Fundamentals #139 — Pressure Drop Cheese Volume 2 New England IPA
When I started this column, I called it Fundamentals because I wanted it to focus on the key elements of beer and brewing. Initially, I wanted to look at the...
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Fundamentals #139 — Pressure Drop Cheese Volume 2 New England IPA
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Fundamentals #114 – Howling Hops System Auto DDH Pale Ale
One of the greatest things about relocating to the northwest of England has been the shift in perspective it’s given me. As a former Londoner of 15 years, my time...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Aubergine Massaman Curry and Boxcar Brewery Double Dark Mild
If sourdough bread was very Lockdown 1, then Lockdown 3 looks more like one-pot cooking projects: long-simmered stews, tender meatballs, creamy pasta dishes. In the middle of a deep cold...
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Fundamentals #50 – Pressure Drop A Million Filaments Sour Fruited IPA
As I type, it is June 12th. Outside, the rain is endless in its relentlessness. I have switched the heating on. This time last year we were basking in weeks...
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Fundamentals #49 — The Kernel Foeder Beer Centennial Hallertau Tradition
There are few things more mesmerising within a brewery than a room full of foeders (or ‘foudres’, if the brewery decides to use the French spelling instead of the Dutch)....
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Fundamentals 48 - Brew By Numbers 85 Triple IPA Mosaic El Dorado Calypso
I’ve taken to enjoying a lot of wine recently. I’ve even gone as far as to sign up to HB&B’s Natural Wine Killers subscription club. It wasn’t long before my...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: A Mixed Cheese Plate and The Kernel India Brown Ale
January is a remarkably bad time for self-punishment, though we always convince ourselves that this darkest and dreariest of months is when we’ll finally get leaner, stronger, better. Spoiler: we...
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No More Heroes XIV - Howling Hops West Coast Special IPA #2
I get that people worry about the gradual Americanisation of our beer culture, I really do. The key thing to remember, for me at least, is that the beer landscape...
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Matthew Curtis's No More Heroes XII – Signature Brew Roadie Session IPA
Way back before I started to write about beer I used to play guitar in a pretty cool band called Brontosaurus Chorus. It was a lot of fun, we were...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Citrusy Sea Bass Ceviche and London Beer Lab Wheat Beer
nion and set aside one half. Slice the other half into very fine half-moons. Add to a bowl filled with ice water and allow to sit for 10 minutes (this...
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No More Heroes III: Beavertown 8 Ball Rye IPA
I don’t usually pay much attention to the A-boards that sit on pavements outside pubs. Those that ceaselessly try to out pun each other with increasingly inane ‘banter’. Recently though,...
