Coffee beers for UK Coffee Week
This week, amongst other things, is UK Coffee Week. Running until Sunday, it’s a celebration of all things jitterbean-related, and acts as a platform for Project Waterfall – a scheme, run in partnership with Water Aid, which aims to bring clean drinking water to some of the poorest coffee-growing regions of Africa. I only started […]
The best IPA in Britain
This is, in truth, a post I’ve wanted to write for a long while. A list – my list – of the best IPA’s in Britain. The problem is, every time I sit down and riffle through the selection of names, there are more to consider. Another one arrives seemingly every week. The demand for […]
BeerCast #69 – Spa IPA
BeerCast #69 – Spa IPA. Today our BeerCasters get to grips with four outstanding British IPA’s. Rather co-incidentally, it turns out that three of them hail from celebrated English spa towns (with the other nearby to a fourth). Richard, Stu, Shovels and Grooben work through the beers, and as IPA fans, expect some big scores…
1. Ilkley Lotus IPA (5.7%)
2. Bristol Beer Factory Southville Hop (6.5%)
3. Roosters Serlo de Burgh (6.0%)
4. Buxton Axe Edge (6.8%)
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Autumnal Ales
The concept of seasonality is now one of the hallmarks of modern cooking, pushed to the general public by the ranks of TV chefs and foodie magazines. Everything has a ‘time of year’, whether it’s the British asparagus, salty samphire, or humble mackerel (as one BeerCaster asked for in a fancy Edinburgh fishmonger’s, only to […]
In praise of…The Grain Barge, Bristol
Pubs come in many shapes and sizes, and are to be found in many unusual and varied locations. I’ve been to several great pubs near water, but never actually visited one on water before – until I set foot aboard the Grain Barge in Bristol, that is. As the name suggests, it used to ply […]
