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The dread name of Watneys can still strike fear and loathing into an older generation of beer lovers. The giant London brewer wreaked havoc in…

Added: Tuesday, May 1st 2007

Those of us that chip away at the coalface labelled "beer" constantly stress that our preferred form of alcohol deserves as much attention and respect…

Added: Sunday, April 1st 2007

Alastair Hook was tempted to call his brewery The Home for Abused Beer Styles but settled instead for Meantime. It was the natural pun-in-cheek name…

Added: Thursday, March 1st 2007

Choice for Irish beer drinkers is gaining pace as more and more small breweries challenge the hegemony of Guinness and its subsidiaries.Beers from both breweries…

Added: Thursday, February 1st 2007

It's a long, steep clamber up from the railway station at Beersel to the small town with its moated castle, built early in the 14th…

Added: Monday, January 1st 2007

The shock news that sales of Guinness have slumped by eight or nine per cent in the Irish Republic was one of those "end…

Added: Wednesday, November 1st 2006

Fergus McMullen tells his teenage children that if they take over from him at the family brewery when he retires they will "have a great…

Added: Friday, September 1st 2006

We all remember the summer of football fever as the World Cup dominated our screens, and a cry (in many languages) was heard around the…

Added: Tuesday, August 1st 2006

More than 66,000 people attended CAMRA's Great British Beer Festival in London between 1 and 5 August - close to 20,000 up on last year's…

Added: Tuesday, August 1st 2006

When I told a fellow journalist I was off to Blackburn to visit Thwaites, he raised an eyebrow and muttered, "Ah, the sleeping giant." I've…

Added: Tuesday, August 1st 2006