Posts by Glynn Davis
Providing hope for wet-led pubs
Over the years my attendance at trade events in Olympia has traditionally ended with the rewardof a couple of pints of well kept beer in the welcoming Warwick Arms on the very unwelcomingWarwick Road. And so it was the same journey I took last week, but this time I was met with themajority of the…
Read MoreNuptials down the local
Returning to the Butcher’s Hook & Cleaver pub in Smithfield Market in the City of London last week for a business lunch brought back many happy memories as it served as the venue where my wife and I held our wedding reception almost 20 years ago to the day. Sitting in almost the same spot…
Read MoreGood brews from the beer industry
Beer is increasingly doing good for society and the work of The Good Beer Co for both The Big Jubilee Lunch and Thank You Day, set for June 5, will take things to another level through the nationwide availability of the specially brewed Thank Brew beer. The company initially began working closely with Fergus Fitzgerald,…
Read MoreThe Story of Bass – the story of British beer
While holidaying in Brugge on a family break over Easter it was both an opportunity to sample some of the world’s still-great beers and read about one of the world’s once-great brewers with a copy of The Story of Bass. Such has been the influence and scope of the Bass business over its multi-century existence…
Read MoreBeer Travels with Adrian Tierney-Jones
Early doors: it’s just gone midday and in the midst of the bustling centre of York there is only one place for me to go — a pub. So there I am outside the House of The Trembling Madness, a place I have heard and read about and whose name is also rather unique. From…
Read MoreThe City is the place to be
When working in the City of London some years back, my lunchtimes typically involved a short stroll down Fenchurch Street to the East India Arms for a few pints of Young’s Ordinary Bitter. I was certainly not the only person with this near-daily routine, because the small one-bar pub would be packed from before noon…
Read MoreBeer Travels with Adrian Tierney-Jones
There is a glorious dichotomy about beer. On one hand it is an agricultural product, and we can imagine fields of golden barley swaying in a gentle breeze and serried rows of lime-green hops in regimented lines somewhere in rural England. On the other hand, the process in which beer is made is firmly industrial,…
Read MoreQ&A with Lakedown Brewing Co. co-founder Jamie Daltrey
Beer Insider sits down with Jamie Daltrey, co-founder of Lakedown Brewing Co., to ask him about his brewery & beers along with a bit of music and his dad. 1. Why launch yet another brewery and more beers onto the market? Our family farm is at the heart of the brewery’s story, and it sits…
Read MoreThe party’s sadly over for some smaller breweries
Brewery numbers in the UK have doubled over the past decade, which comes on top of a similar growth rate experienced in the previous 10 years. This equates to a net addition of almost 1,500 new breweries between 2001 and 2021, taking the total to 1,902, according to The Good Beer Guide. This has been…
Read MoreLet’s hear it for cask ales
Something very unusual happened at my local pub The Great Northern Railway Tavern this week. Among the constantly changing 20-plus beers on draught the two most interesting brews were rarely available hand-pulled cask ales from London-based Signature Brew and Deya from Cheltenham. In the four years since Fuller’s purchased the pub it has been fully…
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