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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG, THE CORNWALL BLOG | Posted by darren | 05.16.2013 | 0 Comments
In the last week of May, the St Ives Beer Festival takes place in Cornwall, organised by the county’s CAMRA branch. It’s not the biggest beer festival in the country, but’s it’s still a good size — more than 60 beers fill one wall of the town’s Guildhall, and there’ll be some cider, perry, bottled ales
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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG, THE CORNWALL BLOG | Posted by darren | 05.03.2013 | 1 Comment
Sometimes you find the right beer in the right place at the right time. Last night the first ever craft beer festival in St Ives kicked off at the Hub bar, on The Wharf. On the best day of the year, overlooking blue sea and expansive beach, Richard Boon launched new beer taps — in the wall
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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG, THE CORNWALL BLOG | Posted by darren | 04.30.2013 | 0 Comments
Harbour Brewing Co taps takeover at the HAND Bar, Falmouth When I attended the Cornwall selection meeting for CAMRA’s 2014 edition of the Good Beer Guide back in February (yes, there’s that long a lead in before the book is published in September) the most contentious part of the evening centred around Falmouth: who to
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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG | Posted by darren | 03.13.2013 | 1 Comment
The launch of City of Ale 2012. Picture: Denise Bradley I’m lucky enough to drink in a very good pub in Cornwall, described in the Good Beer Guide as a beer drinker’s Mecca. There was, until recently, another pub around the corner, which eventually became delicensed and is now, sadly, waiting to be turned into
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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG, THE CORNWALL BLOG | Posted by darren | 03.11.2013 | 0 Comments
A crisp, sunny winter afternoon, a chill in the air despite the approach of spring, so what better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than in the company of bloggers of this parish (okay, the neighbouring one) Boak and Bailey and a few pub regulars at The Star, Crowlas, putting some strong dark brews to
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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG, THE CORNWALL BLOG | Posted by darren | 02.25.2013 | 3 Comments
Left to right on the Rebel Brewing Co stand are Guillermo Alvarez, Claire Pumfrey and Mark Bishop Friday morning in Shoreditch, east London. Gentle snow is falling and there’s a chill breeze. I walk past some pubs bearing the Truman’s name and, peering through windows, spot the beers of the same name on bars. Truman’s Runner
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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG | Posted by darren | 02.19.2013 | 0 Comments
The new Waen Brewery website is up and running, and jolly fine it looks, too. burst* design of Brighton have done the makeover and it’s all about clear design and simplicity essentially. Sue Hayward and John Martin have built up a popular Welsh brewery in just four short years, garnering some awards along the way,
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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG | Posted by darren | 01.20.2013 | 0 Comments
Martyn Cornell’s amending of the 20 most influential beers list was highlighted in last week’s blog of blogs, but on his Appellation Beer site Stan Hieronymus takes issue with the inclusion of Russian River Blind Pig IPA not being questioned. There seems to be some confusion about which Blind Pig beer was really one of the
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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG | Posted by darren | 01.14.2013 | 0 Comments
Bloggers collectively hung over after the Christmas and New Year excesses? Not a bit of it. They’ve been very busy. Drinking, yes, but there’s also been a lot of thought going on. Mark Dredge, for instance, has been re-inventing the wheel. The flavour wheel, that is. He’s pretty pleased with the outcome and it is
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Posted in THE BEER TODAY BLOG | Posted by darren | 01.09.2013 | 0 Comments
Back in August last year, news came from a company called Brew Invest that it had purchased the rights to make the famous Thomas Hardy’s Ale. There was little more information, least of all where the beer would be produced. Being a good hack, I sent a note back. “Would I be correct in assuming
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Adrian Tierney-Jones
