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I love food. I love beer, and I really love the two together. Beer and food pairing is a brilliant world of flavour opportunity. Truly remarkable culinary experiences can be discovered with an open and experimental mindset. Sometimes these pairings work because just how unexpected they are. There is a real joy to be found…

On the 16th December 2019 I left work two hours early, drove 120 miles, stayed overnight in a particularly cheap and grotty hotel, and then drove home in the morning for work again. I did this all to drink five thimbles of beer. The beers in question weren’t the latest hype DIPA’s though, or rare…

Christmas has been and gone and we are now in the cold and dark of January. Let’s not be coy here, January sucks for pub operators. It’s never been the easiest of months, but once the concept of ‘dry January’ became ingrained into the mainstream it is now, generally, outright terrible. To combat this, there…

It has been an impossible story to miss in recent weeks. The UK is running out of Guinness. Diageo have cited huge consumer demand as the reason. They are ‘proactively’ managing supply in order to try and keep the situation under control. At first this seemed like it might be a scarcity sales tactic. But…

It is well documented that Guinness is having ‘a moment’. Splitting the G is now a national pastime. The black stuff is currently the best selling beer in the UK on trade by value. Demand for Guinness is so high right now that Diageo have reported a shortage of supply in the UK. Taps may…

It is our weekly ritual. On Thursday evenings we meet for a game of squash. Fourty-five minutes of intense, competitive physicality; repeatedly hitting a small black ball against a wall, as hard as possible. Exercising our bodies and exorcising the frustrations of daily life. We are an even match and both give it our all.…