It’s taken me hours to get this down to what it is. I’m cheating the brief by adding a number of nominees for some of the categories but I’...

I’m in my flat. It’s September and almost sunny. I pop the swing top of a chunky bottle and pour it out while I’m concentrating on making d...

We’re underground. Possibly as deep as 12m. It’s less than 7°C. We are just a short way into the 19km of cellars, somewhere amid the 32,000...

I have a theory: any beer works with any pizza... Pizza is an inherently simple, eat-with-your-hands food. It’s the stuff of our childhood...

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...

Another beer night. This one reserved for those special bottles we’d been meaning to drink for so long but just never got around to it, sha...

Here begins my campaign for canned craft beer in the UK. The official slogan is currently ‘Cans are not just for baked beans’, but I’m still...

I’m back! After a week of drunken (or hungover) posts, blurry pictures and general bleurgh, this blog should return to its usual state. As i...

I made it to San Francisco. Wake up at 4.30am; drive to the airport; a delayed flight; a short layover in snowy, grey Germany; 11 hours in a...

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...

My first proper Rate Beer Hop Press post is now online. It’s about that question, the one which I’m sure we’ve all been asked many times ...

I thought I was done with the beer festival stuff for a while but there’s one more thing to ask and it only feels right to do it in my own f...

I’m trying to work on my monstrously over-sized post about GBBF but in the meantime here's something I wrote a few months ago. I’ve been...

The call of the flowery superhero returns and FAB POW! is here as the antidote to non-believing beer drinkers who think that a pint of King...

Is there a better beer on a hot, sunny day? Does anything hit the spot quite like a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale ? I don’t think it does. Does th...

It’s out. Brace yourselves. BrewDog have finally set free the 750ml bottles of Zephyr. But be quick. There are only 100 bottles on sale in t...

Just a midweek quickie about a brief love affair I had with a gorgeous Californian babe. I’ll never forget her. Although I’ve heard that her...