The Spirit World

The BitterSweet Partnership, which has been set up by Coors Brewers aims to address and remove the gender imbalance that exists around beer consumption and targeting. 
The BitterSweet Partnership conducted research of over 2,000 women to get their thoughts and found that there are very real barriers and myths that exist around women and beer. They […]

For a new twist on a Valentine’s favorite, try the following cocktail. According to Jeff Coleman, president of Distinguished Brands International, “The distinct dark chocolate hints of O’Hara’s Irish Stout pair perfectly with the fresh strawberry taste of Früli to create a decadent drink that tastes like everyone’s favorite Valentine treat of chocolate-covered strawberries.” 
Chocolate Covered […]

Those of you that have ever been to New Orleans have, no doubt, come across Abita Amber. It essentially replaces Budweiser in most places that serve draught beer. I wouldn’t say that it is an especially great beer, but it has enough going on in it that makes it quite enjoyable.
On the other end of […]

I love beer that’s so thick you can chew it. I adore heavy stouts and I.P.A.s make my bottom all tingly, but there’s a special place in my being that’s purely reserved for barleywine. Just the fact that the IBUs can get well over 100 in this wonderful style of beer is enough to intrigue…well, […]

When I picked up a bottle of Damrak gin, I realized that ordinary bitters wouldn’t quite cut it. The body of the gin is far too malty for anything I had, so I made my own. Being that I have hoppy beer, I used that as the bittering agent.
 
This beauty is what followed:
 
Natural Harmonic
2 oz […]

Comeing up quick - May 16th and 17th May is the Savor American Craft Beer and Food Experience.
Described as a ‘must attend for craft beer aficionados and foodies alike’, SAVOR will offer a memorable craft beer and food experience to a limited number of attendees under the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC.
There will be […]

I have two favourite brewers - Breakspears, based in my home county of Oxfordshire and London’s Fuller, Smith & Turner. Not sure if the former is availble across the pond but the latter has just won two gold medals at this year’s prestigious 2008 Brewers Association World Beer Cup held in San Diego.
The winning Fuller’s beers were: […]

Nothing is more appealing to me when I travel, than having an opportunity to sample some of the locally available food or beverages. When I find that there is not only a local food AND beverage, but that they are specifically intended to be paired together, then clearly this is not an opportunity I can’t […]

In the blockbuster movie “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” actor Nicolas Cage expertly maneuvers a Mercedes through the narrow streets of London as beer kegs drop off the livery truck exploding Fuller’s London Pride in front of him.  But that’s not just any truck and those certainly aren’t just any kegs.  To capture the flavor […]

Cisk Lager is about to become available in the United States for the first time in its brewery’s 168-year history.
For those who just said ‘what?”, Cisk Lager is the signature beer of Malta.
The Maltese producers have won numerous international awards, including Cisk’s prestigious distinction as the World’s Best Standard Lager from the 2007 World Beer Awards, […]