Posts by Glynn Davis
Around Town with Amateur Drinker
November saw a tsunami of ticket-releases, as MBCC, Extravaganza, Beavertown’s 6th Birthday and LCBF all came the market. Roll on 2018! The best event last month was Darker Days IV, Matt Curtis’s annual, seasonal, celebration of darker styles, at The Duke’s Head. This year, he paired Burning Sky with food from, Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen. Tom…
Read MoreEntrepreneurial Briton who’s made big mark on US craft brewing
In 2015 brewing entrepreneur David Bruce received an email from the Seattle-based Elysian Brewing company in the US with the message that the business was to be sold for $35 million and the assumption was that as an investor he would agree to the deal. He did agree and shortly afterwards $2.1 million landed in…
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October saw PunchDrink run a depressing article about how Other Half had become a sign of status symbol of conspicuous consumption on Wall St. (https://punchdrink.com/articles/how-other-half-brewery-become-official-beer-wall-street-finance/). I think the only one of my readers who would not be aghast at this development is the Editor, who might have a slight smirk at his prescience having written…
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When the oral history of the UK craft beer revolution is written, September 2017 will be yet another landmark, as Beavertown’s Extravaganza was the UK’s largest and most impressive festival to date. It was only just over two years ago that Craft Beer Co. had to cancel London Beer Carnival which couldn’t sell out the…
Read MoreSiren pays homage to Paddington for Draft House
Siren Craft Brew is creating a beer to celebrate the recent opening of Draft House’s Paddington pub – in homage to the bear – amid significant expansion at the Berkshire-based brewery. An experimental pilot brew Card’Oranges produced for a London-based festival is being used as the base for the ‘Paddington Beer’ that will be available…
Read MoreMayor of Haringey opens Bohem brewery extension
The Mayor of Haringey was among guests gathered recently at the official opening of London’s only Czech-style brewery Bohem that has just been massively expanded. The expansion has increased brewing capacity seven-fold and the Mayor celebrated its ability to now serve more of its Czech-style beers to a wider audience at a packed event held…
Read MoreRetail Insider Awards Evening with Matching Beers
Beer Insider emerged following the success of sister site Retail Insider and the latter has held its first Awards evening, which involved beers matched to the individual awards, which was handled by The Bottle Shop. The first ‘Retail Insider Transforming Retail Awards’ was held at Sourced Market in Marylebone, central London, and the first award…
Read MoreMayor of Haringey to officially open the brewery expansion at Bohem
Bohem – Traditional Bohemian lagers, brewed by Czech expats, in London. Bohem Brewery is proud to announce that The Worshipful The Mayor of Haringey will be officially re-launching the brewery on 12 October 2017 at its Tap-room at 120A Myddleton Road, N22 8NQ. It has just successfully completed a major upgrade at the brewery on…
Read MoreAround Town with Amateur Drinker
August was obviously dominated by London Beer City, which was even bigger and better than last year. The week kicked off with an unofficial opening party at The Kings Arms, ‘The Scandinavian Embassy’, which hosted a MTB with Dry and Bitter, and had enough brewers and industry people to start a convention. The highlight was…
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Apologies for how late July’s round-up is, but as with most of my readers, the 1st half of August was spent in a drunken haze thanks to the fantastic London Beer City, a full round-up of which will appear next month- and I promise that will be more punctual! July’s best event was the Brasserie…
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