Watch out for Fuller’s whisky beer

Some time in the next couple of months or so, when things get a little quieter for the summer, Fuller’s brewery at Chiswick in West London is going to be brewing its own version of Gale’s Prize Old Ale for the first time.
The current version, reviewed enthusiastically here, was brewed at Gale’s brewery just [...]

What was AK?

If you had travelled around Britain in the very early 1970s sampling beers from local brewers, you would have found several called AK. Fremlin’s of Faversham, then owned by Whitbread, made one. So did another Whitbread-owned former independent, Strong’s of Romsey, in Hampshire.
In Hertfordshire two brewers, McMullen’s of Hertford and Rayment’s of Furneux Pelham, also [...]

Categorical nonsense

The Procrustean nonsense of defining rigid categories that every beer must fit into is well illustrated by The Leveller, one of the brews with Civil War-themed names from the Springhead brewery, at Sutton-on-Trent, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire.
The Leveller is brewed, like almost all Springhead’s beers, with Maris Otter malt, plus, in this case, some [...]