You should have moved …
Anyone still following this blog at its old zythophile.wordpress.com address, my apologies, but you should have moved to the new address, zythophile.co.uk, where you will be guaranteed to see all the...
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The three-threads mystery and the birth of porter: the answer is …
One of the biggest mysteries in the history of beer concerns a drink called three-threads, and its exact place in the early history of porter. Three-threads was evidently a mixed beer sold in the...
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Why Meantime sold up to SAB Miller – the inside story
Meantime Brewing’s surprise sale to SAB Miller, the second largest brewing company in the world, was prompted by a growing realisation at the Greenwich-based craft brewer that it did not have the...
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Why Welsh beer blogger Simon Martin is a superstar in Poland
Two of the more than 300 bronze dwarfs to be found on the streets of Wrocław. They commemorate the surrealist anti-Communist Orange Alternative protest movement of the 1980s, whose symbol was a dwarf,...
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Eight per cent of British craft brewers have PhDs and other dubious statistics
I have a new book out, A Craft Beer Road Trip Around Britain, with snapshots of 40 of Britain’s top small breweries from Scotland to the South West. Don’t rush to try to buy it from Amazon/your...
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In which I give more badly written beer history a good kicking
Why oh why am I still having to write lengthy corrections to articles about the history of India Pale Ale? Well, apparently because the Smithsonian magazine, the official journal published by the...
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More notes towards a history of the beer mug
Loved and disliked in equal parts, and enjoying an unexpected renaissance in hipstery parts, despite being more than 70 years old, the dimpled beer mug is undoubtedly an icon of England. It was...
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How I got Mikkeller to call me a bastard
What sort of bastard goes along to a book launch just to point out to the author the mistakes he’s made? Errrr … Me. OK, it was done in what I’d like to insist, really, was a semi-joking way, and in a...
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Why Greene King doesn’t care that the haters hate its IPA
Hard luck, haters: Greene King knows you don’t like its IPA, you think it’s too bland, “not a real IPA” at 3.6% abv, and it doesn’t care at all. Not the tiniest drop. In fact it’s probably quite...
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Why Rooney Anand is talking rubbish on minimum alcohol pricing
I was disappointed and angry to see Rooney Anand, chief executive of Greene King, calling in the Daily Telegraph last week for minimum unit pricing for alcohol. Disappointed because the arguments for...
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What if Michael Jackson had never lived?
Back in May I was asked by Johan Holm, editor of the Swedish beer magazine c/o Hops, if I would like to write 2,500 words for the 10th anniversary of the death of the beer writer Michael Jackson, to...
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Red beer, green lager, immature barley beer: the innovations I drank on a...
Beer made from immature “green” barley – who knew such a thing was possible? Or “red lager” made from actual red-coloured barley? And what does a beer taste like made with barley so controversial it...
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Czeched out at last
Sitting 30 feet below the surface at a table in a workmen’s refuge dug out of the soft Bohemian sandstone, drinking unfiltered, unpasteurised lager made in 80-year-old open wooden fermenting vessels...
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Hurrah! The ten-sided beer mug is back!
In these times of gloom and grey skies, it’s great to have some good news. So hurrah, rejoice, the ten-sided pint mug, iconic symbol of all that is great about British beer, is back in our pubs! If...
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A look round Camden Town’s new Enfield brewery
Whatever you think of Camden Town Brewery’s beer – and enough people like it to swallow more than 300,000 pints of Hells lager, Gentleman’s Wit and the rest every week – the company’s expansion in...
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What’s a brewer’s bucket? No, you’re wrong …
“He shall charge you, and discharge you, with the motion of a pewterer’s hammer, come off and on swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer’s bucket.” Sir John Falstaff, Henry IV part 2, Act III, Scene...
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Fanboy investors put £50m into UK craft breweries: but is that money down the...
A total of £50m has been raised in the UK over the past four years in crowdfunding efforts by more than 40 different craft breweries, and half a dozen craft beer retail operators who have tapped tens...
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Going wild (yeast) in Amsterdam
If there is a more international, more fascinating, more illuminating, more must-not-be-missed beer celebration on the planet right now than Carnivale Brettanomyces in Amsterdam, let me know...
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Laissez les bonnes bières rouler
New Orleans is one of the few places in the world where walking the streets at all hours consuming alcohol from an open container is not just allowed, but actively encouraged. This is party city USA....
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Why the clear glass bottle question means I’m not bothered Marston’s is...
Estrella believes in the power of the brown bottle: it’s a pity a few more British breweries don’t Yesterday’s announcement that Marston’s is acquiring the Charles Wells Brewing and Beer Business for...
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