Mash-up

A mash-up of beer, whisky, food and music.

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The Best Beer in the (Cricket) World (Cup) (Final)

The Best Beer in the (Cricket) World (Cup) (Final)

Waterloo Tap. It’s a weird place. It’s not the only railway-arch bar south of the river, but it is a cricket-ball’s throw away from a station. A railway bar experience even though it’s not a station pub. And it has a range of beers worth missing a train for.

But not everyone is waiting for a train home. Some might be on the way to the London Eye, the Royal Festival Hall or the South Bank,…

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Better the Duvel you know?

Better the Duvel you know? An opportunity to taste 4 Duvel variants, including the rare Barrel-Aged No:3. I wonder if I have to guess what brewers' intentions are, and does it, cosmically speaking, matter?

To barrel-age or not to barreI-age? That is the question on my mind, the morning after a tutored Duvel tasting on a ridiculously balmy February evening in London. It wasn’t on my mind the night before.

I mean, you have to barrel age, don’t you?

Duvel. To BA or not to BA? That is the question.

A night at the Bottle Shop bar on the Bermondsey Beer Mile with the promise of four Duvel…

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Fuller's & Friends. Collaboration or Scouting Mission?

Fuller's & Friends. Collaboration or Scouting Mission? An update of a draft I didn't finish from February 2018. Well, how things have moved on...

“Let’s do it Let’s do it. Do it while the mood is right I’m feeling Appealing I’ve really got an appetite.”

Sang Victoria Wood in her Ballad of Barry and Freda. But it appears brewers all over the world have an appetite for making beautiful beer together. Collaborating.

Fuller’s, the grand old dame of classic English beer, said “Let’s do it” with six beacons of the UK modern/craft beer scene…

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The best beer in the World (Cup)

The best beer in the World (Cup). Why does a beer sometimes make you go Whaam!?

So there I was on a Sunday evening, half-watching the World Cup game while on location in Sweden. I opened a bottle I’d bought for just such a sultry summer’s evening in front of the footy – a Remmarlöv Haus Pils. A lager from an obscure brewery from the south of Sweden, and Whaam! A thunderbolt struck.

Not the kind of scorching shot from a marauding Russian midfielder hitting the back of the net…

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A new look and approach for Malt Jerry

A new look and approach for Malt Jerry

“What do you mean? It looks exactly the same as last month/year.” Well, yes it does, but just you wait.

As most of my beer writing time and energy last year was taken up with my work on The 30-second Beer Book, now finally published, I haven’t posted much on this blog. I know, never draw attention to the lack of posts on a blog, but really, with the world going all kinds of crazy, including…

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30-Second Beer book - MaltJerry coming to your bookshelves

30-Second Beer book – MaltJerry coming to your bookshelves

On March 14, my first book 30-Second Beer, is being published. I say “my”, it’s co-authored with some of Britain’s best and most well-known beer writers. I say “first book”, I’ve written countless other technical publications, but, hey, you’ve got to open a blog post in a catchy way, I hear.

Safe to say, this is the first published beer book I’ve been involved in, and certainly the first work…

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In search of wild Swedish saison at midsummer

In search of wild Swedish saison at midsummer

Sweden, midsummer’s day. The day after the great Swedish holiday of Midsummer Eve. I find myself in grand surroundings: the Grand Hotel in Lund, in Sweden’s deep south. I’m not here to celebrate the solstice, though, I did that yesterday. I’m in town in search of some wild beer. Something from Brekeriet, to be exact.

It’s quiet in Lund in the summer. Too quiet. A university town, it’s only really…

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I'm dreaming of a white pizza (with figs)

I’m dreaming of a white pizza (with figs)

In my quest for great beer and food experiences, Swedish beer magazine C/O Hops is hard to beat for a source of ideas. It is a beautifully presented publication dedicated to all that is good about beer. The beer and food section is always inspiring and occasionally daunting. When I saw this photo for white pizza with figs in the Autumn 2017 edition, I could hardly wait to get home from hols in…

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Beer on Saturday Kitchen again, yet room to grouse

Beer on Saturday Kitchen again, yet room to grouse

You wait forever for BBC to wake up and smell the hops on Saturday Kitchen, but just a few weeks after choosing BrewDog’s 5AM Saint red ale to break their beer/food pairing duck, along comes another beer/food pairing. I wrote about it here. Olly Smith shows his beer credentials on Saturday Kitchen. (Screen grab from BBC iPlayer) Matt Tebbutt is again the host (coincidence?), Tom Kitchin is the…

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Warpigs: Mikkeller's brewpub in Copenhagen with "authentic" Texas BBQ

Warpigs: Mikkeller’s brewpub in Copenhagen with “authentic” Texas BBQ

“Generals gathered in their masses”. Goes the opening line of the Black Sabbath metal classic War Pigs. “Just like witches at black masses”, Continues Ozzy, with not a thought towards ever winning a Nobel Prize for literature. Chemistry, on the other hand…* And not as generals, but like IT professionals at an afterwork on a Friday, we gathered at Warpigs brewpub, Copenhagen for an evening of…

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Chicken brined with Duvel with a creme fraiche sauce finished with Duvel and a salad dressed with walnut oil, Arbor Barley Davidson and honey. #craftbeer #beerandfood

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No red, red wine for red-red stew on Saturday Kitchen?

No red, red wine for red-red stew on Saturday Kitchen?

My Saturday morning is predictable: toast, Marmite, jasmine tea for MaltCim, check the beginning of Saturday Kitchen on BBC1 to see who’s on. These days, this includes who’s hosting (instead of James Martin), and who’s doing the wine choices. BBC Saturday Kitchen: Host Matt Tebbutt with guest chefs Zoe Adjonyoh and Theo Randall and wine expert Sam Caporn Who am I kidding about the wine? As my…

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The best fore-rib of beef I've ever done. On the bbq, indirect, slow roast, reverse sear. But nothing without the quality of the beef. #beef #Sundayroast #bbq

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Fluffy white cloud over Ripley. #Surrey #sundaylunch #clouds #sky

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Sherry with Jerry. Swedish visitor inspired a summer evening with Tio Pepe fino and Gonzalez Byass 12 yo amontillado and bounty from #Boroughmarket #sherry

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Just what I wanted, @MagicRockBrewCo. How did you know?! #craftbeer #telepathy #onthetiles #design #cans

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Not your usual pre-solstice beer. @brewdogofficial Abstrakt 22 Speyside barrel-aged Imperial cacao coffee Stout. Intense is right. Best one in a while. #craftbeer #barrelaged #BA #ImperialStout #Abstrakt #onthetiles