Posts by Glynn Davis

Some years ago the organisation of a birthday drink at The Lamb pub on Lamb’s Conduit Street in London for a group of around 10 friends was a carefree process simply involving me telling them to turn up at the allotted time. I’ve a feeling that replicating the event today would be less easygoing and…

At the recent British Guild of Beer Writers’ awards and dinner I was seated next to a Belgium brewer whose sole beer was a wine-beer hybrid, which used Chardonnay grapes. These sort of mash-ups between the grape and the grain are commonplace in Italian brewing circles, but as far as I know, Viva brewery is…

Bohem Brewery hosted hop merchants Charles Faram at its North London home to exclusively use within the UK a newly developed hop Möst™ to create a unique dry-hopped lager. The collaborative brew involved Paul Corbett, MD of Charles Faram, and Jon Stringer, sales manager at Charles Faram, developing a beer with Bohem head brewer Matěj…

When diverting off Berkeley Square in Mayfair and turning into Bruton Place, the cacophony that hit me was overwhelming. The sound echoing down the street emanated from a very large boisterous crowd of drinkers, enjoying a mild November’s evening outside the renowned Guinea pub that now straddles units on both sides of the road. With…

Budweiser Budvar has released its first collaborative beer outside the Czech Republic through a tie-up with one of the country’s smaller craft breweries Pivovar Clock. The move follows three previous collaborations but these former brews were restricted to the domestic market whereas this new collaboration, Bohemian Idols, will be available in Europe in a limited…

I’ve never felt any compulsion to collect them. In fact, in the past I’ve been more inclined to tear them apart as a way to do something with my hands while my mates took the more dangerous option of smoking. But all the while I have taken note of the designs on them and admired…

Bohem Brewery was delighted to receive the Mayor of Haringey Cllr Adam Jogee, along with a deputation from Haringey Council, in the tap room in Myddleton Road on Friday. The Mayor asked to visit the taproom after Bohem Brewery donated four bar tabs worth £50 each a prizes for Haringey Council’s new Treasure Trail scheme…

While the media zealously focused its attention on various nightclubs opening on the stroke of midnight for the ridiculously named “Freedom Day” as they satisfied lengthy queues of youngsters, the reality on the ground on 19 July was more subdued and felt rather like the previous Monday in the pubs I visited. Any enthusiasm people…