I know I don't really write very often about cider on here - though of course you know I wrote a book on cider in Virginia, there's a link over there to it ...

I love the end of July...our annual week at the beach in Florida is over, usually the temperature is starting to moderate (and it is a very pleasant mid ...

Yesterday I introduced you to our friend Mr Bílek, shoemaker and fundraiser for Czech national causes extraordinaire, yet he was far from alone in his ...

There is something delightfully pompous, perhaps a little insane, about book titles in the Victorian era that always reminds me of the "Connections" TV ...

Dipping into some of the dimmest and most distant of crevices in my drinking memories today for this resurrection of my Old Friends series. Back in the ...

I am starting to think that my eldest brother has an awful lot to answer for, and not just the horse racing I mentioned in the last post. Fun fact, when my ...

 Yikes, where did the last couple of months go? The cynic side of me says "right down the shitter" whereas the more considered side says "life's just ...

Tmavé, the Czech style dark lager, has been on my mind a lot recently.Not just because Morana is available at Devils Backbone Basecamp at the moment, I ...

The Virginia brewing scene is a poorer place today.Do we still have around 350 breweries in a state with a population of 8.6 million, giving us a brewery ...

The price of beer has been on my mind a fair bit lately.At the weekend I kicked my first keg of homebrew for the 2024, a 5.1% amber kellerbier that I ...