The Beer Lover's Table: Esquites Nachos and Yonder Pink Grapefruit Paloma
This might not be the ideal moment to admit that I am not a fan of summer. Or at least, I am not a fan of this summer. Multi-week, record-breaking heatwaves...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Halloumi, Tomato & Saffron Aioli Sandwiches with Tilquin Petite Gueuze
It simply isn’t summer until you’ve had a tomato sandwich. The tomatoes at this time of year feel as precious as jewels, glowing with juice and vitality, tasting of sun...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Marinated Tofu, Sashimi & Yuzu Edamame with Donzoko Radler Yuzu
I reached a point, deep into London’s third heatwave of the summer, when I could no longer stomach the idea of hot food. After eating scrambled eggs and toast, I...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Chai-Spiced Apple and Plum Crumble with Great Beyond Brewing Co The Raspberry Incident
I have a lot of feelings about apple crumble. It probably sounds funny, but as a child raised in the US – land of the apple pie à la mode...
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Fundamentals #131 — Pastore Blood Peach Waterbeach Weisse
I confess, I don’t drink a lot of fruit sour beers. I do, however, enjoy the term “fruit sour” if you’ll allow me to explain. It’s been very enjoyable observing the return of some...
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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 #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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The Beer Lover's Table: Lemon and Almond Waffles with Cardamom Maple Whipped Cream and Gipsy Hill Squashed Peach Bellini Sour
If there’s anything I dread more than January’s arrival – its short, gloomy days; its long, cold nights; the lingering post-party malaise – it’s the annual Dry January discourse that...
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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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The Beer Lover's Table: Southeast Asian Crab Cakes and Urbanaut Horopito and Kawakawa Gose
There’s a genre of food that I can’t help but categorise as “restaurant cooking”. It’s not because those dishes – the category also includes French onion soup, beef Wellington and...
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Fundamentals #81 — Pastore Brewing & Blending Tropicale Acido
October is a month that encompasses both change and the need for greater balance and stability. The drawing in of the nights, colder, wetter days, and leaves fading to ochre...
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Fundamentals #74 — Double-Barrelled The Big Fruit Heist Fruited Kettle Sour
What’s in a name? For many producers of our favourite food and drink, from the winemakers of the French provinces to the cheese-makers of Italy, nomenclature is power. Try calling...
