Posts by Glynn Davis
A little bit of Italy in Chiswick
The cafés, galleries, wine bars and fromageries on the leafy lanes of Chiswick in the spring sunshine can sometimes make you feel like you’re on holiday on the continent. At The Italian Job (@TheItalianJobW4), a new, Italian craft beer gastropub, there is no question which country you’ve been transported to. For many people, Italian beer means…
Read MoreLokal – a top Prague concept
For me Lokal in Prague gets that balance between beer and food perfectly. It’s something that can often be a problem in the UK as we all know gastropubs simply aren’t pubs. They don’t work. Lokal is a mini chain that dispenses beer from the famed tanks – with both the Pilsner and…
Read MoreNorthern fightback
There was a slight bitterness in the North, a tangible harrumph when London went from ‘beer wasteland’ to ‘totes craft’ in the space of about six months in 2012. The North was and is well populated with the type of brewery that brews hop forward pale ales. Roosters Brewery in North Yorkshire is rightly…
Read MoreWhat do I know about chocolate…a lot more now
Chocolate and beer have some similarities in that they have both followed somewhat similar paths of late in becoming true modern day artisan goods. They are now being produced by specialists who are sufficiently skilled to give them nuanced characteristics and who are leveraging their terroir. Armed with virtually no knowledge of the chocolate market,…
Read MoreAround town with Amateur drinker
From the perspective of a keen amateur – or piss-head if you are being less polite – I’m here to give a monthly round-up of the scene (events, launches and tap take-overs) mainly in London. Who is this bloke you ask? Well, I live in the capital and first discovered craft beer just over two…
Read MoreBrew your own
Brewers have appeared like the proverbial fungi (the one we like with a full English breakfast) all around the country. But one of the epicentres for the resurgence in producing beer is without doubt Bermondsey – where the increasingly infamous Bermondsey Beer Mile features a handful of top-notch (and some not so top-notch) brewers.…
Read MoreHowe to make regional brewer relevant and maybe fashionable
In the haze of craft beer we’ve sort of forgotten what regional brewers are all about. They’ve become rather unfashionable. With their long-standing traditional models of owning a brewery and pubs, and selling into the on-trade and supermarkets – predominantly within a tight geographic area- they’ve long been a mainstay of the beer industry but…
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