It comes as no surprise that on an island that is more known for its grapes and wine production that beer is slightly tougher to come by ...

Way back earlier in the year some regulars to the SX Bottleshare all made a trip up to Norwich, I never got around to doing the blog post...

4:45am my alarm clock goes off, waking me up in our IBIS hotel in Lea Bridge Road Leyton, instantly I am thanking myself for sticking to ...

As soon as I took my seat in the blacked out mini bus a pint size can of Pilsner Urquell was put in my hand, it was the first of many, th...

Over the last decade or so I, like many football fans, have travelled around the country watching our chosen team. Over that period of ti...

This Friday Tim Hampson will be at the famous Blackwell’s book store in Oxford to introduce people to the second edition of his 101 Beer ...

People from all over the world travelled to Barcelona to attend the awesome beer festival this March but not only did they get to enjoy a...

La Ramblas, one of the world’s most famous streets, a busy long snake like street with shops, restaurants and tourist attractions running...

Since my love for good beer has increased to obsession level there have been a few people I have met that ooze of so much enthusiasm, pas...

In a country dominated by wine is there room for beer to shine? Bordeaux is famous for their wines but what does the city have for the be...

366 different beers!!! How am I going to try 366 different types of beer from 97 different breweries! This is the first problem you are f...

A trip to the aquarium to try and do something that didn’t involve beer drinking during our time in Barcelona brought us to the Barcelona...

The sound of mass talking, laughing and general merriment booms down the beautiful Maritime museum hall, suddenly the noise is broken by ...

The very first time I went to Brussels I was overwhelmed with all the beers, sweet triples, rich dark dubbel’s and the holy Trappist beer...

When I hear Riga I used to automatically get this image in my head of big groups of stag do’s running wild in the town drinking loads of ...

As mentioned in my post about Mikkeller bar I was on a Baltic cruise with work this summer (Soooo late with these posts!) and my next bee...

The night before the Brussels beer festival the misses and I were enjoying some beers in Le Grain d’Orge cafe and also were deep in conve...

I could make this the shortest blog post I have ever wrote…. “this meal is one of the best meals I have ever had”…. I could leave it ther...

Mikkeller, possibly the modern beer geeks most highly admired name in the world of beer. I am going to hold my hands up, I slept on Mikke...

One thing I love about Holland and Dutch people is how so relaxed, laid back and non stressed they all come across, this rubbed off on us...