DM on beer -

How beer is made in one paragraph

DM — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:38:18 +0000

Barley is encouraged to begin germination to convert its starchy energy store into sugars ready for use. The barley is then ground up and steeped in hot water to extract the sugars.&nbs

What is the best Scottish beer available south of the border?

DM — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:08:55 +0100

* Arran Blonde * Harviestoun Schiehallion * Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted * Deuchars IPA * Atlas Lattitude

Bad Pub Practice

DM — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:30:32 +0100

This article brilliantly describes my thoughts on pubs offering discounts on flavoured alcoholic drinks (sometimes beer flavoured). Blackpool was the first place to discourage drinks pr

Drinking for girls

DM — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:16:26 +0100

There have been a few articles about beer recently in the media about beer drinking for women;

The Vine Inn, St Helens, Isle of Wight

DM — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:51:30 +0100

An unpretentious pub just across from the village green making it a nice place to sup a pint on a hot day. Limited drinking space outside. Clearly a local pub with bands on

Crab and Lobster Inn, Bembridge, Isle of Wight

DM — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:41:42 +0100

A nice enough pub with 3 real ales on, 2 from the local Goddard's Brewery. I had a Fuggle-Dee-Dum from Goddards and it was lovely. A scorcher of a day and walking around the

Not going to the Great British Beer Festival

DM — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:39:47 +0100

I have the opportunity to go to the GBBFⁱ this year again but I've decided not to. For the last two years I've organised a works corporate entertainment day on the Thursday of the festiv

The Fat Cat Bar, Freshwater, Isle of Wight

DM — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:23:41 +0100

A lovely pub for summer drinking. Two real ales on tap & both ones I hadn't tried before; Everards Hazy Daze was lovely - very much like a German weissebeer - hazy, with a ta

Vale of Clwyd Beer Festival

DM — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:57:25 +0100

This is such a brilliant idea that it deserves reporting. Seven pubs in Northⁱ Wales got together and had a beer festival on Saturday 19th July 2008 with a bus running between them until

Can anyone find a more pathetic branding of a beer as "IPA"?

DM — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:27:26 +0100

Harveys India Pale Aleⁱ is 3.2% alcohol and has very, very little hop character. There is a caramel - malt flavour but not much else. An IPAⁱ is supposed to have a pronounced

Sainsbury's to sell more premium beers

DM — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:29:34 +0100

Talking Retail have a story on their website that Sainsbury's have looked at 100 different premium beers and will choose 15 to go into their stores in August 2008. This can only be good

High & Mighty

DM — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:19:17 +0100

Although the name and label of the beer sets high standards - "High & Mighty Beer of the Gods" - it lives up to them. Very much like a delicate pilsner but brewed in an al

London Pale Ale

DM — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:08:29 +0100

This beer has the American Cascade hop taste that I really love in spades. Very much like an American pale ale (Sierra Nevada Pale Aleⁱ, Brooklyn Pale Ale etc.) in that it has loads of h

Blonde

Mark_the_brewer — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:47:16 +0100

Thankfully unavailable in the UKⁱ

Indiana Pale Ale

Mark_the_brewer — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:34:49 +0100

If I'd bought this at a beer festival, it would have reinforced all those prejudices that people have about us and the beer we drink. Tastes like mushy peas. And not in a good way.&nbsp