Boasting a culture and heritage at least as rich and varied as wine or spirits, beer is no longer seen as merely a crude intoxicant knocked back on a Friday night to help blot out the everyday. It has become not only something you drink, but something you taste, appreciate, cook with, brew yourself and celebrate! In the absence of a single UK beer information resource, BeerExpert has been brewed up by a team of aficionados with the aim of aiding navigation through the heady waters of the beer world.
The unresponsive limbs, sandpaper tongue, sluggish eyelids and a headache that feels like nothing less than a knitting needle bisecting the space between your ears. All joking aside, there can’t be many beer drinkers who haven’t, for want of a better word, overdone it the night before at least once …
The marketing men at Bangla Beer certainly know how to push a few buttons. “It’s colour . . . reminiscent of the golden hue of the sun setting over the Bay of Bengal” runs one of the lines on its promotional website. The sales pitch goes on to extol the …
As well as microbreweries and craft breweries there exists a smaller category of brewers who enjoy a near legendary status which is some senses deserved, and in some senses not! The family brewery is, as the name suggests, a brewery owned and maintained by a family. As such, these breweries …
Many people frown upon the notion of low alcohol beer citing the fact that it does not have the same effects as ordinary beer which – when drank in large quantities – can induce feelings of giddiness and drunkenness. Why Have Low Alcohol Beer? Principally the purpose of low alcohol …
One of Britain’s most popular beer styles, India Pale Ale’s name harks back to a time when it was produced to quench the thirsts of Brits abroad in the Indian subcontinent. The Popular Story Although better known today as IPA, its full title of India Pale Ale is an evocative …
Once the most popular beer in the British Isles, the English mild fell dramatically out of favour in the 1960s, but its fortunes are on the rise again. Conflicting Emotions As recent as the 1960s “a pint of mild” would have been one of the most popular requests at bars …
The colour of the glass can make all the difference between whether beer poured from the bottle is fresh tasting or ‘skunky’ – and also whether it sells in big numbers. Beer and Light Beer does not respond well to light and exposure to its invasive rays can lead to …
Like most nationalities Brits like their beer served cool, so why are they known for preferring it warm and how does temperature actually affect the quality of the drinking experience? Warm Beer Myth Making Americans and ex-Prime Minister John Major (“Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the …
Popularly referred to as a “meal in a glass”, does Guinness really offer sufficient nourishment required to keep a body ticking over? The Guinness Diet It is a heinous culinary faux pas committed by ignorant diners across the land – that of accompanying a meal with a pint of Guinness. …
There are those that claim you’ve never tasted the best Guinness unless you’ve supped one in Ireland, but is this romantic myth-making or are the Irish really blessed with the best black stuff? The Same Guinness However hard you try to serve your pub clientele the perfect pint of Guinness …