The sights and sounds of Vietnam’s capital sometimes sit unfairly in the shadow of its Southern equivalent, Hồ Chí Minh City (Sàigòn), and when it comes to craft beer that stands true too. Hanoi’s spectacular, relentless café and coffee culture is simply so ingrained that any boutique establishments are based around the beans, but that hasn’t stopped a handful of enterprising […]
Welcome to The Craft Beers of Covid Conversation, a time capsule for the ages between Joey from Beer in the City and Simon from Simon’s Pub Tour. And by the ages, we mean the past half-decade, because it is exactly five years since the first Covid lockdown started. Trauma? Yes. But we are determined to dredge up the good times […]
Welcome to the third and final part of the Craft Beer of Covid Conversation. At the end of part Two, Joey finally stopped taking Simon on tangents and was about to reveal a nostalgia-heavy brewery that is no longer with us… Read Part One here.Read Part Two here. Joey: Alright, I’ve got a good one for you. A brewery that […]
“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).
If you’re edgy you probably live here, if you’re like me then you just know it’s that weird bit of the central line that looks like an escalator.
You can also very feasibly do this whole crawl backwards (i.e. in reverse order – I do not recommend you try to walk backwards after hitting five breweries).