Beer With Tim – a beer blog by Tim Hickford

Top ten tips for giving beer or beer related gifts at Christmas

I have recently agreed to write a regular column for Vale Life Magazine, on the pubs, breweries and beers of…

There are brazen spectres who haunt the villages and towns across England. Ghosts of revelry writ large and high, swinging…

I’m sitting in a prime seat in the Cross Keys, a popular ale pub in the town centre of Thame,…

On Saturdays I talk. I talk a lot, and almost all of it is about beer. I run three brewery…

I love food. I love beer, and I really love the two together. Beer and food pairing is a brilliant…

On the 16th December 2019 I left work two hours early, drove 120 miles, stayed overnight in a particularly cheap…

Christmas has been and gone and we are now in the cold and dark of January. Let’s not be coy…

It has been an impossible story to miss in recent weeks. The UK is running out of Guinness. Diageo have…

It is well documented that Guinness is having ‘a moment’. Splitting the G is now a national pastime. The black…