Ed's Beer Site

Obsessive beer nerd that I am I wouldn't normally go to the same lecture twice . But when I was invited to hear Ron Pattinson talk abou...

The latest IBD meeting I attended was about the perennial favourite hops . First we had Dr Peter Darby of Wye Hops showing us round the hop...

Once again it's clear there is still a lot of confusion about finings . Finings are used to help make beer clear by causing haze forming...

Beer hazes can be divided into microbial (i.e. caused by bacteria or yeast) and non-microbial. There are also various types of non-microbia...

The trouble with serious writing is it's bloody hard work . I've been doing some serious writing on Brettanomyces of late and it...

I'm trying to get together a list of how state controls have shaped what we drink in Britain . Of the top of my head there was: Tax o...

A friend gave me a copy of Beer and Philosophy edited by Steven D Hales recently . Though I am a man of simple tastes I have occasionally...