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

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

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

The Stocky Beer Fest is my favourite of the festival calendar

This weekend saw the Eurovision Song Contest on the telly.   So what's that got to do with beer?   Well, I got a beer each from loads of different European countries and had a t

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Scotlandⁱ can grow barley but not hops, whilst England can grow both¹.   This combined with the English historically putting a large tax on exported hops meant that the Scottish

The following beers are typical examples of beers from the Southⁱ of England;

Badger Original Aleⁱ - a brown, malty ale.

The following beers are typical examples of beers from the Northⁱ of England;

Timothy Taylor Landlord - a pale ale with much hoppiness and bitterness.