Nothinginsomethingparticular

A few miscellaneous thoughts, not long enough for separate posts but too substantial for Twitter. Firstly, Marble. What’s going on there at the moment? They seem to have gone bottle crazy. The local CAMRA mag mentioned that they’d bottled a Tripel and a Weizen (the latter brewed at 5% and bottled in a 500 ml [...]

EPA! EPA! EPA!

Given that you’re interested in beer, and given that it’s 2011, I probably don’t need to tell you much about Summer Lightning. What a very fine beer that is – an early example of the pale and hoppy style, and such a good one that it won over people who didn’t even like pale and [...]

It Started With a Dobber

In the spirit of Private Eye, I’ve got an apology to make. I may in the past have given the impression that pale, hoppy beer was not my kind of thing. When I suggested that certain brewers were “taking British beer up a flowery, lemony, smoky dead end”, and made comments such as “roll on [...]