After making beer jelly and ice cream I wanted to beer-up another kids classic and it didn’t take long for me to stop at chicken nugge...

Image from here . I’ve written a few romantic poems (surprising even myself with some of these powerful rhymes!). Feel free to use these ...

Here’s a beer description; what’s the style? "Dark chocolate, coffee, berry fruit, vanilla and coconut; smooth and full bodied, strong...

Pete , Liz and Glyn have done it, now I’m doing it: here’s my ultimate pub jukebox. The Killers – Mr Brightside I flat out bloody love t...

Burton-on-Trent and Pilsen are epicentres of brewing past and present. Burton is Beer Town . Its world renown comes from the eponymous ales...

No, my bath wasn't quite like this... “Get naked, wrap in sheet, don’t shower.” Either it’s a crudely simplified translation by Ja...

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

My GBBF Survival Kit contains: 1 x beer list (tick, tick, tick) 1 x notepad (to remind me what I drank and how it tasted) 4 x freshly-sha...

There are terrible rumours going around that I am not a proper, hardcore beer geek and they are malicious because, despite what some are say...

Planet Thanet beer festival at the Winter Gardens in Margate. It's one of my favourite festivals of the year, no doubt. Good friends, g...

When I was 17 I worked at Gillingham Football Club . It was a good first job, fairly easy and I got to watch all of the home games. Over the...

I like to check what people are searching for when they land on this blog. The most common is 'pencil and spoon', as you might expec...

I know a few brewers read this from time to time and I’m wondering something (just my curiosity, nothing more)… There are books that I read ...

I like bottle tops. I collect them, I guess. It’s the bottle’s crown, the last thing you see before breaking in and pouring it out and there...

Beer is for sharing. It’s the friendliest thing I know. Beer makes friendships. A love for beer itself is a long-term love affair. You like ...

It started early, being woken by the blare of Balham High Street and the head-thumping effects of the British Guild of Beer Writers 21st An...

A theme park: a vast world of fun; rides, slides, rollercoasters, amusements; bright colours, loud noises; slow and steady or high-speed-hig...