The Beer Lover's Table: Tom Yum Pozole and Utopian Brewing Small Pils
I think about pozole a lot for someone who doesn’t eat it that often. This soup hails from Mexico and the southern US, and is notable for its starring ingredient:...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Tom Yum Pozole and Utopian Brewing Small Pils
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The Beer Lover's Table: Baja ‘Fish’ Tacos with Pineapple Salsa and Basil Avocado Crema with Two Flints x Willibald Clara Mexican Lager
Normally, I don’t cook with beer – I like it more as an accompaniment than an ingredient – but Baja fish tacos are an exception to the rule. There’s nothing...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Singaporean Chilli Crab Pasta and Sureshot Brewing Whimmy Wam Wam Wozzle Pilsner
Recently, inspired by the recent tteokbokki à la vodka recipe we made together, my partner and I were riffing on ideas for hybrid dishes - food that doesn’t neatly fit...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Tteokbokki à la Vodka and Donzoko Super King Smoked Helles
You can take the girl out of the Mid-Atlantic, but you can’t take the Mid-Atlantic out of the girl. It’s been more than 10 years since I relocated to London from...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Italian Sausage Hoagies and Weihenstephaner Festbier
Oktoberfest is back. For the first time since the pandemic began, the annual festival is returning to the Theresienwiese in Munich. The event is a larger-than-life spectacle of supersized beer...
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Fundamentals #125 — Villages x Little Earth Project Homegrown English Lager
I am writing this at a brand new desk, so fresh out of the flatpack it still smells of freshly sawn wood and musty cardboard. The desk sits in what is...
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Fundamentals #122 — St Mars of the Desert Làska Pils
According to Sheffield brewery St Mars of the Desert, Làska means love in Czech. It’s also the name of its latest lager, and trust me when I say this lager...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Roast Salmon with Spring Vegetables and Wild Garlic Aioli and Donzoko Noble Fabric Export Lager
Recently, I visited a greengrocer to pick up some basics. I found myself lingering over the vegetables, feeling covetous: the ruby bunches of radishes, the broad beans swelling in their pods,...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Caramelised Shallot and Tomato Pasta with Anchovies and Brick Brewery Dunkel
One of my favourite Instagram accounts belongs to my friend Katie. At @nytfortea, she reviews New York Times Cooking’s vegetarian (or veggie-adjacent) recipes, including star ratings, tweaks and overall impressions. The...
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Fundamentals #115 — Utopian Doppelbock Strong Lager
For the last few years, beer folks like myself – assorted writers, bloggers, podcasters and influencers, not to mention retailers like HB&B – have been trying to make lager happen....
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The Big 2021 #HBBAdvent Mega Thread!
#HBBAdvent Beer 24: Newbarns Barrel Aged Plain Dark Beer Strong Export Stout IT'S CHRISTMAS! HAVE A BLOODY GOOD ONE, Y'ALL, WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING, HOWEVER YOU CAN. WE LOVE YOU XXX...
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Fundamentals #104 — Brevnovský Benedict 12º Czech Pale Lager
Something I struggle with is when people tell me they don’t like Czech lagers because they taste like diacetyl. For the uninitiated, diacetyl is a substance created by yeast during...
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Fundamentals #103 — Newbarns Haná Helles Lager
I experienced a moment of immense disappointment the other weekend. I was in Leeds, and the day before I had (somewhat trepidatiously, due to the ongoing pandemic) enjoyed my first proper session at a...
