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It's a journey into brewing history: almost hidden from view among modern production vessels at Greene King's Bury St Edmund's brewery are some wooden vessels…

Added: Saturday, September 1st 2007

One of the most fascinating beers in British brewing is Greene King's Strong Suffolk, an example of an 18th century 'country beer', stored in wooden…

Added: Wednesday, August 1st 2007

Lager is often described as the beer of the industrial age. The widely held view is that cold fermentation and storage - lagerung in German…

Added: Sunday, July 1st 2007

They say who dares, wins. It must be one of the most courageous changes of strategy ever by a major brewing company - the move…

Added: Friday, June 1st 2007

It was a classic case of putting my money where my mouth is. I've been writing about beer for 30 years and it was time…

Added: Friday, June 1st 2007

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