Discomfort Zone: Uncle Zester
What beer IS is becoming harder and harder to define. This is a good thing because beer is essentially cookery and physics. Unlike single ingredient […]
Month: December 2015
Sopfest 2015
The Sopwell Beer & Cider Festival I sit at the bar in the Hare & Hounds and watch as a pint is drawn through a […]
Raising the Hertfordshire Bar
To the rear of the Alban Arena in St Albans is an unremarkable grey service road called Civic Close. Dull though it both looks and […]
Book Review: The CAMRA Guide to London’s Best Beer, Pubs & Bars
This updated guide by Des de Moor is a much fuller update to his 2011 version. In the heart of Belgravia stands a floral pub […]
Brew Britannia – The Strange Rebirth of British Beer
This book has a bizarre effect on me that some pubs have – it makes me nostalgic for a time I wasn’t around in. In […]