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Dish of the Day: The art of beer labels
Selecting an unknown beer to try can be a difficult business. But when the pumpclips run the length of the bar and the fridges are cluttered with colourful bottles competing for your attention,...
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Dish of the Day: A visit to St Austell brewery
Last weekend was bliss for two reasons. One; it was the first time I had felt the warmth of the sun on my fair skin for six months. Two; I spent it in Cornwall, visiting the St Austell brewery.
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Dish of the Day: Beer is the new wine
Beer is the new wine. Fine dining no longer requires an accompaniment of the grape variety; discerning drinkers are increasingly opting for a glass of craft over chardonnay.
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Dish of the Day: Beer matching menu – Part 1 – Apéritif
Last week I looked at the basic principles of matching beer with food; complementing, contrasting and cutting. For the next few weeks I’m going to going to look in more detail at specific food and beer...
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Dish of the Day: Beer matching menu – Part 2 – The Starter
Choosing a beer to match your starter can be more difficult than selecting the aperitif - which for me, usually fulfils the simple requirement of being just the lightest, most refreshing beer on the...
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Dish of the Day: Beer matching menu – Part 3 – The Main
The main course on most beer matching menus tends to be meat. Not just any meat, pork. And I’m not talking about a couple of chops or a sausage, I’m talking about roast suckling pig or trotters stuffed...
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Dish of the Day: Part 4 – Dessert and digestif
It’s the final instalment and the final two courses of the beer matching menu; dessert and digestif. While it is always tempting to make a boozy finish – a brandy infused trifle or a stout cake – I...
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Dish of the Day: Craft Beer battle
Nothing beats a bit of friendly competition. On Saturday, the beer scene had a taste of just that. Craft Beer Battle – hosted by Tweat Up, the crew behind other food related parties such us Ginstock...
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Dish of the Day: Beer bottles vs. beer cans – Which one makes your drink...
Tap. Click. Pshhh. The sound of opening a can of lager is almost synonymous with drinking beer, yet it seems that for British drinkers the mark of a “quality” beverage is still one that comes in a...
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Dish of the Day: Could new brews win over craft beer drinkers?
Cask ale brewers don’t come much bigger than Marston’s. In fact the brewery, which also owns thousands of pubs across the country, is the biggest cask ale brewer in the world.
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Dish of the Day: The top 5 craft lagers
Summer is finally here. On a hot afternoon, with burger in hand and barbeque smoke in the air, nothing is quite as thirst-quenchingly delicious as a lager. Summer is finally here. On a hot afternoon,...
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Dish of the Day: Japanese craft beer
Usually when something is “big in Japan”, its popularity is rather less so over here. Craft beer, it seems, is an exception.
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