If you enter the words “beer sales UK” into Google News right now you might feel in need of a strong ale or six, with headlines saying: “Beer sales slump to Great Depression levels” and “Decline in sales of beer in the UK accelerating”.
(Actually, that last headline really reads: “Decline in sales of bee in [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 30, 2008
Cask ale sales: gloom or boom?
July 23, 2008
Heather ale: Scots or Irish?
Thanks to Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote a poem about it, and Bruce Williams, who started brewing it commercially 15 years ago, heather ale is now firmly associated with Scotland.
But in fact the Irish have just as great a claim to be the home of heather ale, with good evidence that it was brewed in [...]
July 18, 2008
Bonkers Boris backs barmy booze-buying ban
If you’re 20 and planning a big party for your 21st, or you’re 20, soon to be married, and arranging a jolly wedding reception, and in addition you live in London, you should buy all the drink you’ll be needing for your guests now, because Boris Johnson, the new Mayor of London, and a rising [...]
July 11, 2008
Loch Fyne could be finer with decent beer
At the top of the (long) street where we now live is what used to be a pub called the Lord Nelson, the middle one of a trio of boozers with Napoleonic names between Hampton Hill and Twickenham Green. (The other two being the now-closed Wellington and the Prince Blücher, which is named after the [...]
