Mine’s a light and bitter!

Zak writes: There are a lot of naysayers who object purely on principle to paying £10 for a bottle (or a pint) of beer. I’m not exactly sure why that is – it would be easy to say that it’s jealousy, but I think there’s something more fundamental going on. I think it’s the idea [...]

The tint that angers the beast

In my now-defunct bitter tasting notes, I reviewed Highgate’s Red Rogue as follows: A ‘red’ bitter is one of my favourite styles, and this was a good one. Not much sourness, but a big hit of tannic bitterness in the middle of your mouth, backed by a good wallop of malt. A big flavour all [...]

Shifting the gear

(Crossposted from 52 Folk Songs and based on comments posted at fRoots.) The Indigo album marks the first quarter of the 52fs year: 13 songs down, 39 to go. With that in mind, here’s a quick retrospective post on the project. Songs posted so far: 34 Traditional songs: 22 Contemporary songs: 12 (authors: Peter Bellamy, [...]