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 #4 – Tempest Mexicake Imperial Stout
When I think of chillis and Hop Burns & Black, my mind is immediately transported back to the first ever Chilli Karaoke event that HB&B supremos Jen and Glenn organised. The...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Whole Roasted Salmon and Elusive Brewing/Hop Burns & Black Bright Future Blood Orange Blossom Saison
It’s a tip I learned from a friend of mine a few years ago, and one I still prize: when having a large group over for dinner, roast salmon. The...
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Fundamentals #3 – Marble Brewery Lost Your Marbles Red Wine B.A. Forest Fruits Imperial Stout
It really feels like Manchester’s Marble Brewery has reasserted itself as one of the nation's most relevant breweries over the past few months. Not that there should ever have been...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Steak with Grapefruit Sauce and Beavertown’s Bloody Ell
There’s a lot of mythology around steak. Perhaps that’s why many home cooks leave it to the professionals, who tend to harp on about wood varieties and have very strict...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Spring Orecchiette and Cloudwater Bergamot Sour
I look forward to asparagus season like a fan whose favourite band is about to drop a long-awaited new album. I will travel across the city in search of a...
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Never Going to Give You Hops - HB&B meets Rick Astley
In 1987, I, like most of the pop-loving world, played Rick Astley’s mega hits to death on my trusty Walkman. I like to think I’d bought the album but to...
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Fundamentals #2 – The Kernel India Double Porter Citra Ella
When it comes to darker beers such as stout or porter, it would be obvious to focus on the ingredient that almost always provides them with most of their flavour:...
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Fundamentals #1 – Redchurch Urban Farmhouse On Skins: Plums
Welcome to the first instalment of Fundamentals – a bi-weekly deep dive into the story of the ingredients behind our favourite beers. Writing about why we like a particular beer...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Prawn and Mango Curry and Siren Hop Candy DIPA
Double IPAs may be one of my favourite styles (if you’re tuned into the zeitgeist, odds are they’re one of yours, too). But when a friend recently asked if I’d...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Orbit Nico Köln-Style Lager and Spiced Chinese Dumplings
Chinese dumplings and lager: they go together like milk and cookies. Preferably a lager that’s effervescent, not too boozy, with a finishing bite of bitterness: just the thing to cut...
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No More Heroes XV – Orbit Beers Neu
“You are astronomical fans of alcohol – so welcome in” – British Sea Power, Waving Flags It’s a tough old gig being a beer geek. First they ram it down...
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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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The Beer Lover’s Table: Cloudwater IPA Citra and Lamb Chops with Wild Garlic
For anyone who follows the British craft beer scene, Cloudwater needs no introduction. The Manchester-based brewery’s releases are as coveted as H&M’s designer capsule collections, and snapped up almost as quickly. Cloudwater...
