Some people are just nice and want to give you bottles of beer because they think you will like them. This happened to me when I was in San...

The text arrived along the lines of: 'Are you going to be in tonight? If so, I’ve got a beer for you.' Two hours later Pete turned...

It seemed timely that as I was about to open a bottle of Hardknott Ӕther Blӕc I was reading a post by Dave about the labeling of the newly...

Double IPA festival yesterday. It was pretty nuts. Most beers were around 9% and bragged tongue-wrecking IBU levels. Everything was served i...

Barrel-aging beers has been the brewing in-thing for the last few years. I’ve had plain oak, god-knows-how-many whisky-barrels, rum-barrel,...

Innis & Gunn was one of the first beers I found myself drinking regularly when I made the switch from lager to ale. Since then I’ve fou...

I’ve been waiting for months. Desperate to try it. The idea put me in a whirl. An IPA, 12.5%. Whisky casks from 1965. Fresh strawberries, ta...

What makes a few breweries rise up above all the others? What makes them special and unique? What makes them who they are? If you ever get ...

Beer nights rock. A few of us get together, everyone brings a few different bottles, we share them, discuss them and then for a little bit o...

In recent years the US craft beer movement has super-sized beer all round. Beer is brewed to extremes of strength and bitterness. There has ...

Yesterday I met Stefano and Kelly from Thornbridge Brewery . It was a meet the brewer event held and arranged by lovebeeratborough . Basical...

The awesome guys at BrewDog are at it again, this time they’re going back to the origins of the IPA. They’ve found a 200-year-old IPA reci...

I’ve had a good beer-year. I’ve drunk a lot of great stuff, I’ve learnt a lot about beer, my tastes have developed and my palate has matured...

The BrewDog Coffee Imperial Stout was one of the very best beers I’ve had this year. Seriously good. Thick and luscious, rich and strong an...

Our tastes change and develop. And because taste is subjective, everyone is different. My favourite cheese used to be a mature cheddar, now ...

BrewDog . Where the most exciting beers coming out of the UK right now are being made right now. They’ve got a superb lager, two pale ales (...