Posts by Glynn Davis
Calling time on The Bottle Shop
As someone who has been writing about beer for 25 years I’m stating the blindingly obvious when I say there has been a revolution in the industry. Anybody who has been interested in drinking beer will have enjoyed riding the wave. Lots of businesses have jumped in to satisfy demand – maybe too many…
Read MoreBeer Travels with Adrian Tierney-Jones
I once stayed in a palace in Venice with original bits of art in my bedroom, the kind of place where buying a drink at the bar needed a mortgage; and last year I spent a night in a room in Budapest where the lock didn’t work and all kinds of characters were wandering…
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There it sits in the glass, a gleam of gold suggestive of the end of the rainbow, a snowy, alpine-like collar of foam on the top, inviting and enticing. In the slow tick-tock, lunchtime-shadowed confines of the pub, the Live and Let Live in Cambridge, where I once used to go when I lived…
Read MoreFuller’s sale: Sad? Yes. But not the end of their story.
Charles Dickens stated “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” in his novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ he could have been describing the present state of brewing in the UK from a consumer perspective. In the same week we had the announcement that Fuller’s was selling its brewing business…
Read MoreBohem teams up with brewing legend Roger Ryman for lager collab
Collaborations are commonplace among craft brewers but much less so among more established brewers who are maybe more focused on the day job and have possibly also been overlooked to some extent. Since setting up in 2016 it was only a question of time before Bohem Brewery in North London would undertake its first collaboration,…
Read MoreIt’s about more than just the beer
My annual January pilgrimage to New York City for a business conference has typically involved visits to renowned craft beer bars to seek out the latest brews from the city’s quality craft brewers and discover beer from new brewers that weren’t around the previous year. This year I tried to retreat from the never-ending chase…
Read MoreGrowing into the overcoat
New York-based Brooklyn Brewery is undoubtedly one of the most successful US craft brewers having built a global presence since its creation in 1988 helped by its flagship amber lager and iconic label. By employing graphic designer Milton Glaser – best known for his I Love New York design – to create its logo, Brooklyn…
Read MoreBeer Travels with Adrian Tierney-Jones
So there I am in Prague wanting a beer and the only problem is where do I go. Ever since I first visited this city of cities in 2005, I have always had an extraordinary thirst for its pubs and bars. On that debut trip I drank wall to wall Pilsner Urquell, partly because…
Read MoreAround Town with Amateur Drinker
Writing November’s round-up it seemed that Cloudwater had a finger in every pie as they opened a London tap-room, announced a new festival and re-launched cask. The new bar is in Enid Street, Bermondsey between Moor and Brew By Numbers. Cloudwater has upped the ante, clearly spending a great deal of money, so that it…
Read MoreAround Town with Amateur Drinker
October saw the much-anticipated Mikkeller Bar opening in London’s Shoreditch. Like any sentient being, I passed on the Friday opening, featuring impromptu concerts from co-investor Rick Astley and free give-aways. The stories of failed kegs and pictures of queues on social media rather justified that decision. The Editor and I went the next day, which…
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