Tag: 2023
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S is for Seasonal Stouts – or Stouts for the Seasons?
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[Part I] A compendium on dark, top-fermented beer styles, white wine masquerading as red, and applying oneself to further studies for the greater good
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F is for Festival Glassware: Do we really need more glasses and why are you drinking out of a brandy glass?
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Unpicking mindless drinking and regimented tasting through a series of unrelated events
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H is for House Wine: A white wine for drinking purposes
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Collected memories of vineyard tours, taste notes and sample pours: coastal sea breeze salinity, smoky volcanic rock minerality and lemon-lime-kiwi acidity.
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N is for Natural – Naked apples, practical grape juice, and borrowing words from the craft beer scene
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Musings about the vague, yet highly charged world of natural wine and cider
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O is for Oak Chips – Belgian blond ales, Biermischgetränke and Black Velvet daydreams
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A broadcast of sorts, of thoughts, on beer, cocktails and beer cocktails
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G is for Gin – Poison, cool beards, and a thousand and one botanicals
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Here we are now, entertain us – I feel stupid, and contagious[i]
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J is for Jenever – Doctors, Distillers and Dutch Courage
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The Black Death, finding Spirituality in juniper berries, and unfinished business in a museum
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D is for Dream Drinking Establishment – My Ideal Cider Pub
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Apples, orchards, cider culture and George Orwell
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B is for Blanche – French wheat beers, Swiss lakeshores, British thoughts on Irish stouts and a German need for beverage fulfilment
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Exploring the subtle differences between Bavarian and German purity proclamations and considering my own drinks Shangri-La