Ever since I was asked why there are never any lager festivals I have thought that there should be.   Maybe the wrong crowd might show up & then turn nasty when all the beer turned ou

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

Science & technology is really Japan's kind of thing.   Okayama University sent barley grains to the International Space Station to be stored to see how they survived in space. &

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

Before the World Cup was assigned to Germanyⁱ, Anheuser Busch bought the rights to supply the official beer. This means the American Budweiser being the only beer allowed to be sold in stadiums.

If you are a large brewery selling beer internationally and want to reduce the cost off shipping a product that is mostly water across the globe, there are several options.   You can buil

This ancient standard for beer ingredients has both ensured the quality of German beers and arguably stifled innovation, leading to a small range of beer styles available.   Under the sta

Kolsch is brewed almost exclusively in Cologneⁱ (Koln to the Germans) in Germanyⁱ.   It is basically a lager brewed with top fermenting yeast like an ale, but treated in all other respects

Pilsner means "of the town of Pilsen".   Pilsen is the German name for the town to the south of Prague in the Czech Republicⁱ locally called Plzen.   It

I paid a visit to the nice beer shop in Southamptonⁱ (Bitter Virtue in Portswood) last Saturday (& met every flamin' idiot in their car on the journey, reminding me how much I don't like driving

Lagerⁱ comes with political baggage. Budweiser Budvar is championed because it is constantly attacked in courts around the world by the American giant over the trading name.