Brewing Folk

Mon 23 Sep 2024

Awakening the Spirits

Salena Godden : My Life In Beer

It has taken a while to write this piece about beer – my life in beer. Truth is, I have been off the beer. …

Thu 22 Aug 2024

Back in 'Bach

Matthew Shaw: My Life In Beer

Sandbach is a small market town with a lot of pubs. Stones and pubs and cobbles are some of my earliest memories …

Thu 25 Jul 2024

Mahou, Mi Amor

Martha Sprackland: My Life In Beer

I like a bougie £8 IPA as much as the next guy. A beer festival gladdens my heart; an unusual hop intrigues me; I’ll …

Tue 11 Jun 2024

This man walks into a pub …

George Shaw: My Life In Beer

Drink responsibly is what this fucking beer mat says. Jesus! I never used to drink at all. I could peel back this printed layer …

Wed 24 Apr 2024

Laatste Ronde!

Richard Foster: My Life In Beer

Saving awful afternoons in Dutch pubs I won’t be the only person who has found themselves at the end of the odd, wild, divulgence …

Wed 27 Mar 2024

Changing My Mind

Ali Millar: My Life In Beer

I recently converted to beer. Until late last year, I’d always preferred spirits; I like feeling fast and half empty. I was 16 when …

Thu 29 Feb 2024

A Sour Summer

Audrey Golden: My Life In Beer

Until the summer of 2012, I’d have told you I didn’t like beer. Didn’t buy it, didn’t drink it. And then I discovered the …

Wed 24 Jan 2024

None For the Road

Stu Hennigan: My Life In Beer

“Alcohol is a way of life. It’s my way of life. And I aim to keep it.” – The Simpsons Season Eight, Episode Eighteen, Homer Versus the …

Sat 23 Dec 2023

Jolly Good Fellow

DBC Pierre: My Life In Beer

‘Whiskey’s too rough, champagne costs too much, vodka puts my mouth in gear…’ Tom T Hall sang this in a country classic of the …

Mon 27 Nov 2023

Backstage Beer Bums

Joel Gion: My Life In Beer

December 10th, 1996 Tonight at The Whiskey a Go Go is for us the first time at the scene of the crime. The crime …

Thu 26 Oct 2023

I learned to drink on Ale

Luke Turner: My Life In Beer

It was perhaps unusual to grow up with the fear that indulging in things I enjoyed might come punished with eternal damnation. I belonged …

Tue 26 Sep 2023

Through Silver in Blood, or, Alcohol - a sober assessment

Dan Franklin: My Life In Beer

I knew deep down, in then some unknowable place within me, that I had a problem with alcohol when I first got damagingly drunk. …

Tue 29 Aug 2023

My Life in Beer

Harry Sword: My Life In Beer

When I was a toddler my mum turned around in her studio to find me swigging from a jam jar full of turps used …

Fri 14 Jul 2023

Be Intoxicated

Richard Milward: My Life In Beer

My favourite literary guidance comes from Charles Baudelaire’s ‘Enivrez-vous’ (‘Be Intoxicated’, or just ‘Get Drunk’), one of the prose-poems in his 1869 Le Spleen …

Tue 30 May 2023

Drinking for England

Adelle Stripe: My Life In Beer

By the A64, the town where I grew up sits a mile from the dual carriageway, on either side of the River Wharfe. The …

Sat 22 Apr 2023

Old Men With Beer Guts and Dominos

Will Burns: My Life In Beer

It’s not quite true to say I grew up in pubs - though of course that might depend on exactly how far into adulthood …

Wed 22 Mar 2023

Have you got a Mild on?

Jennifer Lucy Allan: My Life In Beer

My sisters and I clutched one another in horror. "No!" I wailed. "Whyyyyyy?!" my middle sister cried. The youngest gasped, too grief-stricken to speak. …

Wed 22 Feb 2023

Hopsickle: My Life in Beer

David Keenan: My Life In Beer

The first alcohol I ever consumed was a can of Strongbow that I split with my mate Stuart Geddes (Gekkie) while walking round Craigneuk …

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