Amateur Drinker

The big news of July would come from Bermondsey and, totally by chance I started the month there with a superb July 4th American Independence Day special as Stone took over the BottleShop taps. The sun blazed down and the Delicious IPA more than lived up to its name. I was then on holiday for…

Bizarrely, in a beer column, the two most pleasing incidents in the last few weeks actually occurred when I went out not planning to drink beer (it does happen!) and largely stuck to that agenda. The London Wine Fair, an annual event that bills itself as one of the world’s leading wine trade events, is…

In an enjoyable month, Saturday Apr 25 was undoubtedly the highlight for all beer fans: a Siren tap takeover at The Bottle Shop, BeaverTown hosting Lervig at their tap-room, a London brewers’ blind IPA tasting at BrewDog, Shoreditch, and last but most definitely not least Colorado’s Crooked Stave taking over the pumps at the King’s…