New look for beer? Really? 10 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am

This'll be copyright the very lovely Tring Brewery You may have seen something about this recently: "It is believed that Tring is the first brewery in the UK to use applied colour psychology, and to ...

On still having change for the tram home. 2 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm

Of course, when I was a lad...etc. Data here. Tho' 2/3 of people believe that drinking out is too expensive... And according to research by Mintel, £4.4bn a year less money is being spent in pubs n...

So, is it a bubble? 29 Jul 2013 | 10:21 pm

Well, I don't know. It's easy to see a bubble in retrospect, but rather harder before the fact. It does look like there's a steep climb in new starts without any real market justification (that I can...

Truth in Advertising. 24 Jul 2013 | 07:33 pm

Lest we forget... BrewDog is a post Punk apocalyptic mother fu*ker of a craft brewery. Say goodbye to the corporate beer whores crazy for power and world domination. Swear allegiance to the uncompro....

A musing on the latest Brewdog Crowdfunding effort. 3 Jul 2013 | 09:04 pm

Beer competitions 18 Mar 2013 | 05:34 pm

The subject of judging at beer competitions came up on that twitter again.  There are valid concerns about the credibility of these things which get raised from time to time, as well as the broader qu...

The price of beer. 15 Mar 2013 | 09:06 pm

Beer's not a particularly "cheap" product. Indeed, there's a case to be made that it's perhaps the most expensive way that an alcoholic beverage is routinely produced. The ingredients are costly, the ...

Yay Us! Again. 10 Jan 2013 | 11:12 pm

More lovely awards, this time "taste cumbria" Cumbria Life Food and Drink awards. I'll expand on this later.

Cask Vs Keg. Summary of findings. 29 Dec 2012 | 09:28 pm

OK? In other news, I've invented "Kask", or possibly "Ceg". It involves a keg, a handpump and an optional cask breather / aspirator.

Oh! Xmas tree! 11 Dec 2012 | 11:20 pm

Not Brewers of Europe HQ Went to Belgium t'other day for the "Celebration of Beers from NW England" thingy at the Brewers of Europe house in Brussels. One of the best free Eurocrat piss-ups of the fe...