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Are British beer drinkers afraid of challenging flavours, hop bitterness in particular? The question is prompted by the recent news concerning the Meantime Brewery in…

Added: Friday, July 1st 2005

Somewhere deep in the bureaucracy of the European Union there is a unit composed of highly-paid people whose job is to think up the most…

Added: Friday, July 1st 2005

Is the British brewing industry on the verge of yet another major upheaval? Wolverhampton & Dudley has paid

Added: Friday, July 1st 2005

Bristol lost its historic George

Added: Wednesday, June 1st 2005

PIERRE Celis has been so badly mauled by global brewers that it was good to find him sprightly and cheerful at his home in the…

Added: Wednesday, June 1st 2005

Lager beer, most of it a pale pastiche of the golden beers brewed in the Czech Republic and Germany, accounts for more than 90% of…

Added: Wednesday, June 1st 2005

Have you had a Mackeson recently? The answer is probably no, as it's a beer that is hard to find these days. A trawl of…

Added: Wednesday, June 1st 2005

Signs outside the Wellington Hotel in the Horfield district of Bristol a couple of months ago announced "Beer Seminar with Roger Protz". Even though I've…

Added: Sunday, May 1st 2005

I sometimes feel that a song of yesteryear, You Always Hurt the One You Love, should be the anthem of beer lovers of the anorak…

Added: Sunday, May 1st 2005

Can Jennings survive? The takeover bid by Wolverhampton & Dudley has been accepted by the Cumbrian brewer, so there is little point in manning the…

Added: Sunday, May 1st 2005