There’s a saying that in order to be irreplaceable one must also be different.
We’re not entirely sure who said it. But when it comes to the serious business of beer, it’s a motto we’re happy to drink to.
Historically, Britain can stake its claim alongside Belgium, the Czech Republic and Germany as one of the most influential brewing countries in the world.
But despite the influence of British brewing being profound around the globe, we now import twice as much as we export.
And with American hop-driven mass produced lagers being imported in their droves there’s a sense that the ‘British’ is getting lost from the beer.
There’s one area where truly traditional British brewing still survives – hope-fully soon to once again really thrive – and that is cask ale.
If you were ever looking for a beer type that required the most precise and careful handling, that was resistant to any form of mass scale-up, that balks at being bottled, that is sensitive to the environment – and only remains in its most perfect form for days – then cask ale is it.
Cask ale was already suffering at the hands of its cooler-sounding, easier-to-handle counterparts before Covid came along to give it a good old kicking. But there will never be any replacement for the gold standard of beer, writes Beer Drive-Thru Director Dave Turner – as he says it’s now up to all of us to pull together …
If we told you it was all about keeping it clean, the perfect head, and the angle of your dangle, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d drifted off our topic of expertise. But, fret not, dear beer drinkers – of course we’re talking about the art of pouring the perfect pint of fresh beer. From …
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If the latest Government press conference telling us all we’re locked in our homes for the foreseeable has done anything, it’s made us all want to reach for a beer. While there may still be a handful of commendable souls attempting to go ‘dry’ for January, the rest of us have decided that a decent …
No longer does the phrase ‘craft ale’ throw up images of elderly men in flat caps cradling pints in wood-panelled, floral-carpeted pubs.
INDEPENDENT brewery Pitchfork Ales, based in Somerset, is set to score a world first next month when they host the very first cask ale virtual beer festival to start the early May Day Bank Holiday weekend. The ‘Armchair Beer Festival’ has been created out of the need for a countrywide lockdown seeing events cancelled and …
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We’re super excited to announce that award winning journalist and beer writer, Adrian Tierney-Jones will be joining us on the festival live stream on the evening of 8th May! Adrian will be talking all things beer with our brewer and taking part in an interactive Q&A with you, our wonderful festival guests! Adrian wrote the …
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Today, we launch the worlds first real ale virtual beer festival! Friday 8th May at 7pm, the festival is open and you can enjoy a hiigh quality range of beers right in your lounge whilst enjoying the live stream music. We’re able to do this by putting together a carefully constructed plan of freshly tapping …
Weston Pride says ‘Cheers!’ to its own craft beer ‘Weston Pride’ returns to Grove Park at the end of this month for the sixth year running and for the first time ever, the event will feature a range of craft beers as well as its very own exclusively branded craft beer. ‘#LoveWins’ is a unique …
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