No red, red wine for red-red stew on Saturday Kitchen?
My Saturday morning is predictable: toast, Marmite, jasmine tea for MaltCim, check the beginning of Saturday Kitchen on BBC1 to see who’s on. These days, this includes who’s hosting (instead of James...
View ArticleBeer on Saturday Kitchen again, yet room to grouse
You wait forever for BBC to wake up and smell the hops on Saturday Kitchen, but just a few weeks after choosing BrewDog’s 5AM Saint red ale to break their beer/food pairing duck, along comes another...
View ArticleI’m dreaming of a white pizza (with figs)
In my quest for great beer and food experiences, Swedish beer magazine C/O Hops is hard to beat for a source of ideas. It is a beautifully presented publication dedicated to all that is good about...
View ArticleIn search of wild Swedish saison at midsummer
Sweden, midsummer’s day. The day after the great Swedish holiday of Midsummer Eve. I find myself in grand surroundings: the Grand Hotel in Lund, in Sweden’s deep south. I’m not here to celebrate the...
View Article30-Second Beer book – MaltJerry coming to your bookshelves
On March 14, my first book 30-Second Beer, is being published. I say “my”, it’s co-authored with some of Britain’s best and most well-known beer writers. I say “first book”, I’ve written countless...
View ArticleA new look and approach for Malt Jerry
“What do you mean? It looks exactly the same as last month/year.” Well, yes it does, but just you wait. As most of my beer writing time and energy last year was taken up with my work on The 30-second …...
View ArticleThe best beer in the World (Cup)
So there I was on a Sunday evening, half-watching the World Cup game while on location in Sweden. I opened a bottle I’d bought for just such a sultry summer’s evening in front of the footy – a...
View ArticleFuller’s & Friends. Collaboration or Scouting Mission?
“Let’s do itLet’s do it.Do it while the mood is rightI’m feelingAppealingI’ve really got an appetite.” Sang Victoria Wood in her Ballad of Barry and Freda. But it appears brewers all over the world...
View ArticleBetter the Duvel you know?
To barrel-age or not to barreI-age? That is the question on my mind, the morning after a tutored Duvel tasting on a ridiculously balmy February evening in London. It wasn’t on my mind the night before....
View ArticleThe Best Beer in the (Cricket) World (Cup) (Final)
Waterloo Tap. It’s a weird place. It’s not the only railway-arch bar south of the river, but it is a cricket-ball’s throw away from a station. A railway bar experience even though it’s not a station...
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