I’m dead chuffed to announce that we have finally managed to get our act together and bring a new premium bottled beer into the Dark Star camp. Since I first brewed Six Hop, about 4 years ago, it has proven to be a runaway success in cask, selling out before it’s even fermented. So, pestering the rest of the team at Dark Star and pulling on the shirt sleeves of the MD...
If you are at a loose end in London this Thursday (19th April) or lucky enough to live close to this excellent purveyor of all things beery , we are honoured to be invited to do a tasting at the fantastic Real Ale shop in Twickenham. Tasting starts at 7.30pm & it is free to come along, for more details / location check this: Looking forward to meeting you all there – a...
Honoured to be asked to do a meet the brewer at the legendary Sheffield Tap. To sweeten the deal, it will be the official launch of the latest Thornbridge/Dark Star collaboration beer – Puja Jasmine IPA!
With a fairly full roster of beers to keep us busy through the year, it is rare that we contemplate adding a new beer to the ‘permanents’. In fact, usually we try to make the case of removing something but then decide we like them all to much and end up having a logistical/brewing juggling session through the year. I constantly have new ideas for beers, which is where...
Life is good. That is what my Kung Fu teacher said, as we sat around eating a meal – and who am I to argue. I live in an idyllic village at the base of the South Downs, have amazing friends a stupidly large record collection and a very cute cat! But the one thing that I constantly rejoice in, is how open, friendly and frankly, cool the beer/brewing industry is! Those friends...
On Thursday 24th November, we will be holding court at the Sussex Ox in Milton St. Sussex (funnily enough). David and his team are promoting their local food and drink suppliers, we will be sharing the stage with the butcher and extolling on the virtues of beer and food paring. 7.30pm onwards.
Back at the GBBF earlier this year, I met with my mate Rich from Magic Rock. Suitably refreshed, the conversation turned to brewing, being mutual fans of each others beer this inevitably led to the subject of doing a collaboration brew together. At this point, head brewer Stu was not aware of our plans but seemed equally excited about the project when we decided to tell him. The...
A few hours later,we were in Ceske Budejovice (excuse my lack of accents over letters – it would take me eons to work out how to do clever stuff like that), where we found Adrian Tierney-Jones nursing a pint of Budvar. And that was where we were going next, Budweiser Budvar, you know, the original one. We were met by the 3 top dudes in the shiny visitors centre (I was amongst...
Somehow I managed to wangle a place on a trip to the Czech Republic, organised by James Allen and the lovely Jan, from the Czech Tourist board, along with the likes of Mark Dredge and Claire Dodd, visiting a few breweries and finishing off at the Slunce ve Skle beer festival. Awesome! We flew into Prague, arriving late at night with just enough time to sling our bags down in the...
A little while ago my good friends Tony and Dom, landlords of the Snowdrop Inn in Lewes asked me to curate their beer festival for Lewes’ annual Octoberfeast. If you are fortunate enough to frequent this excellent pub, then you will know that Tony and Dom always do things a little differently – they really want everything they put their names to, to be exceptional. So...
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