Wine & Food Killers: Aguachile Two Ways and Quarticello Despina 2023
At its best, summer cooking requires almost no cooking at all. Deep into yet another heatwave, the only things worth eating right now are crisp, fresh, zesty or chilled. But...
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Wine & Food Killers: Aguachile Two Ways and Quarticello Despina 2023
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Fundamentals #33 — Wylam Child in Time Cryo Hop IPA
One of the most remarkable feats I’ve witnessed in U.K. craft beer over the past couple years is the transformation of Newcastle’s Wylam Brewery from regional stalwart into one of...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Falafel Pita Sandwiches & Abbeydale Brewery Huckster NEIPA
Late last year, while sheltering from a Philadelphia snowstorm, I ate the best falafel of my life. Incongruous, but true. The setting was Goldie — a restaurant which is owned...
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Fundamentals #31 — Half Acre Beer Co Tuna Extra Pale Ale
Turns out there are two kinds of Tuna available in a can. The first is an always-handy sandwich meat — perfect whipped up with an over-zealously lobbed ball of mayo,...
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Fundamentals #30 — Two Roads Tanker Truck Sauvignon Blanc Gose
The worlds of wine and beer can often feel very different to one another. Beer often tries to grasp at the concept of terroir, French for “of the earth,” referring...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Baked Saffron Rice and Chicken (Tachin) with Whiplash Clap Hands American Wheat
There are some dishes it’s worth turning on your oven for, even in the height of summer. Tachin is one of them. I first tried, and loved, tachin - a...
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Fundamentals #29 — Beak Brewery Citra | Verbena | Nelson Sauvin IPA
A heap of breweries are boarding the haze train at the moment – next stop Juiceville USA. Fascination with modern, aromatic US hop varieties, such as Citra or Mosaic...
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Fundamentals #28 — Anspach & Hobday & Hawkes The Sour Graff
I’m enjoying watching the gentle loll of the modern cider revolution as it gracefully strides into view of beer lovers. Cider is unquestionably having a bit of a moment of...
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Our Deptford shop opens this weekend!
Deptford, we're finally ready for you (almost)! We'll be vacuuming up the dust and throwing open the doors to our Hop Burns & Shack-of-Joy this Saturday at 10am. Inside, you'll...
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Our letter to Beavertown
21 June 2018 - Today we made one of the most significant decisions in our retail careers in deciding to stop selling Beavertown, a brewery that contributes an enormous share...
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Fundamentals #27 — Fuerst Wiacek A Quick One IPA
Citra and Mosaic are my homeboys, I like hanging out with them often. I also enjoy it when they’re accompanied by pals like El Dorado, Amarillo, Nelson Sauvin and even...
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Fundamentals #32 — Schöfferhofer Grapefruit Wheat Beer Mix
You’ve probably been reminded by your parents a few times this summer that it’s been the hottest since ‘76. And yes Mum, it has been quite a summer. Not only...
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Fundamentals #26 — North Brewing Co. Transmission IPA
One of my favourite historic pieces of music television is the clip of Joy Division performing Transmission on BBC2’s Something Else back in 1979. The performance is bookended by an...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Indian-Spiced Fried Chicken Goujons with Raita and Beavertown X De La Senne Brattish Anglo-Belge Pale Ale
If I could only pick one beer to pair with food for the rest of time, I’d probably go with Brattish – a recent collaboration between Beavertown and Belgium’s De...
