Hamburg Heavy

Delicious new wave beers in Hamburg from brewpubs brauhaus Joh.Albrecht's Messing (hazy helles) and Kupfer (malty dunkel) as well as interesting sprightly hazy Pilsner at Eugen Block's waterfront Bliockhaus

Bard beer

Been drinking SUA Stratford upon Avon ale in Norman Knight pub Whichford! Great beer great pub 

Canned cool?

Doing what used to be unthinkable - other than at an Australian beach party - drinking a can of beer! In a pub!!! Bermondsey Brewer Fourpure's Session IPA! And it's delicious!! Not at all gassy - far less so than keg or bottle! Obviously needs to be poured if you don't want aluminium on your lips, but from a glass impossible to tell what container it came in! I would probably have guessed cask!

Maybe a bit too much old prejudice lingering there... 

Anspach and Hopday latest

Spent an hour or so this afternoon at my London local brewer Anspach&Hopday sampling some of Paul's new creations: a Kentucky Common, flavoursome US style bitter, Golden Rauchbeer, an adaptation of the golden bitter style flavoured with smoked German malt. Their Sunday trade now flourishing and Jack looking for a weekend bar manager. Civilised applicants only please. 

Burning Sky

Enjoying very fine glass of Burning Sky IPA (more a pale ale really at just 4.4% but all the more drinkable for that!) at the Bottle Shop (curiously mostly draft these days) in Druid Street SE1

Sea water?

Definitely most quirky beer I have tasted this summer is Moustache brewed in Spain using purified sea water (don't ask

Why other than it's designed to go with oysters). Delicious semi sweet porter drunk in Ronda! 

Lighthouse lights up Autumn

Sitting over pint of excellent Adnams Lighthousw in equally excellent traditional  London pub Shipwright's Arms on Tooley Street by London Bridge. Great old pub with wide range of real ales rather than trendy modern craft: Doom Bar, Deuchars IPA, Tribute, but it is the Adnams brew that really lights up the afternoon: blonde and full of flavour with gentle malt balanced out by a hoppy aftertaste that makes me think of late summer evenings. Perfect for early autumn!