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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

Government documents from 1975, released under the "30-year rule" recently, reveal a plan by Labour prime minister Harold Wilson to save small breweries from takeover…

Added: Sunday, May 1st 2005

One evening last week I went out for a few drinks with reporters on the Daily Mail. We toured a dozen pubs in London near…

Added: Friday, April 1st 2005

In 30 years of writing about beer I have come to agree more and more with the proposition put forward by the radical economist Ernst…

Added: Friday, April 1st 2005

Beer-drinking circles were buzzing recently when Wetherspoons announced it was launching the famous Belgian beer De Koninck on draught throughout its 600-strong pub estate. De…

Added: Tuesday, March 1st 2005

I met Nick Stafford at a beer launch last week and, to my surprise, he said he felt small brewers needed to be more innovative.…

Added: Tuesday, March 1st 2005