It’s the July edition of The Session, kindly hosted by trailblazer and 2023 Beer Writer of the Year David Jesudason. He will be publishing all the submissions on his website here and I’m honoured to be included. The topic this month is PUB FOOD and I present to you a three minute read on a topic close to my stomach: […]
“Drink Fresh”, they plead. These delicate, hazy “New England” IPAs – we want them at their best, and the people who brew them say we need to drink ’em now or forever hold our peace. But how much difference does time really make? Is this a marketing ploy to get you to drink fast and buy young?
It’s hop harvest season and anyone within a ten mile radius of a hop farm will be able to smell it. For the rest of us, which, let’s face it, is most of us, it’s up to our imaginations, aided by sticking our noses into a freshly poured pale ale. Earlier this summer, however, I found myself in Seattle on […]
A question as old as the city itself. The answer, weirdly enough, is the same as it would have been 400 years ago: Sort Of, But You Have To Be Careful.
While almost every brewery in London does have outdoor space, these are breweries with a slightly more curated “beer garden” feel as opposed to being in a car park, regardless of how amazing the beer might be (Pressure Drop, we’re looking at you).
Oh Dalston. It’s loved, it’s hated. The Dalston drag from Junction station running north for half a mile has undergone transformations befitting a participant on Queer Eye. Stoke Newington, about 10 minutes north on foot, is the bourgeois bohemian paradise that has passers-by stopping outside every Estate Agent, looking longingly at the listings as if they could afford one.
Not gonna lie, before doing this we thought Deptford was in Surrey or somewhere. Now we’re really glad it’s not.
What’s the max number of venues a crawl can consist of before it turns into an all out holiday?