Beer suffers relative to wine in several ways, for example when it comes to the pure number of books written about it, there are probably more books written on an annual basis about the northern wine regions of Italy than there are annual beer publications. Part of the reason for this is that wine is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘craft beer’
Pubpaper 672 – Beer and Wine – the state of play
Posted: 27th August 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: Black Sheep, copper dragon, craft beer, saltaire, wine
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Pubpaper 667 – Changing Favourite Breweries
Posted: 19th July 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: craft beer, magic rock, mallinsons, real ale, summer wine brewery
We all have our favourite breweries. For mainstream lager drinkers they will be the likes of Molson Coors, Carlsberg or InBev who produce products such as Stella, Carlsberg, Coors and Carling. If you like real ale, but stick to the larger brands, your choice may well be Timothy Taylor, Black Sheep or Copper Dragon if [...]
Pubpaper 652 – My dichotomy on CAMRA and theirs on Craft Beer
Posted: 9th April 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: camden, CAMRA, cask beer, craft beer, craft keg, hardknott, lager, magic rock, pubs of the year, thornbridge
CAMRA are bringing out a mixed bag of feelings this month in me. Pushing me away from them is the rejection of the majority of the craft beer motions submitted by the working group which was set up to investigate the matter to its National Executive, although my annoyance is that one in particular was [...]
Pubpaper 644 – CAMRA needs a backbone and more misguided Alcohol policies
Posted: 11th February 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: beer duty, CAMRA, craft beer, government policy, real ale, SIBA
The attack dogs have been put on a leash temporarily in the dog fight that was the craft / keg / cask / real ale war. The troops are playing football in no mans land and managing not to put in two footed tackles. This means we can get down to the important element in [...]
Pubpaper 640 – CAMRA consults over Keg Beer and reaching a balance
Posted: 16th January 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, Uncategorized, WritingTags: Brewdog, camden, CAMRA, craft beer, hardknott, keg beer, kernel, magic rock, marble, real ale, stout, summer wine, thornbridge, todmorden
There has been much written both in the blogosphere among beer writers and in this paper by myself and the editor regarding CAMRA’s attitude to keg beer. Their view on the subject is generally considered to be both unhealthy to the beer trade generally and being too inclusive given the craft keg beer revolution which [...]