I’ve been waiting about two years to finally do this: a blind tasting between a bunch of quads. I’ve had the bottles ready to go since earl...

I've written about the Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation on my Hop Press blog . It really is a unique and wonderful beer festival. Yo...

Continued from yesterday . Saturday 29 th May 8.30am: I am woken by a loud fart. I’m surprisingly clear-headed (which might mean I’m sti...

Friday 28 th May 5.00am: Get up, shower, dress, pack, panic I’ve forgotten something important. 6.00am: Leave house, walk to train statio...

Back from Belgium and I had some fantastic beers in some fantastic places. I managed to drink a few of the recommendations from last week a...

Tomorrow I’m going to Belgium. We’re staying in Brussels on Friday and going to the Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation on the Saturday. Ho...

Ireland has beef and Guinness, England has steak and ale, Belgium has carbonnade . It’s that classic recipe which uses beer as the vital in...

Those handsome be-gnomed bottles of La Chouffe had been sitting in the cupboard for a while, next to each other like a beer-warped cartoon v...

It’s Monday 23rd February (quite a while ago now, oops) and here’s an as-live comparison between Chimay Red and Blue . 20.16pm: The first ...