Hospital IPA&E is Signature Brew and Hospital Records third collaboration, the previous being Hospital Porter and Doctor’s Orders. Keeping true to Signature Brew’s philosophy of brewing good beers to go with good music they have teamed up with South London Drum and Bass record label Hospital Records. The record label has been going since 1996 and boasts artists such as London Elektricity, Nu:Tone and Danny Byrd. Hospital Porter was a really good Porter when I had it the first

Sometimes you see these online cooking videos and you just know you have to give it ago. I first got the idea of a guacamole filled onion recipe from a video on Facebook by Bosh! I combined it with a few ideas I had from some other things recently. Using a fruity IPA in guacamole was something I wanted to try for a while and thanks to the guys from Brewers Journal, who over the Tempus Project dinner suggested using tortilla chips for coating, I wanted to try something coated

Golden Pints 2016Its 2006 and I walk through a packed Brixton Academy crowd while Biz Markie beat boxes on stage. I’m holding two pints of Carling in my hands. The combination of shit squeezy plastic glasses, slanted floor and a sea of moving elbows has left me with about two thirds of beer in each glass from a round that was the best part of a tenner (even back in 2006) and wet hands. Continue a few years later and I am in Scala Kings Cross watching MC Slug of Atmosphere sma

Ermmmaaagward I lurrrvvee Sorachi Ace hops!!! This is my first thought whenever I have a beer that is brewed with Sorachi Ace hops, I love it, its characteristics are so different to any other type of hop used in brewing. The Sorachi Ace hop was originally made in Hokkaidō, Japan in the late 1970’s however it wasn’t commercial till 1984 and not really available to USA to be used in Craft Beer till 2006!  So quite the new comer to be honest. It was created by combinging Brewer