by Darren | Sunday, July 23, 2017 | BLOG, CORNWALL BLOG
There’s an age-old tradition in my old local newspaper game of starting stories about summer events with the words: “Rain failed to dampen the spirits of visitors to…” This could be said about Verdant Brewing Co’s Little Summer Beer Bash yesterday. But not only did...
by Darren | Friday, July 7, 2017 | BEER NEWS, BLOG, CORNWALL BLOG
Gerry (right) pictured at this year’s Cornwall CAMRA AGM cutting the branch’s 40th anniversary cake, with fellow founding members Richard Cunningham (centre) and Brian Phillips It’s ironic that so many beer drinkers in Cornwall know Gerry...
by Darren | Monday, May 29, 2017 | BLOG
Photography: Portia Crossley A sunny spring evening is perfect for driving from Plymouth up to Princetown to visit the Dartmoor Brewery, and the journey across the moor is breathtaking. I’d only done it once before and that was in the dark. Now the full...
by Darren | Saturday, May 13, 2017 | BLOG, CORNWALL BLOG
It took less than an hour for one perennial question to rear its head as Cornwall CAMRA members enjoyed a tour of mild-serving pubs in Falmouth. “It’s not very dark for a mild, is it?” Oh, if I had a pound for every time. The beer in question: Rye Ruby Red (5% ABV),...
by Darren | Tuesday, March 28, 2017 | BLOG
Twitter is outraged. And you really don’t want to outrage Twitter if you value your reputation. I talk, of course, of BrewDog and the Birmingham craft beer bar now to be known as The Wolf, which is now looking at a healthy upturn in its takings this week thanks to...
by Darren | Friday, March 10, 2017 | BLOG, CORNWALL BLOG
Beers made with foraged foods and herbs. And historic fruits, like Cornish apple variety Queenie, and the famous Kea plums, from near Truro. These are the ingredients from a local wild larder that make Stuart Woodman’s Wild Ales stand out from the crowd, and they’re...
by Darren | Thursday, March 9, 2017 | BLOG, CORNWALL BLOG
I’ve been pretty convinced for some time that the best beer and food match I’ve come across is fish and chips and St Austell Brewery’s coriander noted wheat beer, Clouded Yellow. We’d set up a beer festival, fish and chips had been sent out for and there happened to...
by Darren | Thursday, February 9, 2017 | BLOG, CORNWALL BLOG
Unlike some of you lucky people up the line in London and the big regional cities, the words ‘tap takeover’ appear to us as a rare beacon of opportunity down here in Cornwall, so I was eager to hop on one of our new wifi- and USB-enabled double deckers last night for...
by Darren | Tuesday, January 24, 2017 | BLOG
Yesterday, I made Italian bean casserole from a Delicious magazine recipe. Always goes down well, this, a proper winter warmer, and also gives me the chance to tell my son, who asks what’s for dinner: “Bean stew.” “I don’t care what it’s been – what is it now?” he...
by Darren | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 | BLOG, CORNWALL BLOG
I make no secret of being a Black Flag Brewery fan, so I was particularly disappointed when I couldn’t make it to a meet the brewer night last week with Nick and Ben Sales, the surfing-mad brothers behind the venture. The good news: I found myself at the event venue...
by Darren | Friday, September 16, 2016 | BLOG
Apparently it’s time to sober up, in the name of charity. This month it’s the Dryathlon, with abstinence in aid of Cancer Research, then next month it’s Go Sober for October to boost Macmillan Cancer Support. It would be churlish to begrudge either charity much-needed...
by Darren | Wednesday, August 24, 2016 | BLOG, CORNWALL BLOG
Kelp Bakery’s Coastal Brewery Kernow Imperial Stout Bread Neighbours. Everybody needs good neighbours. Even when you’re in a brewery on an industrial estate. No, especially when you’re in a brewery on an industrial estate. As you may know, Beer Today...
