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

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

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

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

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

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

Mild ale is presicely that; ale which is less bitter - milder - that a pint of bitter.   It isn't necessarily dark, sweet, low strength or having no hop character but more often than not

Which country brews the best beer?   Since October 2006 I have kept a diary of every bottle of beer I've drunk on a spreadsheet and scored them out of five.   There are a total

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I think the drinking age should be lowered to 14 years old.   As long as its in a pub with a responsible adult in supervision.   This may not go down to well in some pubs

Barrels have been used since early Roman times as their cylindrical shape enables them to be rolled, but the bulge in the middle makes it easy to change direction whilst rolling.   They c

First of all, its not 24-hour drinking.   Hardly any pubs have 24-hour licenses (Hotels & casinos have the vast majority) and even fewer use them, so the term 24-hour drinking is only used as an emotive headline by scaremongering journalists.   Unfortunately the drip-drip-drip constant bombardment has meant that even the BBC uses the phrase.