In the last week two stories demonstrated the inexorable rise of craft beer. First of all we heard the news of Duvel Moortgat‘s “partnership” with California’s Firestone Walker Brewing Company, then came the news that from 5 September The Kernel Brewery will cease selling beer to be consumed on site. Read More
Three newspaper articles published recently raise the spectre of the demise of pub culture in this country. The first was this by Tony Naylor writing in The Guardian, lamenting the end of the “quick pint”, prompted by a statistic claiming 90% of visits to the pub now involve having a meal. Read More
The Beer O’Clock Show held a live recording at Hop Burns and Black last Thursday at which we collectively reviewed two beers and a mead from a new London meadery. Yes, that’s right, fucking mead! What times we live in. With the promise of an evening of beer and revelry I couldn’t wait to get out of work, so at 4pm I hightailed it to Brewdog Shoreditch to meet Steve from the aforementioned Beer O’Clock Show. Read More