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'Ambassador of Beer' may be over-stating my role in life but I can lay claim to have built good relations between Rodenbach, the famous sour…

Added: Monday, September 1st 2008

When German troops occupied the monastery of Achel during World War One they observed the conventions of war. As the monastery straddles the border between…

Added: Friday, August 1st 2008

To accompany my feature article on the Trappist beers of Achel, I thought this was a good moment to reintroduce the 'Famous Five' beers brewed…

Added: Friday, August 1st 2008

There's a small beer revolution going on in one of the remotest parts of England. The village of Hesket Newmarket in Cumbria has a bus…

Added: Sunday, June 1st 2008

I pulled the first pint in the Royal Standard in Derby last week. At a time when pubs are shutting up shop at an alarming…

Added: Sunday, June 1st 2008

The Czech Republic has two, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland have one each yet from June this year Britain - one of the world's…

Added: Tuesday, April 1st 2008

Fuller's Vintage Ale (8.5%), first brewed in 1997, has become one of the most-talked about British beers, an iconic ale treated as seriously as fine…

Added: Tuesday, April 1st 2008

In the new edition of the Good Beer Guide I heralded a "golden age" for beer. How do I square this with the report on…

Added: Saturday, December 1st 2007

As a result of protests from consumers and the people of the small town of Hoegaarden in Belgium, InBev has backed down and saved a…

Added: Monday, October 1st 2007

The oldest Rauchbier brewery in Bamberg is the Christian Merz Spezial brewpub on Obere K

Added: Saturday, September 1st 2007