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...

I leave my flat, drive up the High Street and follow it ahead, turn left then I drive in a straight line until I need to turn right down a ...

The term Mid-Atlantic Pale Ale seems to be bandying around after Gazza proposed the name for hoppy British ales. Mid-Atlantic pale ale.....

The Good: The beer (obviously); the pork scratchings (obviously); seeing friends, old and new; third measures; the volunteers who deserv...

Ok, ok, so I’ve done the exaggerated screamy hyperbole before , but this time I really mean it: Moor Revival is the best bottled British...

Perhaps I was too hasty in my wild praise of Thornbridge Halcyon . It’s not that it doesn’t deserve it – of course it does, it’s bloody fan...

Excuse the tabloid hyperbole and screamy capital letters, but I don’t think enough people have said just how good Thornbridge Halcyon 2009 ...

Grand for its rural village location, a large garden, sweeping countryside views. The bar of The Queens Arms, in Corton Denham, Somerset , i...

I'm in the pub right now. I ordered a pint of British Bulldog from Westerham Brewery , a micro just up the road from here. It's a gl...

In The Evening Star , Brighton. I‘d gone there wanting Dark Star's Saison , the brewery special for March, and it was on the bar. It’s a...

Dark Star's Six Hop  is one of the best beers I’ve drunk so far this year, whether in the UK or California, from anywhere in the world,...

What did beer taste like hundreds of years ago, I often ask myself. What hops did they use in their double IPAs in the 1700s, what kind of...

My beer of the year was Marble Pint . It was totally deserving – it’s clean, hoppy, pale, so fruity and drinkable and rammed with flavour;...

Personally, I’ve had a good 2009. I graduated from a Masters degree, I started a career, I moved in with my girlfriend, I wrote the first d...

After all the organising, the blogging, the tweeting, the hoping things would work out, the collect+ problems, the broken bottles, re-sendi...

I’d been saving up bottles of stout for ages in the lead up to one big, black blow-out beer night. Two weekends ago I finally held Stout Ni...