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 #124 — Full Circle Brew Co Half Nelson IPA
I love it when breweries kick on, especially when this involves releasing a beer that comes out of nowhere and knocks my little cotton socks off. One brewery to do...
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Fundamentals #123 — Duckpond x Little Rain Guava Jelly Gose
Every so often I encounter a beer that challenges my own logic. In my book, Modern British Beer, I devised a philosophy I call the Broad Spectrum of Joy in which I pose that...
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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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Fundamentals #120 — Burnt Mill Get The Onyx West Coast IPA
Bitterness is one of the most enjoyable, and most crucial, elements in beer. In my opinion, anyway. When implemented correctly, bitterness sends a signal to your brain, telling you that...
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Fundamentals #119 - Holy Goat Dragonaut Tropical Sour
Serious question: where have all the brett beers been hiding? Time was, about six or seven years ago, that you couldn’t move for small breweries releasing their latest bretted beer...
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Fundamentals #118 — Lambiek Fabriek Juicy & Wild Muscar-Elle
I got myself in a spot of bother on Twitter recently. It’s something that admittedly happens with a certain regularity, due to my acerbic sense of humour, and the fact...
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Fundamentals #116 — Sureshot Bring Me The Head of John the Accountant Double IPA
The term “nature is healing” has perhaps been a tad overused during the past couple of years – although the other week, a new brewery opened in Manchester, which after...
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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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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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Fundamentals #113 – Fierce x New Zealand Beer Collective Hokey Pokey Stout
I’m someone you could describe as being highly Kiwi-adjacent. My partner of the past 13 years is a proud New Zealander, and HB&B supremos Jen and Glenn also hail from there,...
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Fundamentals 112 - Alpha Delta Xevza Fresh Hopped Pale
I awoke on New Year’s Day this year with a strange, slightly unfamiliar sensation in the pit of my stomach, one that took me a few moments to put my finger...
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Fundamentals #111 – Wiper & True Hard Shake Barrel-Aged Imperial Milk Stout
Maybe it’s complacency, pandemic-induced anxiety or just plain laziness, but lately I’ve haven’t been putting in enough effort to fully explore the wealth of interesting beer being produced in the...
