));">These Beer Flavour Wheels present the foundation of beer’s language. They are collected from, and developed with, industry experts and include source-based foods and plants, technical terms and relevant chemical compounds, plus where those qualities might come from.<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br />The Beer Flavour Wheel sets are sold as a set of six, printed on three double-sided matt laminated cards. You get the following wheels:<br /><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14)); font-family: inherit;"> * Hop Flavour Wheel and Hop Varieties Wheel</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14)); font-family: inherit;"> * Malt Flavour Wheel and Malt Varieties Wheel</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14)); font-family: inherit;"> * Fermentation & Maturation Flavour Wheel and the overall Beer Flavour Wheel<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3sXjsKP3zHK595M573fPnyRDQpRSWcwxchG10O9D1QXh6floUjN73g-7IXcX1TzHO84_BTSESHqMT29qbLy6hGDXuRqqjRaWzl-mjSQ3LmBGZh9HG6-OEMoqt0UiCG0zxvRUsA5hFBruV2XT9mZLZOUv2lLBKt5BKDJDI2cbtT1iGJydqAD_31tVRFg=s3024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3sXjsKP3zHK595M573fPnyRDQpRSWcwxchG10O9D1QXh6floUjN73g-7IXcX1TzHO84_BTSESHqMT29qbLy6hGDXuRqqjRaWzl-mjSQ3LmBGZh9HG6-OEMoqt0UiCG0zxvRUsA5hFBruV2XT9mZLZOUv2lLBKt5BKDJDI2cbtT1iGJydqAD_31tVRFg=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14));">The beer lexicon gives words to form a language, but our individual perceptions transform those words into stories and meanings, and for that reason the wheels encourage the drinker to apply their own terms and their own qualifiers, for example, is the lemon aroma like lemon zest, lemon marmalade or lemon cordial. </span></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14));">The Beer Flavour Wheels are available at </span><a href="http://www.beerdredge.com" target="_blank">www.beerdredge.com</a><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14));">. They are available as a set of six and as a </span><a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/product-page/beerdredge-beer-flavour-wheel-poster" target="_blank">poster, in A1 and A2 and both British and American English</a><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14));">. Also on the site are books and </span><a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/product-page/golding-hop" target="_blank">beer t-shirts</a><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_14));">.</span></div></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/shop" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP3asz5YqRFS8XMZsh8V-ApLV28Ti6rz4nIao6Gs84okiW2Q6Ja5JRvDvnWEWL3zXJNSRDj9_KFjCkOv7qb7_L2qqAM2oMZ3NuMJC-xGO-cGW-OOBAgXUp74jboiYUKBWQNoEUgKkVJC4nerONsZZBAGXmhVbqlXrI-6c9TugTEBDbJVL6W2lEVe5_ZA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/product-page/beerdredge-beer-flavour-wheel-poster" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="2200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4iPcRMhHQO1g9AWKDKB5QqwHDEn3nSYtWHMIk10ZKSFCppcOknVNBGCc6zROgf9gs6p8UvS3ftd5ezeK_i6smY6kX09q1jcoiLt-CCAJtHlMUN94tMSYzpBdvIgFemLgXCulW1z0LgafIueE49UUAIxdlPwJFLQMskUoZxsY59uQU-pgCAoqDW5JlDQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p></div>Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-10031145765117869602019-08-05T16:03:00.001+01:002021-11-24T14:56:10.869+00:00BeerDredge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've got a new website! Anything new will now be posted to <a href="http://www.beerdredge.com/">www.beerdredge.com</a>. You can also read more about my books, my work and there's an updated blog over there. <br /><br />You can also see the new series of <a href="https://www.beerdredge.com/shop">Beer Flavour Wheels</a>!</div>
Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-78553276831911186842018-04-10T12:09:00.000+01:002018-04-10T12:50:29.092+01:00The Beer Bucket List<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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beer experiences. It’s the most important old breweries and the
industry-changing new brewers; it’s the greatest world beer bars and pubs; the
unmissable beer festivals; the most delicious destinations for beer and food;
the must-visit cities to go drinking; the unexpected, the unusual, the
unknown; the classics, the most famous, the best. And out of a global search it’s
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">This book – </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-Dredge/e/B00J251OUO/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">my fifth</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> – is out now and was inspired by thinking about where in the world I'd most like to drink a beer. And then by thinking about where I'd suggest others go to drink. The places that any beer lover really should go plus all those many oddities and idiosyncrasies that make beer – and travelling for beer – so great.<br /><br />I'm really excited by this book and I hope that anyone who loves beer and travelling to drink it will enjoy it. What's on your Beer Bucket List?<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The kegs have been emptied, the cash has been counted and
the Charity Beer Night raised £3,700 for <a href="http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/our-services/childrens/patients/welcome-to-evelina-london.aspx" target="_blank">Evelina Children’s Hospital</a>!</div>
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Thanks so much to everyone who came along, thanks to all the
breweries who supported the night with beer, thanks to Grill My Cheese for
their delicious food and thanks to The Kernel for allowing the event to happen
in their brewery. I had a brilliant night and I’m delighted with the money
raised – I’m also delighted with the atmosphere on the night and it was one of
the most fun beer events I’ve been involved in. It was also great to be behind
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Extra thanks need to go to The Alchemist. I emailed the
brewery with the crazy request that they might donate a couple of cases of
their wonderful beer to the night. I didn’t expect them to say yes but if you
don’t ask, you don’t get. Gloriously they did say yes and they sent beer to
London. I was going to pay for the shipping of the beer but the brewery
requested that instead of giving the money back to them, I donated it to the
cause, which is extra generous. About £500 of the total is thanks to them and their beer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now I just need to run the London marathon. There’s just over a
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I’m still collecting money for Evelina Children’s Hospital –
specifically for the intensive care unit. Every extra fiver really helps. <a href="http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/markdredge" target="_blank">You can sponsor me here. </a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-36280627250688346892016-04-01T10:21:00.001+01:002016-04-08T04:46:01.391+01:00Charity Beer Night: The Beer List<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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With a week to go before the charity beer event (<a href="https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/dredge-charity-beer-night/" target="_blank">tickets here</a>),
which I’m arranging to make money for <a href="http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/our-services/childrens/patients/welcome-to-evelina-london.aspx" target="_blank">Evelina Children’s Hospital</a> as part of my
<a href="http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/markdredge" target="_blank">London Marathon fundraising</a>, it’s time to reveal the beer list. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The Starting Line Breakfast Porter (6%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Kernel Table Beer (3.1%)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Kernel Dry Stout Bramling X (4.5%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pilsner Urquell (4.4%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Firestone Walker Pivo Pils (5.3%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Gipsy Hill Hepcat Session IPA (4.5%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Summer Wine Juice Facilitator (5%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Forest Road Work (5.6%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Vocation Life and Death IPA (6%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cloudwater DIPAv3 (8%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Boulevard Tank 7 (8.5%) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Chorlton Kohatu Brett Sour (5%)<br />Brew By Numbers Grisette Saphir (3.7%)<br />
SeaCider (4.6%) </div>
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Plus there will be bottles of Duvel and Duvel Tripel Hop
2016 – you can use a token on these to drink in or take out. There are also two other canned beers but these are super limited and not part of the token system that come with tickets - to get these requires an additional donation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some info on some of these beers... The Cloudwater
DIPA is hitting the taps a day ahead of its official release (if you want a hint on the cans then it's a Vermont-brewed beer that Cloudwater is surely inspired by...). The Juice
Facilitator is fresh out of the tanks and is going to be juuuicy. And the
Pilsner Urquell has been sent as fresh as possible from the brewery so it’ll be
just a few days old when we drink it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And what’s The Starting Line Breakfast Porter? I brewed a
beer with UBrew for the festival and I based the recipe on the breakfast that I
eat before I go for a long run: a strong coffee, a massive bowl of oat with
loads of raisins in it, some honey and a banana (the beer does contain actual
bananas). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We will have food on the night and <a href="http://grillmycheese.co.uk/" target="_blank">Grill My Cheese</a> are
making some amazing grilled cheese sandwiches outside the brewery (these are to
be paid for on the night and aren’t included in the ticket).<o:p></o:p></div>
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And it’ll be the kind-of launch of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Beer-lagers-delicious-recipes/dp/1909313890/" target="_blank">Cooking with Beer</a> as I’ll
have copies available for people to buy on the night – bring cash (£15 a copy!).<o:p></o:p></div>
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The event runs from 5pm-10pm. It’s strictly ticket only and
numbers are limited. There are still some tickets available and <a href="https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/dredge-charity-beer-night/" target="_blank">you can buy them here</a>. A ticket to the festival costs £20, all of which goes to the
charity. For your money you get five beers – most will be 2/3<sup>rd</sup>
pint, with those above 8% ABV poured shorter (1/3-1/2 pint). <o:p></o:p></div>
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The beer list may change in the next week but that’s the
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And if you want to support the charity and my marathon
fundraising (<a href="http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2013/04/for-good-cause.html" target="_blank">here’s why it’s for Evelina Children’s Hospital</a>), then here’s my
general fundraising page.<o:p></o:p></div>
Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-24092110159124973462016-02-25T16:30:00.001+00:002016-03-11T13:50:01.330+00:00UPDATED: Charity Beer Night - 8 April<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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This year I’m running the
London Marathon and raising money for<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #414344;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/our-services/childrens/patients/welcome-to-evelina-london.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Evelina Children's Hospital</span></a>. In March 2013, my week-old nephew Lucas was rushed
to Evelina where he spent a week in intensive care. The hospital saved his life
and now I’m raising money to say thank you (I raised money for the charity in
2013 when I ran the Paris Marathon – <a href="http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2013/04/for-good-cause.html" target="_blank">here’s a blog about that</a>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know people often ask
for charity donations and seldom does the donater get anything back for their
cash apart from the warmth of knowing they’re helping out a charity. I wanted
to organise something that actually gives people delicious things for their
kindness and their cash, so I’m fundraising in the best way that I know –
drinking beer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On <b>Friday 8 April</b>, at<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #414344;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.thekernelbrewery.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">The Kernel Brewery</span></a>, I’m organising a one-off beer night.
There’ll be a range of amazing beers on tap and all the money raised from <a href="https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/dredge-charity-beer-night" target="_blank">the tickets</a> (apart from the small booking fee) will go to charity – breweries are
donating the beer, The Kernel are offering their bar and the staff are working for free (if you’d like to help
pour beer on the night then let me know!). I’m working on the full beer list and
I’ll announce that nearer the time, but be assured that I want the best beer
line-up that I can get.<o:p></o:p><br />
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UPDATE: Here are confirmed breweries sending beer: The Kernel, Vocation, Cloudwater, Gipsy Hill, Chorlton, Firestone Walker, Boulevard, Duvel, UBrew (I'm brewing a one-off beer!) and SeaCider. More updates soon...!</div>
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<a href="https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/dredge-charity-beer-night" target="_blank">The ticket is £20</a> and that
gets you entry and five glasses of draft beer (they are 2/3-pint glasses). If
you want to drink more then all other beers are paid for with cash donations on
the night (just respect that this is a charity event and don’t take the piss!) There
are only 150 tickets, so get them quickly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There will be a limited
amount of cider but no wine or spirits. Grill My Cheese are cooking outside - these cost extra. Doors open at 5pm and
will close promptly at 10pm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s not all… As well
as this beer festival, I’m also doing a <b>London Beer Run</b>. On 2 April, a group of
beer-loving runners will be doing a 20-ish mile run around London, passing as
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If you would like to
donate but can't attend the event, then the<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #414344;"> </span></span><a href="http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/markdredge" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">fundraising page is here</span></a>, which is also the link for the London Beer Run fundraising.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Today Lucas is a wonderful,
crazy, hilarious little (almost) three-year-old and we have Evelina to thank
for that. I’m hoping to raise as much money as I can for a charity that means so much to me and my family.<o:p></o:p><br />
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It was at the exact moment that thousands of people dressed
in lederhosen and dirndl started singing a German drinking song in thick Portuguese
accents that I had to step back and really think about what was going on.</div>
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There I was, in the sultry south of Brazil, somewhere in the
middle of a series of trips which took me to five continents in two months all
in the search for delicious beer, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.<o:p></o:p><br />
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It wasn’t just the German outfits, it wasn’t the oom-pah
music with the samba beat, it wasn’t even that everyone was drinking
German-style lagers from large tankards while surrounded by dense, dark
subtropical forest. What really struck me was how this town was built to look like
a postcard illustration of a Bavarian fairytale. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The town is called Blumenau and is named after Dr Hermann
Blumenau, a well-connected German chemist who founded it in 1850, bringing with
him a small group of immigrants from his homeland. The town gradually grew over
the decades as more Germans arrived, joined by increasing numbers of
Brazilians.<br />
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A century later, in an attempt to draw in tourists, the town
decided to market its Germanness and play up to its past, eventually leading to
1984 and an ostensible Oktoberfest, which has since become an annual thing. Alongside
the party they built a replica German village, complete with a small castle
which is modelled on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelstadt#Historic_Town_Hall" target="_blank">Michelstadt town hall</a>, and lined their streets with shops
selling typical German clothes, food and beer glasses, all while encouraging
the citizens to embrace their German heritage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Today the people of Blumenau call their Oktoberfest ‘The
Party.’ The whole town builds up to it, the whole town gets excited about it,
they dress up for it and they drink steins of German-style beer when there. If
they didn’t do it annually, and they didn’t take it so seriously, you’d almost
think it was the most elaborate parody you’d ever seen – a trick for the
tourists. But it isn’t. And it’s a big deal: it’s literally put the town on the
map and draws in hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.<o:p></o:p><br />
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What I find fascinating as I stand in the sweaty heat is
that this event isn’t about the beer yet the beer is so integral to it (and
it’s good, too, with a bunch of local microbreweries pouring their take on
classic German styles, plus a few pale ales). Those swaying steins are shared
in the same way as the jokes and the laughs and that’s what makes this event –
and beer in general – so good. It brings people together, it brings smiles to
faces, and it can make a small Brazilian town famous for its Bavarian buildings
and fun beer festival. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was there searching for <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Beer-World-global-perfect/dp/1909313718/" target="_blank">the best beer in the world</a> and
while the ones I drank there might not have been the best-tasting, the
experience was unbeatable. And that’s what really matters – it’s the main
lesson I learnt on my global beer drinking adventure – because sharing drinks
and good times with people is the reason beer is the greatest drink in the
world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This is adapted from a
blogpost I wrote for <a href="http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Biblio/Blogs.aspx" target="_blank">Foyles</a> last year and I thought I’d share it here. In <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Beer-World-global-perfect/dp/1909313718/" target="_blank">TheBest Beer in the World</a> I tell the full story of Blumenau – how the town was
founded, how it grew, how Dr Blumenau struggled but ultimately succeeded, how
he built a brewery in his garden, and then how the Oktoberfest grew and what
it’s like today. It was one of the most remarkable trips I’ve been on and one
of my favourite stories in the book. Most of the images are from the official
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/oktoberfestblumenau" target="_blank">Oktoberfest Facebook page</a>. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I spent last
summer in the kitchen cooking with beer for my next book, the unambiguously
titled <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Beer-lagers-delicious-recipes/dp/1909313890/" target="_blank"><b>Cooking with Beer</b></a>. The first copies came back from the printers last
week and that inspired me to cook a favourite recipe from it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This beer pizza
puts black lager in the dough and in the tomato sauce, where it gives a
slightly sweet caramelised depth in the dough and some added richness in the
sauce – other good beer choices include hefeweizen or dunkelweizen plus a
smooth not-too-bitter porter or stout (I used Asahi Black Dry and that’s one
delicious dark lager!). I topped this one with loads of mozzarella, roasted
aubergine, mushroom, sun-dried tomato and basil, but the toppings are yours to
pile on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">500g Tipo
‘00’ flour or strong white bread flour (plus extra for dusting)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lager, at room temperature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and olive oil, stirring it together to get it activated. Leave for a few
minutes and then add the beer – ideally you’ll have poured this out in advance
to let it lose some of its fizz <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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surface and make a large well in the middle. Gradually pour the yeasty beer mix
into the well, using a fork to bring it together until you’re able to hold it
in your hands (add a little more water or beer if required). Knead it for a few
minutes then place in a large flour-dusted bowl. Put cling film over the bowl
and leave for 60-90 minutes in a warm place – it should roughly double in size.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the dough on the surface and knead it for a few minutes. Divide into four,
cover and leave for another 30 minutes in a warm place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as it’ll go – around 250C – and ideally use a pizza stone or pizza tray. Then
on a floured surface, roll out a dough ball until it’s about 10-12” across.
Place a layer of beer tomato sauce (see below) on top and then the rest of your
toppings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pretty easy,
this: take two tins of good chopped tomatoes and put them in a wide frying pan.
Add 4-5 whole cloves of garlic, a teaspoon each of salt, sugar and black
pepper, a couple of splashes of beer, a tablespoon of olive oil and a small
bunch of basil with the leaves torn. Simmer is all together, stirring
regularly, until it’s reduced and thick – this’ll take around 15 minutes.
Remove the garlic and set to one side and allow to cool (this can be done in
advance). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><b>Cooking with
Beer</b> is due to be released late March or early April. It has over 65 different
recipes all using beer in at least one way. It’s definitely the best-looking
book I’ve written – see these images below, which you can also see on <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Beer-lagers-delicious-recipes/dp/1909313890/" target="_blank">Amazon</a> –
and I’m excited for it to be on bookshelves soon.<br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">In 2013, sales
of Session IPA <a href="http://draftmag.com/stats-prove-it-america-is-still-obsessed-with-ipas/" target="_blank">grew <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">450%</span></a> in the US,
helping it jump from non-existent to a core range beer within two years. And
because the US is where many brewers look for the latest beer trends, we’re
seeing Session IPA brewed all around the world. But there’s a few things about
this hot-right-now IPA iteration which don’t work for me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">In today’s Americanized
beer parlance ‘Session’ means something relatively low in alcohol content (4%-5%
ABV) and it’s a basic simplification based on the British <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">idea</i> of a session ale – but this American context is not the same
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">British ‘session
ales’ are a broad group of beers (pales, milds, bitters) that you drink a few
of and still happily want more, where they’re best enjoyed in the pub with
friends. There’s a simplicity to these beers that belies their depth and
balance and makes their drinkability somehow <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">increase</i> as you go from pint to pint during your drinking session –
and that’s where the name comes from: it’s from the extended session of sipping
pints. Many Czech and German beers have a similar quality where they manage to get
their quenching malt-hop-alcohol balance just right to make you want more and
more. It's that crucial quality of wanting more, and not simply that they're low enough in alcohol that you <i>can</i> drink more, that is the difference. American session beer isn't like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tasted a Session IPA that’s sessionable in the British sense and they are
almost ironically unsessionable; too dry, too bitter, too intense in aroma and flavour
– they are unbalanced towards the IPA instead of the Session. And sure, the alcohol
content is often (but not always) low enough that we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">could</i> drink four or five or six, but they are so powerful in
flavour that we soon want to move onto something else: they are
session-strength but not sessionable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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where I get stuck. IPA owes its popularity to the fact that it’s a beer with an
impact that’s so different to what most people think of as ‘beer’: that huge
aroma, that gripping bitterness which makes you want another taste of the
sweeter, bulking malts, that heightened buzz of alcohol. There’s something
incredibly impressive about IPAs and they have a flavour profile that so many
drinkers have come to love. But that alcohol content is anti-socially high – a
few pints of 7% IPAs leaves us drunk and done. Beer is a social drink and the ‘session’
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br />Yet I do love
Session IPAs. I love the flavour and aroma of hops and I want to drink them. There
are also some great British Session IPAs and I do see their place between the
other hop-forward styles (more aromatic and bitter than pale ale, gentler than
IPA). I also like that we can get all the aroma and flavour of an IPA with less
of the alcohol, which suggests a shift towards a maturing of the collective
beer palate, one which is slowly looping around from the hollering extremities
of brewing towards beers of greater drinkability and balance (even if they
still come with a distinct US accent).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">In a way this is
already happening. Or at least the session trend is evolving with the
generically-named ‘Session Ale’. It’s a broad category but indicative of how
‘Session’ has thrust itself into beer’s vocabulary as the latest cool word,
where it really just means low-ish in alcohol. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">If you want hops
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> sessionability then we don’t look
to the US and instead we look to British brewing and the pale and hoppy session
beers (the history of which <a href="http://boakandbailey.com/" target="_blank">Boak and Bailey</a> have <a href="http://allaboutbeer.net/the-emergence-of-pale-n-hoppy-beers-in-the-uk/" target="_blank">written about here</a>) which are
at the tasty intersection between calm British sessionability and excitable
American impact. We’ve had beer like this for years now, inspired by the
qualities of an American IPA but brewed with the British drinking temperament
in mind. Many of these are really great beers, beers we can drink buckets of,
nailing that malt and hop balance plus the delicious addition of beautifully
fragrant hops, which is all enhanced by the subtle elegances of being pulled
from the cask. I would argue that these are becoming the flagship British craft
beer style today, indicative of where past and present meet in our pint
glasses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Session ale is
small beer making big gains in the American craft beer market and it’s having
an impact around the world, primarily with Session IPAs, which have become the
latest style which many brewers are attempting. That full-on flavour of hops
with the modest alcohol content is a great addition to the bar, just don’t
expect to have an actual session on Session IPA before needing to change up to
something else (probably a full IPA...).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Top image from <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/ct-food-0729-ranking-session-ipas-20150723-story.html" target="_blank">Chicago Tribune</a> who ranked 22 Session IPAs with <a href="http://www.stonebrewing.com/beer/year-round-releases/stone-go-ipa" target="_blank">Stone's Go To IPA</a> as number one. That's a great beer.</span></i></div>
Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-89855186422056391962016-01-07T14:10:00.000+00:002016-01-07T14:10:24.597+00:00Thoughts for British Beer in 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A decade ago, an Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman walked
into a pub... One said ‘I’ll have a bitter’, another said ‘I’ll have a stout,’
the other said ‘I’ll have a lager’. Those were the three default choices you
knew would be on tap, and while some drinkers had a brand preference (or, more
likely, brands they <i>wouldn’t</i> drink,
with the bitter drinker dismissing the keg taps and the lager guy not even
acknowledging the handpulls), many ordered by these categories – it’s just what
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Today, three people walk into a pub and it’s likely one of
them will ask for a pale ale or IPA without looking at what’s on – and that’s a
significant change. These styles are now part of the wider beer vocabulary and
part of new drinking habits and I think this is the one significant trend for
British beer in 2016.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hops have created a new interest in beer specifically with
the aroma and flavour of new world varieties – that citrus and tropical fruit burst
that so many people enjoy. These hops have been used for a long time but now knowledge
of them has become far more mainstream, as has their use, so I think pale ales,
IPAs and their off-shoots (pale and hoppy session beers, Session IPAs, hoppy
lagers) are going to dominate drinking for a long time because, for many people, these qualities are new and interesting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I do think the profiles of pale ales <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">et al</i> will evolve – less malt (but still balanced balance), more aroma and lower bitterness (see <a href="http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2015/11/tropical-fruit-juice-ipa-or-ipa-in-2015.html" target="_blank">Tropical Fruit Juice</a> for
more), a trend towards lower alcohol – these lower alcohol versions will, I
believe, start to see Best Bitters updated or phased out. It’s already
happening with the pale and hoppy session beers and many new breweries aren't having a traditional bitter in their range.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can’t see there being any other mainstream or widespread beer trend beyond
more hoppy beers. When you can walk down any British high street and can
drink these beers on tap in any Wetherspoon then that’s a big deal and I expect
we’ll see more of the larger groups following this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There are further things which I think will be of interest
in 2016…<br /></div>
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Cloudwater’s <a href="http://cloudwaterbrew.co/blog/dipa-v10" target="_blank">blog on their Double IPA</a>, featuring feedback,
comments and recipes from some top brewers, shows a new openness in brewing and
a smartness that’s refreshing to see. It’s great that techniques are being talked
about and brewers are sharing their thoughts and experiences. The better end of
British brewing is getting smarter and using different techniques to get better
brews, which will hopefully spread through the industry and raise the overall
quality (because there really is still too much poor quality beer being brewed).
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Likewise, <a href="http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/hill-farmstead-thread.1245/page-556#post-885917" target="_blank">this forum thread</a> from Ryan Witter at Hill
Farmstead is great: it’s open and honest and deals with technical issues in a
smart way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Related to everything I’ve said so far, I reckon 2016 will
be the year of the experimental pale ale. Not experimental as in weird or
brett-fermented or different colours or anything like that, but experimental in
terms of techniques, ingredients and processes. This may see more single-hopped
beers (and SMASH – single malt and single hop – beers), beers using more aroma
hops, hopefully more of the newer UK hop varieties, utilising hop oils, focusing on different malts (and getting a good depth
of malt without caramalt or chewy, heavy profiles), different yeasts and
fermentation profiles (hopefully cleaner ones). Basically, I think hoppy beers will get smarter and the
qualities will evolve.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There have been bursts of styles and processes in the last
few years, whether it’s big barrel-aged beers, saisons or fast sours, but they
aren’t trends as much as they’re trials – trials in the brewery (can we brew
it?) and trials in the market (will people drink it?). Those beers will hang
around but only as small-scale brews. The only one style that I can see
standing out in 2016 is Session IPA (it pretty much owned the second-half of
2015 as well) and that fits in the pale hoppy area I’ve mentioned above –
it’s just another way to brew a bright, well-hopped beer and it may well be the
beer that brewers use to try out different techniques. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We can already see this happening in the <a href="http://draftmag.com/10-fruit-ipas/" target="_blank">US</a> and the UK (Bloody Ell, High Wire Grapefruit), but
fruit looks to be an increasingly used additional ingredient in hoppy beers and also beyond. Fruit works
because it adds an extra level of accessibility to a beer because people know
what mango tastes like even if they’ve never had a saison before. It also helps
to add an extra juicy, fruity quality to a beer. You want that IPA to actually
taste like tangerines? Then add actual tangerines. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What about styles we won’t see? Black IPA might be done for.
Does anyone drink them anymore? The generic brown British bitter is going to be
replaced by paler, brighter, hoppier beers. I think we’ll see less saisons,
though the breweries who specialise in them will continue to make great
versions – I think it’ll stop being in a brewery’s limited edition rotation
because it’s not necessarily a widely popular beer. And there’ll be fewer sour
beers this year, though, like saisons, those who already do a great job of
making them will continue. The dry-hopped sour could increase in popularity –
look at Chorlton, Beavertown, Buxton and Siren for their success with this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">More Breweries Means Adjusted
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There are now a huge number of breweries, meaning pubs have a crazy amount of beers to pick from. This could signal breweries
limiting their range to nail the consistency instead of focusing on brewing
20-odd different beers in a year (though special beers remain important), where having some beers they sell repeatedly is crucial. Breweries will also possibly re-work their ranges to take in new styles and
swap out less-popular ones. Also, as the beers reach into the mainstream,
brewers have to be careful not to put off drinkers with weird or not-delicious
beers. Quality has to become more important than variety.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m interested to see if there’ll be more breweries who are
very niche and specific in what they do – someone like Chorlton specialising in
British sour beers. The opposite of this is the Cloudwater approach: a
seasonally-rotating range of beers which produces a wide range of styles to a
good quality – wheats, dark ales, lagers, IPAs, and more. I like this approach.
These little pockets of British brewing are interesting to follow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The ‘event’ releases – limited-run beers released on one day
to be drunk in a small range of places – will continue and increase. Cloudwater’s
next DIPA will be an event, likewise BrewDog’s Born To Die, and some of the
bigger, stronger stouts like Buxton’s Yellow Belly. These are for the hardcore
geek end of the market.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One key point is beer clarity, which also links to quality. I’m very happy with
unfiltered, hazy beer but there’s a point at which hazy becomes murky and
that’s not cool. I think – and hope – we’ve passed peak murk. Beavertown are one
of the more prominent (in terms of scale and popularity) brewers of unfiltered
beer and open a can of theirs today and it’s certainly not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">murky</i> – they are hazy, for sure, but they aren’t soupy and thick. A
year ago some of them were soupy, so this is already changing. Very cloudy beer
is not a good thing and it needs to disappear because it’s not a difficult
thing to sort out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Hard to ignore this given <a href="http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2015/12/camden-town-brewery-and-ab-inbev.html" target="_blank">Camden Town’s</a> sale and what’s
happening in the US. I’m sure there’ll be more changes in ownership. I expect
there are on-going discussions with breweries happening right now. Heineken
will be looking for a UK brewery that they can make national and then global.
They might take on Meantime if it’s true that ABI/SAB no longer want them – it
at least guarantees them a large London facility with lots of taps around the
capital. A more significant purchase would be someone like St Austell or Adnams
– regional breweries, already with big reach, great beers and pub estates. Or established
mid-sized breweries like Purity. What about Sam Smith – big in the US,
well-regarded for their beers, lots of pubs and potential to make them a bit
sexier? Smaller brewers might seem appealing, but they are also long-term
projects compared to an existing large brewery and very few breweries are
already at a significant-enough scale, reach and quality to be considered yet.<br />
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In many ways I think this could be a year of consolidation and maturation.
We’ve had an uncontrolled explosion of beer and it’s time to figure out what
the hell is happening in British brewing right now. There will be openings,
closings and changes. There’ll be new beers, updated recipes and beers being
retired. Breweries will be looking at what they make and trying to work out
what the best approach is for their future. And there’ll be lots to drink and
talk about as this whole craft beer thing really hops forward into the
mainstream.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In my <a href="http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2015/12/golden-pints-2015.html" target="_blank">Golden Pints</a> I struggled to pick out one
favourite non-British draft beer. So, <a href="http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2014/12/my-beers-of-2014.html" target="_blank">like I did in 2014</a>, I’m picking out a few
of the beers I enjoyed most from my travels this year (a few of which were drunk during the research of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Beer-World-global-perfect/dp/1909313718/" target="_blank">The Best Beer in the World</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In February I went on a road trip around the
Belgian Trappist breweries. Chunk and I stayed at Orval and got really drunk
within the monastery grounds, most of which we can blame on the ridiculously
delicious <a href="http://www.orval.be/en/8/Brewery" target="_blank">Orval Vert</a>. It’s draft Orval, lighter in alcohol, softer in texture,
richer in malt, more bitter, more aromatically hopped, and no brettanomyces. A
remarkable beer drunk in a remarkable place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I went to Birrificio Italiano in March specifically
to drink fresh <a href="http://www.tipopils.co.uk/" target="_blank">Tipopils</a>. It’s long been a favourite beer of mine but to have
glasses of bright gold beer with a billowing cloud-like foam was just
unbeatable – I love the beer’s bright hop aroma, the challenging dry bitterness
(the beer was inspired by Jever plus the addition of a dry hop) and the elegant
depth. It’s a special beer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My dad and I, whilst on a west coast US road
trip, drove a 400-mile round-trip to have lunch at <a href="http://www.firestonebeer.com/visit/paso-robles.php" target="_blank">Firestone Walker</a> (I drove
there and he got the unfortunate job of having to drive us back, while I passed
out in the passenger seat…). All the beers were excellent, especially Pivo Pils
(ostensibly a copy of Tipopils) but Hammersmith IPA was the one which really
stood out to me. A burstingly fresh IPA that I had in a flight to begin and
then ordered a pint (hence falling asleep on the journey home…). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the same road trip: the best thing I smelt in
beer this year – and probably any other year past or future – was the hop store
at Sierra Nevada. Imagine bales of green leafy hops stacked up like enormous lego
bricks all smelling like citrus and forests and tropical fruit. <a href="http://www.sierranevada.com/beer/year-round/pale-ale" target="_blank">Sierra Nevada Pale Ale</a> in the taproom, served at draft-strength and bottle-strength, was way
beyond my already-high expectations for it. I preferred the draft-strength for
the way the aroma was like a tiny distillation of their hop room. A beer
pilgrimage worth taking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Francisco. It’s underrated but really shouldn’t be for how all the beers have a
stunning elegance and clean, precise quality to them while still having huge
amounts of flavour. Mr Kite’s Pale Ale won gold at GABF a few weeks before I
visited and it’s the best English-style Pale Ale I’ve ever tasted. Toasty malts
give depth but no weight then the hops are peachy and grassy and subtly spicy
in the best of ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2015 would be brewed in Seoul? <a href="https://www.facebook.com/magpiebrewing" target="_blank">Magpie Brewing’s Porter</a> was a perfect glass of
beer. Smooth with chocolatey malts, dry yet a little sweet with toast and milky
caramel, a long finish but just the kind of fullness of flavour that marks a great
Porter from a good one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to find a unique beer culture and apart from small glasses of lager in izakayas
with grilled skewers to snack on, I didn’t see it – instead it’s very
US-inspired. <a href="http://bairdbeer.com/en/beer/tsunen_dtl07.html" target="_blank">Baird’s Suruga Bay DIPA</a> was the best thing I drank there. Loads of
tangy, citrusy, peachy hop aroma and an easy-going body of malt for a strong beer.
I did also really love icy-cold glasses of Asahi in the izakayas. Dry, clean,
bitterly refreshing and often poured with a whip of thick white foam.</span></div>
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cheap, easy to get to, with decent beer and something different. We narrowed it
down to Vilnius and I’m so glad it did. The farmhouse beers are unlike anything
I’ve drunk before (kind of chubby, estery, sometimes buttery, sometimes a
little farmy) and there’s a big variety to the brewing there that I really didn’t
expect. It wasn’t all deliciously refreshing but it was all fascinating to
drink – and it was a whole type of brewing and beer culture that I hadn’t heard
of before 2015.</span></div>
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year and it’s a perfect example of the new style of <a href="http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2015/11/tropical-fruit-juice-ipa-or-ipa-in-2015.html" target="_blank">tropical fruit juice</a> hoppy beers that are
coming out of the US. I really wish I could drink this beer – or something
similar – in the UK.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br /><br />A stein of <a href="http://www.augustinerkeller.de/the-beer/edelstoff-from-wooden-barrels/?L=1" target="_blank">Augustiner Edelstoff</a>, served from large wooden barrels, in the Munich
sun with Emma was a personal and beer highlight – it’s a favourite lager, so
smooth and soft, and I drank it in the sunny Augustiner beer garden. I had this
before and after running a half marathon in Tegernsee, south of Munich, where I
drank Tegernsee Hell, another glorious lager. And this seems like a pretty good picture to end the year with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At GBBF, surrounded by 700 other beers, I just wanted
glass after glass of Big Job. I find it difficult to pick any runner-ups as my
drinking has become almost exclusively kegged beer (mostly because of where I
drink rather than preference), though a couple stand out: Truman’s Yule Star
was a little surprise of a star anise-infused stout, while Hammerton’s
Pentonville and Five Points Pale Ale have been excellent when I’ve had them.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soft and fleshy and fruity and just really damn
good – it’s brilliant to see a new brewing coming out with beers this tasty
from the beginning. Runners-up include: Kernel Pale Ale Mosaic, BrewDog’s Milk
Stout and Candy Kaiser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It’s a perfect Double IPA that’s as good as any brewed in the world. I had it
on draft as well and that was also excellent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my fridge – I love it for its bright, juicy aroma and the clean, subtle body of
malt. BrewDog’s Black King Imp impressed massively and Vocation’s Pride and Joy
is a wonderful pale ale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the hardest category for me. I’ve drunk
in 10 countries this year and had some unforgettable experiences (which you can
read about in The Best Beer in the World…). Instead of picking one, I’ll take a
top 10 which deserves it’s own post, though the long list is Orval Vert,
Birrificio Italiano Tipopils (probably the best of the year), Firestone Walker
Hammersmith IPA (and Pivo Pils), Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Social’s Mr Kite’s
Pale Ale, Magpie Brewing’s Porter, Baird’s Suruga Bay DIPA, Lithuanian
Farmhouse Ale (all of them), Faction Pale Ale and Augustiner Edelstoff.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mind: Westvleteren Blond, Omer and Duvel. The Westvleteren Blond I drank at the
monastery café was so good that I (almost) didn’t care about drinking the 8 or
12; Omer is like drinking a delicious cloud; and Duvel is Duvel. The
Westvleteren Blond was the big delightful surprise of the bottled beer year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wrote these choices a week ago and I almost
rewrote this answer yesterday in reaction to BrewDog’s megalomaniacal and
sanctimonious response to Camden Town Brewery, et al. It was inevitable that
they’d remove the beer from their bars given the precedence they’ve already set
but there are good and bad ways to do things and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2015/dec/21/brewdog-bar-camden-town-brewery-hells-lager-off-craft-beer-menu-video" target="_blank">this </a>is a bad way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have been very impressive this year and I’ve drunk a lot of their beer, many of
them standing out as being especially memorable. To make Kandy Kaiser, a
straight-up Altbier, and nail the style isn’t something I expected from them
but it was excellent for being so traditional in taste. The Milk Stout is a
luscious treat that I know I’ll be drinking more of. Black King Imp is an
extraordinary stout and Born To Die just rocks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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almost got my brewery of the year. I always look for their next seasonal range
– I love their hoppy wheat beers and their great lagers and I have a whole box
of their beers to drink over Christmas. Brew By Numbers take third place for
being constantly very good and interesting – the Tripel is a favourite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Consistently excellent beers that you can pretty
much only drink in the brewpub. Mr Kite’s Pale Ale is the best English-style
pale ale I’ve ever had – worthy of the gold it won at GABF. I’ve been to the
brewery twice this year and wish I could drink there far more often. There’s
great IPA, subtle Saisons, really interesting barrel-aged beers, hopped-up
lagers, and more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beers from Cloudwater and Vocation it’s hard for me to order anything else
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brilliant beer. I also like how they use different artists each season – that’s
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I live 10 minutes up the road and have drunk there
more than anywhere else this year. I like that there’s always a really broad
range of interesting beers plus loads of bottles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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excellent beer (I think their Pils is especially good and the Pale Ales are
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everything else I ate in there was excellent. Add to that a great range of
beers and it’s the top food and beer spot I went to this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for the first time and it was amazing. Far better than I expected and something
everyone who loves beer should experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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preferring a few beer shops nearer to mine, but the M&S range is excellent.
Tesco is my go-to for my fridge-fillers: Duvel and Pilsner Urquell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at Camden Town Brewery. The main memory I have is of him studying for an exam,
books and notes spread across the table with a beer by his side. Clearly the
beer ended up being more important and a few years later Caps and Taps appeared a
short walk from the brewery. It’s a great shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Belgian beer and Beermerchants is where I go for that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’ll return to again and again and use as a first resource when I want to check
something or learn something new. I think it should be the new reference book
of choice for beer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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content on their blog. I also really like <a href="http://draftmag.com/author/joestange/" target="_blank">Joe Stange’s</a> regular stuff for DRAFT
and go to <a href="http://goodbeerhunting.com/" target="_blank">Good Beer Hunting</a> for the best long-form writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weave together the story of Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout. It’s the best
use of video storytelling that I’ve seen from a brewery. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Curtis knows what’s going on in beer,
he has his own approach and opinion to things, he gets excited about great beer
and pubs, but more important than these things is that he’s actually doing good
stuff offline – he’s not just
talking about beer to the empty spaces of the internet, he’s talking to real
people in real life. The tweets are all backed up with an excellent blog and
great images.</span></div>
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This one was the biggest surprise. Shock, even. <i>Shit</i>, I said aloud at my desk. <i>Wow</i>. <i>Fuck</i>.
Meantime was expected. Lagunitas was unexpected. Ballast Point was unprecedented
(one <i>billion</i> dollars…). Firestone
Walker was interesting. There have been others, too – 10 Barrel, Elysian, Golden
Road, Four Peaks – but as I don’t have a personal link to any of those
breweries, it was just news. <a href="http://www.camdentownbrewery.com/partnership-ab-inbev/" target="_blank">Camden Town Brewery becoming a ‘wholly owned subsidiary’ of AB InBev</a> is not <i>just news</i>
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I worked at Camden Town Brewery for two years and I had a
small role while they took big steps forward. One best mate had his wedding
reception there, another had his stag do there. I've met some great friends there and made some great memories there. Hells and IHL are the beers I drink more frequently than any
others. I still drink at the brewery regularly, where telling mates ‘I’ll
meet you at the brewery’ only means one place. Camden is not just a brewery to
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So a day after the announcement that they’ve sold to AB InBev,
I’m trying to figure out how I feel about it while also considering both sides
of the story in an attempt to dispel a lot of the misinformed nonsense that’s
being spoken online.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Camden has always been an ambitious brewery. In 2010, when London had fewer than 10 breweries, they opened with an automated 20HL
BrauKon kit focused on making great lager. That wasn’t the usual British
brewery opening. They grew steadily then rapidly – going from a few brews a
week to over 60,000HL annually in five years – gaining success beyond expectation. They
ran with that success, they grew into it, with it, and they made the most of it,
to the point where they couldn’t maintain the growth in their limiting railway
arch location. They’ve been looking for a new brewery and location for a long
time now and that move was always going to happen. The question was just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">how</i> it was going to happen.
Crowdfunding, we thought as of not very long ago, was the answer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Jasper Cuppaidge is the brewery – its heart and personality
– and as long as he’s running it then I don’t think the essential ethos of Camden will be
affected. His new bosses may have other ideas but I don’t think that Camden's outlook is
going to change just yet – certainly not in a way that the casual drinker will
notice – and there are many potential benefits for drinkers: investment in a
great new brewery to ensure they brew all their beers in London (some draft
beer is brewed in Belgium) and brew more of it; a new brewery frees up capacity
in the current arches for more limited edition beers (something I’ve always
wanted more of from Camden); more investment could mean more bars and will
certainly mean a significant tap room at the new brewery; they can now benefit
from the distribution networks that a global company has; they also benefit
from the global network of brewing intelligence and resources (AB InBev is not
some monolithic dumb-fuck talking chequebook, it employs some of the smartest minds
in the industry – while we’re here, we can’t use the abused, out-dated and
Atlantic-traveling collective memory of 1970s and 1980s America, where big beer
tried to crush small beer, to tell us what to think now. Beer has changed too
much for this to be relevant).<o:p></o:p></div>
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AB InBev are not going to take Hells and turn it into
Bud Light. It’s absurd for anyone to even think that. Global breweries aren’t
buying local ones to shut them down or cheapen their brands. They know that the perpetual
growth of local, small-scale beer is reducing Big Beer's market share and the way they
can still compete is to take ownership of successful smaller breweries. It’s
against their interest to do anything other than make the beer more available
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">better</i> (by funding new breweries,
by investing in better quality control and labs and everything else that helps
to give good, consistent beer). They’ve bought Camden Town because they value
(with a lot of zeros) what it’s achieved; they can’t devalue that by making
changes and instead they're going to increase the brewery's worth by turning it into a far bigger and better thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The big brewing companies also employ some of the best
technical brewers in the world. While they might not work in wellies and wet
overalls, they are smart beer makers who can produce very consistent beer
within tight parameters and to a very large scale, problem-solving situations
with considerable potential consequences. The reality in small-scale brewing is
that a lot of people are amateurs who have learnt on the job and there’s only
so far that ‘passion’ can take you towards producing quality beers. A major
issue facing the growth of beer is poor quality: how many beers have you had
this year which have diacetyl or unwanted esters or astringent bitterness or
too much yeast or any other brewing fault that could be eliminated. AB InBev
don’t brew bad beers – they might not make beers that you find delicious and
might not make beers as flavoursome as your favourite IPA, but they are not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bad tasting</i> in the same way that a lot
of craft beers are. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I do have concerns. It's likely going to be harder to make decisions and who knows what expectations
the new boss has. Big beer companies can be aggressive in their buying and
selling tactics, meaning a overall negative towards smaller breweries. And closer to home they've built a brilliant fan base in and around Camden and Kentish Town, even being partly responsible for the regeneration of the area they're in, and I hope that those drinkers don't look elsewhere for their local beers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I support Camden Town like I support my favourite football
team. I follow what they do with vested interest, I cheer them on, I drink the
new beers, I go to the events, I care about what happens to them and I have an
emotional connection to the beer and brewery. I am bummed and shocked to see
the change. This was always a potential thing that may happen, though I didn’t
expect it to happen yet. Especially not after the crowd-funding. And that’s
where a backlash will come: over 2,000 people invested in Camden Town (I
was one of them) and now they’ve done something different – that’s going to lose some
trust. But to continue the football analogy: when someone takes over your
club and brings the megabucks then it can be a good thing. Hopefully.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What’s frustrating is the reaction of others. People
assuming the beer will be cheapened, people knee-jerking ridiculous
ill-informed responses, people taking the beers off tap, all while BrewDog try
to mobilise their masses to buy into their fervent independence (how they
turned Camden Town’s news into a story about <i>them</i> is incredible). The
heart of Camden Town Brewery hasn’t changed, the beer hasn’t changed, the same
people still work hard every day to brew it and sell it, the difference now is
that the ownership has changed – we just have to hope that the new owners intend
to make it better.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Camden Town deserve congratulations for what they have done
in just five years. I’m
sure there were other options but the directors decided this was the best one
for the business – and I trust that the directors considered all the implications and do genuinely believe that this is the best thing for Camden Town Brewery right now and for the future. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There will be other breweries facing the same questions that
Camden Town have had to in the last few days and weeks (what’s the right thing
to do? Is there a right price for us? Who is right to work with?) and they will
come up with different responses. We will see the beer environment change in
the next few years. Some of it will challenge what we think and there will be
surprises, even shocks, and it’ll ultimately come down to individual drinkers
to make decisions about what beers they spend their money on.<br />
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I’ve had Camden Town beer as an ever-present in my fridge
for the last four years – right now there’s an IHL, a couple of Hells Raisers and
a Beer 2015 in there. The beers are going to stay in my fridge for as long as they taste great. </div>
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Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-82119872600335846592015-11-29T12:00:00.000+00:002015-11-29T12:00:00.426+00:00Curried Dunkelweizen Lamb Chops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />The smoking lamb
chops of Whitechapel curry houses are legendary because they are so delicious. And
as many of the better places are bring your own, you can eat them while
drinking delicious beers. Wanting to recreate that at home, I cooked these lamb
chops after brining them in Dunkelweizen and curry spices, where the brine
makes them incredibly tender (<a href="http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2015/11/smoked-porter-carne-asada-tacos.html" target="_blank">like I said here</a>, brining is a very good thing
when <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Beer-lagers-delicious-recipes/dp/1909313890/" target="_blank">Cooking with Beer</a>…) </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">– something
important when you don’t have a searing flame grill to cook them on and you
don’t want to chew on spicy boot soles. I used Dunkelweizen here because it has
a sweetly toasty malt depth and also some complementary spices for those used
on the lamb.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><u><br /><br />Serves 4</u></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">8 </span><a href="http://www.simplybeefandlamb.co.uk/quality-standard-mark" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" target="_blank">Quality Standard</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> lamb chops (</span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">at least</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 8... these are addictive things)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 bottle of
Dunkelweizen (dark lager or Saison also work)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sugar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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garlic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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curry powder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 teaspoon whole
coriander seeds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dry rub: 2
teaspoons of coriander seeds, 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, ½ teaspoon of fennel
seeds. Warm these in a dry pan then grind into a fine powder. Add ½ teaspoon
turmeric, ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper, a pinch of cinnamon and lots of salt and
black pepper. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />In a large
plastic container with a lid, make the brine by mixing the beer with the salt
and sugar and stirring until it’s all combined. Add the other ingredients and
then top up the container with cold water. Put the lid on and place in the
fridge for 8-24 hours. When ready to cook, remove from the brine and dry on
kitchen towel. Cover in the dry rub and leave for 1 hour. Grill or fry on a
high heat for 5-10 minutes (or until cooked to your liking).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">These are a
brilliant beer snack or starter and I wouldn’t bother serving them with
anything other than a cold glass of good beer. Dunkelweizen is clearly a good
match here, or go for a good Oatmeal Stout with a nice nutty, liquorice depth
as that’s great with the spices and meat char. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Look for the <a href="http://www.simplybeefandlamb.co.uk/quality-standard-mark" target="_blank">Quality Standard Mark</a> in independent butchers and selected
supermarkets to be sure that the beef or lamb is quality assured and
responsibly produced by people dedicated to producing great food.</span></i></div>
Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-35561182484131239822015-11-28T14:44:00.000+00:002015-11-28T14:49:27.793+00:00Smoked Porter Carne Asada Tacos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’m having a
thing with tacos right now. It started over the summer when I made some using
chicken brined in lager and lime, also using lager in the corn taco mix (this
is in book four, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Beer-lagers-delicious-recipes/dp/1909313890/" target="_blank">Cooking with Beer</a>, coming spring next year!). Then I had rauchbier
pulled pork in tacos at a barbecue (also in book four…). Delicious things. And
then I went to San Francisco and ate at five different taco places in three
days. Since being back I’ve eaten tacos five times in two weeks…<br />
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Mates were
coming over to drink all <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-U8BUrk2Vo/" target="_blank">the IPAs I brought back from California</a>, so I cooked
up a huge batch of Smoked Porter-brined flank steak. Brining, I have learnt, is
an incredible way to cook with beer, leaving beer-infused food that’s brilliantly
tender, where the sugar-salt combo does magic things to meat. I used <a href="http://www.beavertownbrewery.co.uk/Smog-Rocket" target="_blank">BeavertownSmog Rocket</a> in these tacos. And I serve them with traditional California
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b>Smoked Porter Carne Asada</b></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">1kg <a href="http://www.simplybeefandlamb.co.uk/quality-standard-mark" target="_blank">Quality Standard</a> beef flank steak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">2 cans of Smog
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">5 tablespoons of
salt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">5 tablespoons of
sugar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">1 whole chilli,
sliced in half<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">1 lime, sliced
in half<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">1 onion,
quartered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">5 cloves of
garlic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">1 teaspoon
habanero chilli flakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">In a large
plastic container with a lid, mix the beer, salt and sugar until combined. Add
the meat then the other ingredients. Top up with cold water until all the meat
is covered. Place the lid on the container and put it in the fridge for 8-24
hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ready to cook, remove from the brine and dry on kitchen paper (discard the rest
of the brine and ingredients). Slice thinly and then fry or grill on a high
heat in olive oil for a few minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Buy them – I use
Cool Chile – or make your own as they’re really easy. You can also make them
with beer: 250g masa harina, 330ml of beer and a pinch of salt. Mix it together
into a dough, wrap in cling film for 15 minutes, unwrap, cut into small balls
and roll into tacos about 3mm thick (even better, use a taco press) then fry in
a dry pan for 30 seconds on each side. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Half a white
onion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">2-4 chillis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Roast all the
ingredients (apart from the beer) at 200C for 20 minutes. Put in a blender and
whizz until smooth. Add a splash of beer, if you like, then check the seasoning
(I also add a squeeze of lime for more acidity).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">To serve: stack
two warm tacos (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">always</i> two), place
meat on top, add lots of fresh white onion, finely chopped coriander, a spoon
of salsa and a big squeeze of lime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">These are great
served with smoked porter as well – that beer loves the meat flavour and can
handle the lime and spice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I can see a lot
more taco making in the next few months… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The meat for this was provided by Simply Beef and Lamb
and it was genuinely some of the best English meat I’ve tasted. Look for the <a href="http://www.simplybeefandlamb.co.uk/quality-standard-mark" target="_blank">Quality Standard Mark</a> in independent butchers and selected supermarkets to be sure that
the beef or lamb is quality assured and responsibly produced by people
dedicated to producing great food.</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-55069527276429838522015-11-24T19:27:00.000+00:002016-09-04T14:02:06.538+01:00Tropical Fruit Juice IPA (or IPA in 2015) <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEtnlZYoaGSFXb5vJntRu9KY-oKyepeALHtumrXLtznEDoKnV1bScdF5hUCtBmt1dnwD22cQPe5xkB01o_S8Fq4r_3PQpiYWTtDAUVOlNe2FoJlgEHhyfI2MWbmFjgifeRjBJAT_FKvUn_/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-11-24+at+19.09.59.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEtnlZYoaGSFXb5vJntRu9KY-oKyepeALHtumrXLtznEDoKnV1bScdF5hUCtBmt1dnwD22cQPe5xkB01o_S8Fq4r_3PQpiYWTtDAUVOlNe2FoJlgEHhyfI2MWbmFjgifeRjBJAT_FKvUn_/s400/Screen+Shot+2015-11-24+at+19.09.59.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cellarmakerbrewing.com/" target="_blank">Cellarmaker</a>, San Francisco. At the forefront of new IPAs</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The world’s
greatest craft beer style, the one with the most storied history, the one most
misunderstood, most widely brewed, has been changing for the last three
centuries. And IPA continues to change and evolve faster than it ever has
before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Defining what an
IPA is has become a difficult thing to accurately achieve. Right now, arguably
the closest we can get is to say IPA is a beer that’s pale in colour and well-hopped, specifically for aromatics. I think we’ve even got to a place where IPA is a synonym simply for ‘hoppy’
and we require a prefix to tell us more precisely what to expect (Imperial,
Session, Red, and so on), with many variations being brewed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">If we take IPA
to mean the typical core-range American-style IPA then it’s likely going to be 5.5%-7.5%
ABV, straw-to-amber in colour, hop-bitter and aromatic with US and new world
hops, and that’s a very broad general description which doesn’t tell us
anything specific about the flavours or subtleties – it’s like saying a
cheeseburger is a meat patty topped with cheese between a sliced bread roll,
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albeit limited, is to break down American IPAs into some broad geographic types,
or ones linked to particular periods of time, which I attempted in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Beer-World-global-perfect/dp/1909313718/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" target="_blank">The Best Beer in the World</a></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style is so fast-moving, I didn’t get to include the most recent American IPA trend,
which I think evolves from the profiles of Oregon, Vermont and newer California
IPAs, and which can accurately be described as Fresh Tropical Fruit Juice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">These new IPAs
are unfiltered (sometimes hazy, sometimes properly murky) and very pale in
colour. The intensity bitterness is low and character malts are non-existent.
The time of them being super-dry and bitter has shifted towards softer, rounder
bodies with some residual sweetness, though you don’t immediately notice that
texture because the hop aroma is so dominant, so powerfully wowing, with the
aroma sticking to the subtle sweetness in the beer, and giving the unmistakable
qualities of fresh fruit juice – pineapple, mango, peaches, melon, papaya. There’s also a new focus on freshness to capture those aromas at their
very juicy best – two weeks old is becoming too old (don’t underestimate this and it's not like <a href="http://enjoyby.stonebrewing.com/" target="_blank">these enjoy</a> <a href="https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/blog/born-to-die-again" target="_blank">before they die</a> IPAs:
the draft-only, local-only – perhaps brewery-bar-only – hyper fresh IPA is
nearby). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">And notice that the pine resin, florals and grapefruit aromas are missing from the flavour profile of
these IPAs – the classic qualities of American C-hops like Cascade, Columbus,
Centennial are not present. And that’s relevant because these juicy IPAs are
using newer hop varieties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Citra was first
released in 2007 but it took a couple of years before it was grown and brewed-with
in larger volumes. The flavours in Citra (tropical, citrus, soft fleshy fruits)
are different to those famous C-hop staples; they aren’t tangy, pithy, resinous
or floral. They’re <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">juicy</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">At a similar
time we got to try more Australian and New Zealand hops with their exotic tropical
fruity aromas. Then came the next <a href="http://beerandbrewing.com/VN6DKycAAH0T-BbI/article/so-many-new-hops" target="_blank">big hop releases</a> from 2012 onwards: Mosaic,
Equinox, Tahoma, Azzaco, Polaris, and more, plus newer European varieties like Mandarina Bavaria.
These take that juiciness further and give even more tropical fruits plus melon and fragrant stone fruit</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">. These new hops have changed the way
IPAs taste because once we know it’s possible to make a beer smell like Um
Bongo we crave more of its freshness. Bitterness, pine and grapefruit can do
one – it needs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">juice </i>now. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Cellarmaker... They were the inspiration for this post thanks to their juicy, juicy beers</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">One side-effect of this change is how brewers are re-focusing on the American IPA. In the last five years
we’ve seen the IPA-ification of all beers, like Black IPA, Belgian IPA, White IPA, Wild
IPA, Fruited IPA, and so on, but we’re now seeing those sub-categories disappear.
In their place are new IPAs. There’s IPAs using these new hops in new
combinations, IPAs brewed with new hopping techniques from emerging research
studies on hops, there are SMASH IPAs (Single Malt and Single Hop), <a href="http://beervana.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/introducing-hop-bursting-part-1-history.html" target="_blank">hop burst IPAs</a>, and more. It’s interesting that while the broader sub-categories seem to
be disappearing, the Session IPA is an unstoppable style. And with this beer we’re
seeing some of the best uses of these new hops and techniques (<a href="http://www.stonebrewing.com/beer/year-round-releases/stone-go-ipa" target="_blank">Stone Go To IPA</a>,
<a href="http://www.firestonebeer.com/beers/products/easy-jack" target="_blank">Firestone Walker Easy Jack</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">IPAs currently
account for around <a href="https://www.brewersassociation.org/insights/the-next-ipa/" target="_blank">27% of the US craft beer market</a>, or seven million barrels of
gloriously hoppy beers. In 2010 it was only around 12% of the market and one
million barrels. That’s incredible growth, even more so when you consider that
the craft beer segment is also growing exponentially – IPA is growing within a fast-growing
category.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br />As well as
growing up and out it’s still changing. It’s always changing; it’s been changing
for 300 years, a liquid snapshot of brewing. These tropical fruit juicebomb
IPAs (they are juicier than <a href="http://chrishallbeer.com/2014/10/15/electric-citrus-the-rise-of-the-juicy-banger/" target="_blank">Juicy Bangers</a>) are not like West Coast IPAs from
five years ago. They’re not like the now-classic examples from 10-20 years ago
(Lagunitas IPA, Racer 5, Odell IPA). These are today’s IPA where the
never-ending search for newness and freshness continues to change what IPA is.
And tomorrow’s IPA? Surely it can – somehow – only get juicier. Until it
changes again.</span><br />
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On Tuesday 13 October I’m having the launch for <a href="http://www.pencilandspoon.com/p/the-best-beer-in-world.html" target="_blank">The Best Beer in the World</a> at <a href="https://www.bottle-shop.co.uk/index.php/contact-us/" target="_blank">Bottle Shop</a> in Bermondsey.</div>
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I’ve picked some of my favourite beers to go on the bar (and
you’ll get a few free ones if you buy the book on the night), I’ve ordered a
lot of good cheese from Neal’s Yard and some St John Bakery sourdoughs, plus
I’ll make a couple of cakes (using beer, obvs, and a tasty preview for my <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Beer-lagers-delicious-recipes/dp/1909313890/" target="_blank">fourth book</a>,
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It'll start around 6.30pm and everyone is welcome, so come along and drink some great
beers – the list currently includes Camden Town IHL, Birrificio Italiano
Tipopils and Pilsner Urquell (which are the three free beers for book buyers),
plus Burning Sky Saison Provision and Kernel’s Pale Ale Mosaic. And more to
come...<br /><br />I’m also starting to plan in other events and chats around
the book. The next one will be at <a href="http://www.thebeershoplondon.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Beer Shop London</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/beershoplondon/status/649990456848334848" target="_blank">Monday 26 October</a>.
That’s £15 for a bunch of good beers and a chat about the best beer in the
world – the idea, the search, the conclusion.<br /><br />If you plan on coming to the launch at Bottle Shop then let me know so that I can plan exactly how much beer we'll need.</div>
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Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-63467567690932026852015-09-18T09:41:00.001+01:002015-09-18T09:41:47.017+01:00Bia Hoi in Hanoi<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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I couldn’t quite take the picture in time. I saw it, fumbled
to unlock my phone, fingers sticky from street food, and I tapped the camera
icon, but the scooter carrying five silver kegs was already weaving through
Hanoi’s never-ending traffic.</div>
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As we follow in the same direction I’m soon distracted. There
are people everywhere, everything moves so fast, life condensed into the
packed, stacked, compact streets; the air is thick with the smell of bubbling
stock pots, an aniseed edge to every inhale coming from all the herbs, tropical
fruit adding a fragrant sticky warmth; every turn reveals something new,
something I’ve never seen before. Like Bia Hoi Corner. <o:p></o:p><br />
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This famous intersection of bars has battered old beer kegs
lined up on the kerb, people run around with trays of glasses, trays of fried
food, the scooters weave in and out of all of it, and hundreds of people sit outside
on tiny plastic stools, a dozen different languages bouncing around. It’s one of the world’s most exciting and lively places to drink,
where the local beer, bia hoi, is unlike any other lager you’ll have had
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Bia hoi essentially means draft beer, the ‘bia’ bit derivate
from the French ‘bi<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">è</span>re’, and it’s a pale lager, somewhere between 3%-4% ABV,
brewed with malt and rice. That part is fairly normal for Asia. What makes it
different is that after fermentation, at the point where lagers usually undergo
an extended conditioning period, bia hoi is kegged and sent to bars. It’s fresh
beer, a few days old, unfiltered and unpasteurised, with barrels delivered to
bars every morning and emptied within a day, all served and drunk on the side
of the street.<o:p></o:p><br />
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And that busy street-side experience is remarkable. When you
sit on those plastic stools, knees under your chin, with your feet in the road,
you’re given a tumbler, sometimes glass, sometimes plastic, of pale lager, and it’s something wonderfully simple in the
middle of the madness. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bia hoi has the light, clean essence of Asian rice lager,
made lighter by being low in alcohol and lacking depth because of its youth,
the same youth which brings fruity esters of banana and strawberry. You also
often taste the kind of caramel and buttery sweetness of Czech lager,
reflecting the Czech influence on beer here (something surprisingly prevalent,
especially so in Hanoi’s many brewpubs). The best bia hoi are really fine
glasses of refreshingly bitter beer; the
less-good ones aren’t worth worrying about when you’ve only spent 10p on it – it's one of the cheapest beers in the world.<o:p></o:p><br />
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While the liquid itself might be simple, understanding it is
less so. All bia hoi is a bit different and the quality ranges. Different
breweries make it (most big, some small), kegs change taste through the day, it
changes depending on where you drink it, some bars have large drums of beer,
others just tilt kegs on the roadside with barely any bar to house it; sometimes
it cold, other times barely cool, some are great, others are ok, plus you never know who makes what you’re
drinking because it’s free of branding; it’s just bia hoi, draft beer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is Vietnam’s beer and drinking it in Hanoi is a rare
and wonderful experience. Nowhere makes or serves beer in this way, a
fast-brewed, very fresh beer, kegs opened and emptied in one day before another
delivery comes the next morning, where you drink on the street and the
simplicity of the beer is the best kind of counter to the craziness of life
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<i>It’s worth knowing that you can also get draft beer that
isn’t bia hoi – this is regular kegged lager from the local breweries, so if
you specifically want bia hoi then you have to order that. And my favourite
place to drink bia hoi wasn’t on Bia Hoi Corner, it was on the corner of Bat
Dan and Duong Thanh (the top picture is the place) – lovely and bitter beer, in a place filled with locals eating good
cheap food. There was also a place opposite (the one with the big 100-litre
drums in the picture above) which was good.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Yesterday I had <a href="https://instagram.com/p/7h7LbEE2cn/" target="_blank">beer-cured bacon</a> with bacon stout ketchup
for breakfast. I’d started making it a week earlier, brining belly pork in
smoked porter, brown sugar, maple syrup and salt. I took the pork out of the
brine on Friday morning and left it to dry out in the fridge, then cut thick
rashers and fried them, the sugars caramelising, the beer giving a toasty,
smoky flavour, and the pork itself more porky in depth through the curing
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That bacon was something like the 75<sup>th</sup> recipe I’d
cooked incorporating beer this summer (and a very big clue to what my fourth
book, out next spring, is going to be…). So when I heard about <a href="http://wahleeah.uk/" target="_blank">Wahleeah</a>, a
restaurant specialising in using beer as an ingredient, I planned to go as soon
as I could, which was last night. And I discovered that Wahleeah is way more
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Take the salt and pepper, for example. The pepper on the
tables contains 11 ingredients. The salt takes three days to produce and
contains horseradish and a process that involves smoking water. Diners
shouldn’t even need to use them, says chef Dave Ahern, but if he has to have
salt and pepper on the tables then he wants the best he can get with an exact
flavour, and it turns out the only way to get that flavour is to make them
himself. This obsessive level of detail is in everything – Dave makes cheese,
vinegar, condiments, and more, for the restaurant. Beer is just one small part
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But for me, the beer part is the reason I’m there. Having
spent the summer cooking with beer, I know all the good and bad things about
what happens when you add beer into a recipe and I want to see what Wahleeah
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Oxtail and onions cooked in Fuller’s Black Cab Stout is rich
with beer, full-on meaty with the onions giving a nice sweetness. There’s
delicious crab cauliflower cheese, perfect with the suggested pairing of
Weihenstaphaner Hefeweizen. There’s also beer-cured salmon with house pickles,
stuffed mushrooms with beer and soy, a beer chilli to go on tater tots.<br />
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Larger plates include mussels in witbier with the addition
of deeply-savoury ham hock, where it pretty much demands the beer on the side
to act like part of the recipe, giving a freshness to lift the richness. A huge
rib-eye steak comes with a brilliant beer fondant potato and a stout sauce,
where that table salt and pepper gives it a remarkable extra depth of flavour (and
recalls one of my favourite ever beer matches: steak, parsnip fries,
horseradish sauce and oatmeal stout). There’s also ricotta dumplings with beer
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Then desserts: chocolate stout brownie with banana beer ice
cream is superb and perfect with a bottle of Liefman’s Kriek, there’s also
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It’s all big-flavoured but elegantly done; next-level pub
food incorporating the pub’s most central drink, but it’s not all about the
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I love that Wahleeah is taking beer seriously – that’s the
best thing about it for me. I love that the food is very good and I love how the
beers used in the cooking enhance the dishes in their own subtle ways without
ever overpowering – they are additional seasonings, they add depth which other
ingredients can’t add, they give their richness, and they compliment the food. I
also love how each dish comes with a beer suggestion – and that those matches
are very well selected (done by <a href="http://boutiquebarbrands.com/" target="_blank">Boutique Bar Brands</a>). It makes the beer important and it encourages people to
try new beers. And it has around 12 draft beers and 50 bottles, so there's a lot of choice. These are all good things.<br />
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Wahleeah is the first restaurant in the world to focus so
completely on beer cooking. This could be seen as a gimmick, a Cereal Café for
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many beers I could write about in <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Beer-World-global-perfect/dp/1909313718/" target="_blank">The Best Beer in the World</a> and only so much
space to pick out individual glasses of beer from the travels, meaning many
important and wonderful beers didn’t get the space they perhaps deserved. Instead
of going in the book, this begins an on-going series of some of the best beers
and experiences I’ve had from around the world. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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It’s just off the Grote Markt, perhaps 40 paces from the
Belfry; you take a left and then a right and then you’re there. But I still
walked past the tiny alleyway twice before I found it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s a clue: find La Belgique Gourmade and La Cure
Gourmade and right between them is a small gap. You could stand directly
opposite those brightly-coloured shops and still not see it. But it’s there, I
promise. A few meters in and there’s the well-worn steps leading through a cloistered
brick doorway and that’s <a href="http://www.degarre.be/" target="_blank">Staminee De Garre</a>, the place you’ve been searching for, a tiny dark bar
with just a few tables and a few taps.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Order their eponymous house tripel and what arrives a minute
or two later, on a paper-doilied tray, is one of the finest-looking beers in
the world. A thick whip of Swiss meringue foam on top of just-hazy golden beer,
the heavy base of the glass is like a fat door knob, the bowl is as sturdy as
the beer within it, a beer powerful in its depth. There’s a fragrant
peppery-orangey spiciness, there’s a hot sweetness in there, it’s boozy yet refreshing
with the foam giving a smooth creaminess. And the cheese. It comes with cheese.
These little cubes are the most perfect little tangy-creamy mouthfuls with that
mighty brew. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One beer disappears too quickly, leaving its white lace down
the glass, and you immediately want another because you don’t want to leave the
little bar, don’t want to go back and brave the waves of tourists, don’t want
to stop drinking this beautiful beer.<br /><br />Don’t miss this place in Bruges. And I mean that quite literally;
don’t miss the tiny little street with the big beer at the end of it.</div>
Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-8494394081789724402015-08-25T12:42:00.002+01:002015-08-25T12:42:31.218+01:00My new book: The Best Beer in the World<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Five years ago I drank the best beer in the world.<br /></span></div>
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I was sitting on a hot Greek beach with a cold glass of
lager and it was incredible. Nothing had ever refreshed me quite so completely,
no moment had been more glorious than this one, no beer had ever tasted so good.
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Yet I knew that this lager, served in a frosted glass, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wasn’t</i> the best beer that was available
in the world. I knew there were beers that tasted better because I’d drunk
them. It was only in that moment, when I wanted nothing more than this cold
beer, that it struck me as perfection, as being the best.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And that made me think.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What could <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actually </i>be
the best beer in the world? Did such a thing even exist? What beers would be
contenders? I got out a notebook and I started scribbling down ideas. By the
time I’d drunk that cold lager I’d noted down what I thought were some of the
best stories in the beer world. I also thought it’d make a brilliant book. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But I didn’t write the book. I was working full time in a
college, I was writing blogs most days, I wasn’t ready to write something like
that and I couldn’t afford to do the travel – I was just a 25-year-old guy who
loved beer and wanted to drink lots of it. But the idea stuck with me and I’d
regularly go back to it and add notes and more ideas, plus my drinking did
essentially become a never-ending search for the best beers and the best
drinking experiences. It was also a question people began to ask me when they
found out that I wrote about beer: What’s the best beer? What’s your favourite
beer? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then I wrote Craft Beer World. I learnt <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a lot</i>. And I thought that maybe now I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">could</i> write this book, so I put the idea to my publishers. I ended
up writing Beer and Food instead. Then once that was finished I went back to Best
Beer, I developed it, I wrote a few chapters, and I knew that it was the book I
wanted to write next. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The idea behind The Best Beer in the World is to tell the
stories of some of the world’s most interesting and important beers. Each
chapter is a long-form first-person travel piece which looks at the history and
the present and also considers the actual taste. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I travelled as much as my wallet would allow (20 countries, over five continents, and to about 150 breweries...). I went to
every brewery that I thought was relevant for a book like this. I lived like a
monk at Orval, I threw Altbier and Kolsch into a fight, I tell the story of the
original golden lager, I brewed my own perfect beer and went on my perfect pub
crawl in London, I went IPA hunting in California, I stopped at Sierra Nevada
to drink perhaps the most important beer brewed in the 20<sup>th</sup> century,
I brewery-crawled around Beervana, I looked at what it’s like for a young
couple to start a brewery in Australia and how they’re shaping the future of
beer, I drank and danced at the world’s second-largest Oktoberfest, I went to
China to drink the world’s best-selling beer, I spent 10p on the cheapest beer
in the world, I drank the best-known beer in the world (and was blown away by
how beautiful the brewhouse is), I tried to answer beer’s biggest truism (Is
Guinness better in Dublin?), I drank sour beer at Cantillon, found myself at a
remote farmhouse in Vermont, I drank the best Italian craft beers and then I
went back to the beach and drank cold lager on a hot day, all in the search for
the best beer in the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alongside the longer chapters are some pages on topics like cask ales and the history of IPA, plus travel guides to around 25 of the
top drinking cities in the world, so it’s also a practical guide to beer
drinking. And did I find the best beer? Well, that’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almost</i> not the point of the book. With The Best Beer in the World I
wanted to take a broader look at world beer, to tell some stories that haven’t
been told before, and to appreciate the search itself, the travel, the people I
met, the things I saw and learnt, and to consider <i>all</i> beers as being relevant. </div>
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<o:p>The book is at print and due out in October. It’s available on <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Beer-World-global-perfect/dp/1909313718/" target="_blank">pre-order</a> (and from <a href="http://www.rylandpeters.com/the-best-beer-in-the-world" target="_blank">my publishers</a>) and it’s very different in content to the previous two books. I’m excited for this one to be released.<br /></o:p></div>
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In 2014 I’ve drunk beer in 17 different countries across
five continents, visiting 136 breweries along the way. If I hadn’t drunk so
much over the last 12 months then it would’ve been an unforgettable year…
Bypassing the usual Golden Pints (because I tried and it was too hard), here
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were given litre steins of Kout’s 12</span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">°</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> pale lager. It was astonishingly good. During a tour the brewery,
which is basically a derelict farm, we drank the 14</span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">°</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and 18</span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">°</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> dark beers from the tank, out of large jugs.
All the Kout beers are incomparably good. For more on the brewery, you should
read Evan Rail’s <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brewery-Bohemian-Forest-Evan-Rail-ebook/dp/B00KRPY4GE" target="_blank">excellent kindle single</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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drank in China and one of the best IPAs I’ve tasted – super clean, super juicy,
superbly balanced. Their Airpocalypse DIPA is equally awesome and the price
goes up and down depending on the air quality that day – if it’s particularly
smoggy outside then head to the pub as the air is cleaner and the beer is
cheaper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Indian Summer – from which IHL evolved – I’ve adored this beer. It’s the
perfect mix of IPA’s hops and lager’s clean balance. IHL is ruinously bangable
and just always good. Hells Lager also needs a mention because I’ve drunk more
of this than anything else this year and it just keeps on getting better – it’s
my go-to beer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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favourite beer and drinking a few glasses of it at the brewery in Boulder confirmed
that – it has the best body and balance of any Witbier I’ve had and it’s so
full of flavour. I also had a few glasses of Maharajah DIPA while at the
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most of while in Australia. It’s just about the juiciest banger (to use the
beer term of the year) with the most delicious tropical fruit aroma and
flavour. The brewery in Melbourne is a very cool place with a whole range of
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something special about the beers – a house quality that’s a little fruity with
a hint of sulphur – that I adore. The Pils is always great but this year it was
the Dunkel which grabbed me, a beer with just a hint of toastiness and caramel
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2014 walking around industrial estates looking for breweries. For Night Shift
that walk was totally worth it to find some incredible beers – I ended up
drinking a 4oz pour of everything on tap (which left me a little
over-refreshed). All of the IPAs were next-level-good, as were the sours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brewery I went to this year was Blackman’s in Torquay, about an hour out of
Melbourne. Renn Blackmann brewed at Camden Town for a while before moving back
to Oz and opening his own place with his girlfriend Jess. All the beers are
bang-on-brilliant but especially this Citra-hopped lager. Perfect with the
Asian-inspired food in the brewpub. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ultimate test of how much I like a beer: I bought a case of it. Those 24
bottles didn’t last long and I haven’t had it since but I still remember its
subtle brilliance and sweetly juicy aroma. Pressure Drop’s Pale Fire became my
replacement for this, a beer brewed 10-minutes from my flat and often in my glass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some biscuity malt, a smooth body yet still refreshingly light, then a long,
dry, hoppy finish. So good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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microbrewery makes this American-style IPA which you can only buy in the bottle
from the brewery. I begged and pleaded for them to let me buy some bottles to
take home but they wouldn’t do it. If I say it’s ‘Pliny good’ then you know
what level it’s at.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as hundreds of bikes buzzed past, is one of my favourite experiences from this
year. We spent three days drinking it and I loved every cool glass I had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this from the tank at the brewery in October. “It smells like juice!” I said,
unable to control my spontaneous excitement. “I know!” replied John Kimmich,
looking as excited about it as I felt. A beer worthy of all its hype.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hours after running the city’s Marathon, and we’re drunk and full from drinking
and eating too much. On the slow, painful walk home we pass a shop selling
Augustiner Helles and drink it on the way. Great beer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I think it’s one of the most exciting craft beer markets in the world right now
– the beer quality is exceptionally high and there’s a great variety of beers.
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A Cascade-hopped German-style wheat beer that’s fruity in
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St Louis is one of the most beautiful breweries I’ve ever seen. Drinking the beer
from townhouse-sized tanks wasn’t as revelatory as other underground lager experiences
but it was still a brilliant thing to have done and gave me a newfound
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flavours this year and Smog Rocket is a constantly good dark, smoked beer. The
combination of that with the ribs in Duke’s is one of the best beer and food
experiences this year. I’ve drunk a lot of Beavertown in 2014 and will drink a
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brewpubs when we passed this place without knowing about it. We shouted “stop
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My second book, <i><a href="http://www.rylandpeters.com/ourshop/food-and-drink/beer-and-food" target="_blank">Beer and Food</a></i>, is out now! The title hints at what it’s about, but let me tell
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My goal was to make a book about the topic of putting beer
and food together, but I didn’t want it to just be lists of things which taste
good. I wanted to go deeper, I wanted to understand how things interact, how
the sensations of taste work, the science and composition of different
ingredients (like how Simcoe, Citra and many Aussie and Kiwi hops are
especially high in the oil myrcene, which is also found in thyme, bay and mango,
meaning there’s natural flavour crossovers), as well as giving some great
pairings that anyone can try.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wanted to make it fun and approachable, not just some
geek-fest of weird dishes and unobtainable beers – it’s realistic in what
people eat and drink. Plus in the book there’s a section about what to eat and
drink with a hangover, what beers to have with fast food, what goes best with
breakfast or the foods to choose with mainstream brews. The idea is simply that
is makes people think differently about how beer and food can be put together.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The book is in four parts. The first introduces the idea of
beer and food together, it gives some beer history and goes through the brewing
process. The second part starts with the beer style and finds food to go with
it, as well as suggesting some general and good matches to go with. Part three
begins with the food and then gets a beer to go with it. The final section
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For the recipes, there are some classics like carbonnade and
then there’s a load which I’ve developed myself – simple, tasty dishes which
benefit from beer being added to them (some of which came from the earlier days
of this blog), like beer doughnuts, a beery eton mess, stout mashed potatoes, chicken
cooked in Duvel inspired by coq a la biere (which I couldn’t resist calling ‘Coq
a la Duvel Doo… still makes me laugh today), or this beauty for ribs cooked in
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It was a fun book to write. I spent the whole of last summer
either eating, drinking, writing, cooking or trying to run as far as possible to
have some healthy balance. I lost count of the number of meals I had with at
least three glasses of beer and I don’t know how many times I put cling film
over the top of a bottle to save it for the next day or to use it in a recipe
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I’m really pleased with the book and very proud of it. Hopefully
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It’s available on Amazon in the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beer-Food-Mark-Dredge/dp/1909313238/" target="_blank">UK</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beer-Food-Mark-Dredge/dp/1909313238/" target="_blank">US</a>. It’s also in
bookstores all over the place (it’s already been spotted in Australia). There’s
a <a href="http://issuu.com/rylandpeters/docs/beer_and_food" target="_blank">10-page preview online here</a>. And don’t forget that my first book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Craft-Beer-World-Mark-Dredge/dp/0957140991" target="_blank">Craft Beer World</a></i>, is also still
available (that’s still good and you should also own that one). There’s a
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Craft-Beer-World-guide-finest-ebook/dp/B00J75NDDU/" target="_blank">Kindle version</a> of that, too (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beer and Food</i>
might follow, but not for six months). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Easter means chocolate. It also means a long weekend of beering
(that’s what it means for me, anyway). It’s also a fine time to bring beer
and chocolate together and make truffles. The good thing for this recipe is
that once you know the basic way of making the truffles you can pimp them with
whatever beer and chocolate you want.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The basic Beer
Chocolate Truffle recipe<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Makes 10-20 truffles<o:p></o:p></div>
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100ml double cream<o:p></o:p></div>
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100ml beer<o:p></o:p></div>
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25g butter<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pinch of salt<o:p></o:p></div>
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200g dark chocolate (or 400g if it’s white or milk)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Something to roll the truffles in<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gently warm the cream, beer, butter and salt in a pan but
don’t let it boil. Remove from the heat and mix in the chocolate, stirring
until it melts. Put in a bowl and place in the fridge to allow the mixture to
cool and set. When ready to go, use a melon-baller or two spoons to create the
round truffle shapes and then roll in cocoa powder, ground roasted barley (this
works really well if you can get some), crushed toasted nuts or desiccated
coconut. Then eat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you want to make these with milk or white chocolate then
the recipe changes slightly and you need more chocolate to liquid. So a mix of
100ml cream and 100ml beer requires about 400g of chocolate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Here are 10 of my favourite combinations<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Cherry beer and dark chocolate – you can also add dried sour
cherries to it<o:p></o:p></div>
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Simply imperial stout and dark chocolate which combines nicely
to make the mix extra rich<o:p></o:p></div>
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Get spicy with dark or milk chocolate, dried chilli flakes
and cardamom, plus coffee stout<o:p></o:p></div>
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Go Belgian with milk chocolate and quadrupel, perhaps also
adding some cinnamon or quad-soaked raisins<o:p></o:p></div>
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Weizenbock with white chocolate and rolled in toasted
hazelnuts<o:p></o:p></div>
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Double IPA and white chocolate, plus a teaspoon of honey,
then rolled in coconut is really good<o:p></o:p></div>
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An unexpectedly delicious combo is milk chocolate and
Rauchbier, giving the equivalent of chocolate covered bacon. A pinch of smoked
salt helps boost it all<o:p></o:p></div>
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Black IPA, dark chocolate and orange zest is superb <o:p></o:p></div>
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Recreate PB&J with dark chocolate, a tablespoon of
crunchy peanut butter and some raspberry beer. Roll this one in crushed salted
pretzels<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bourbon barrel-aged stout with milk or dark chocolate and
rolled in coconut is like an adult version of a Bounty bar<o:p></o:p></div>
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This recipe (and the photo at the top) is from my new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beer-Food-Mark-Dredge/dp/1909313238/" target="_blank">Beer and Food</a>. It’s out on
15 May and you can pre-order it online - below are 10 sample pages. I’m really excited for this book to be released – it’s about the best of beer and food together, there’s some science
to how and why beer works well, there’s ideas for pairings, plus a few recipes
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="325" src="//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/6862851" width="525"></iframe>Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-22761348131033394682014-03-13T10:11:00.000+00:002014-03-13T10:11:39.287+00:00The BrewBurger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The bastards beat me to it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had this plan, you see, to try and make the most beery
burger the world had ever seen. A cheeky little tie-in to plug my new book –
Beer and Food, coming soon! <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beer-Food-Mark-Dredge/dp/1909313238" target="_blank">Pre-order it now!</a> – that would challenge me to use
as much beer as possible and still get a delicious burger. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And then <a href="http://www.brewdog.com/" target="_blank">BrewDog</a> and <a href="http://honestburgers.co.uk/" target="_blank">Honest Burger</a> did it with the
<a href="http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article/brewdog-and-honest-burgers-launch-the-brewburger" target="_blank">BrewBurger</a>. Something so boozy you need an ID to order it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Despite my DIPA-level of bitterness, I still wanted to eat
it. I had to eat it, in fact. I couldn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i>
eat it. I mean, look at it. It’s a magnificent masterpiece of meat. And I say
this as someone who spends most of my internet browsing (the non-incognito hours
anyway) looking at photos of burgers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The burger stacks 5am Saint candied bacon, Punk IPA onions
and a Paradox BBQ sauce along with comte cheese and Honest’s brilliant beef
patty. And it’s excellent. The use of beer is subtle, adding depth of flavour
instead of just being a gimmick. The meat is always good at Honest and the bun
is so soft and sweet. It comes with a Bourbon Baby, BrewDog’s barrel-aged
scotch ale which tastes a bit like JD and coke, in a good way – sweet vanilla,
molasses, wood, spice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Having had the BrewBurger, I’m still inspired to make the
ultimate beer-infused version because I reckon I can a lot more beer into a
burger and still make it taste awesome. For example, in my cupboard at home
right now I have hot sauce made with IPA, I’ve got Black IPA ketchup, rauchbier
BBQ sauce and three types of beer mustard. I’ve made mayonnaise with beer. A
beer-battered onion ring, perhaps. Beer cheese. Beer onions is a gimme. Beer chilli, jalapenos or pickles. Beer in the bread dough. Some
hop salt on the fries. Some crushed malt instead of sesame seeds. Anyway... <br /><br />If you like burgers and beers then try the BrewBurger while
you can. In the meantime, I’m going to have to come up with a better idea for
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