Ed's Beer Site: Bar and music matching
Pete Brown has been banging the drum of beer and music matching for some time, and has even written a book about it . I must admit it's not ...| edsbeer.blogspot.com
A recent study on beer foam introduced a lot of people to a strange type of science: brewing research by non-brewers. I first came across ...| edsbeer.blogspot.com
Pete Brown has been banging the drum of beer and music matching for some time, and has even written a book about it . I must admit it's not ...| edsbeer.blogspot.com
The unfortunate late cancellation of a planned trip to Germany did have a silver lining: it meant I was able to go on my local CAMRA branch'...| edsbeer.blogspot.com
I recently attended the CIBD's Sustainability in Brewing Conference in Nottingham. I was working so though there was plenty of networking and CPD I didn't take notes. I did take some pictures though:| Ed's Beer Site
There are two career paths open to #PubMen and #PubWomen. Pub ticking is the most prominent on social media, as it lends itself well to blogging and microblogging. The struggles of Retired Martin and BRAPA Si to tick the entire Good Beer Guide are the stuff of epics, and Martin well deserves his coverage in the national press. My own achievements in that area are somewhat more modest (Isle of Man compleator 2017) which unsurprisingly didn't even make the pages of the Manx Independent. | Ed's Beer Site
I was back at Hogs Back brewery last week, a place where I had my first brewing job . Unfortunately for me, and indeed many, many other peop...| edsbeer.blogspot.com
Once again the stench of heresy assaults my nostrils. Our Mother Church has voted at its recent AGM in favour of this motion:| Ed's Beer Site
A very interesting article by the hop goddess Klara Hajdu in the CIBD magazine gives an update on the latest research from Wye Hops.| Ed's Beer Site
Dates get hazy for me if I go back further than the last weekend. So what exactly has happened since 2018, rather than say 2017 or 1911, isn't immediately obvious. But the stand out thing in the world of good beer for me only happened a year or two ago. Unless it was three, but definitely within the required time frame: I brewed Thomas Hardy Ale. Yes, me. Brewing one of the final five! Do things get better than that? Not that I can think of and I'd be very surprised if any of my fellow sessio...| Ed's Beer Site
Considering that debate still rages about the 1974 county boundary changes I would tread very lightly if I was proposing any boundary changes myself. But CAMRA currently has a plan to change its branch structure so no branch straddles CAMRA region or county boundaries. From what I can gather it's a top down proposal from the National Executive. | Ed's Beer Site
There are few genuinely innovative things in beer. So when me and a mate discovered a pub crawl that not only loops round to end where it starts but involves going both over and under the Thames I knew we were on to something rare and special. #PubPeople I bring you The Rotherhithe Round. | Ed's Beer Site
Back in Dublin for the first time since 1911 I finally got to go round the Guinness brewery at St James's Gate. | Ed's Beer Site
Since I've been a member of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling the importance of distilleries to seems to have been growing. There is a lot of money in spirits which I'm sure is entirely coincidental. Whisk(e)y distilleries are great places to visit though, usually old buildings, gleaming copper and dusty oak barrels. | Ed's Beer Site
Religion requires certain rituals and observances from the faithful and CAMRA is no exception. On a recent trip to London I was able to fulfil one of them by calling in at the Royal Oak in Borough for a pint of Harvey's Dark Mild, thus doing my duty in the Beery Month of Obligation and saving mild for another year. | Ed's Beer Site
After our distillery detours it was back to breweries. Rye River brewery was founded ten years ago, initially by getting their beers contract brewed, including in the UK. This didn't go down well locally but when they build their own brewery it was Irish made, possibly the first Irish built brewery in a century? | Ed's Beer Site
One's never enough. But we're not talking about my drinking habits, I was in Ireland for studying. So after the Midleton distillery visit, Tullamore (owned by William Grant and Sons) was next. | Ed's Beer Site
In the world of beer there has been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about companies going bankrupt...and then re-opening immediately free of the debts they had to their suppliers. I have personal experience of this from the inside so it seems a good time to write down what I can remember.| Ed's Beer Site
People think it's all milk and honey 'Spoons vouchers and discounts being a CAMRA member. But as CAMRA is a campaigning organisation there are responsibilities and obligations placed upon the membership. | Ed's Beer Site
After the Murphys visit I popped back to the hotel. Which was just as well really as my room had been totally cleared out: bag, jacket and even toothbrush gone. I figured I hadn't been hit by an unusually thorough burglar but instead it was a hotel cock up. The woman on reception had no idea what had happened but said "we'll find it" and was true to her word which was a great relief. I'm glad that one got sorted whilst it was early and I was sober, would have been a lot more agro when I rolle...| Ed's Beer Site
As someone who takes my Continuing Professional Development very seriously it was without hesitation that I booked on to the IBD Study Tour of Ireland. We started in Cork, a city I liked the look of:| Ed's Beer Site
I'd waited a long time for this. It was over thirty years ago that I first drank Sarah Hughes Original Dark Ruby Mild. I think they've dropped the "Original" from the name since then, but as I now know the locals simply call it "Ruby".| Ed's Beer Site
Once again the stench of heresy assaults my nostrils . Our Mother Church has voted at its recent AGM in favour of this motion: "This Confer...| edsbeer.blogspot.com
Dates get hazy for me if I go back further than the last weekend . So what exactly has happened since 2018, rather than say 2017 or 1911, is...| edsbeer.blogspot.com
Feel that sun| Ed's Beer Site
I was going to use Return of the Native for the title of this post but I'm so slow other people have got there before me. I don't know what the book's about anyway, it was Far From the Madding Crowd I was forced to study at school, in all its interminable tedium. It didn't leave me with a high opinion of Thomas Hardy. The man was clearly being paid by the word and milking it for all he could:| Ed's Beer Site
The last stop of the Irish study tour for me was Teeling distillery. Most people went on to Whiplash brewery afterward but I had to meet my cousin's husband so on this occasion you won't get to see me acting like a maniac. | Ed's Beer Site
This blog has lead me in some unexpected directions. Most recently to a very interesting conversation with Kathryn Thomson, the Head of Education and Professional Development at the Institute of Brewing and Distilling (IBD). So it seems rather appropriate to put something on the blog. | Ed's Beer Site
There are few genuinely innovative things in beer . So when me and a mate discovered a pub crawl that not only loops round to end where it s...| edsbeer.blogspot.com
Back in Dublin for the first time since 1911 I finally got to go round the Guinness brewery at St James's Gate . Diageo own "46-50" breweri...| edsbeer.blogspot.com
