Mark Dredge - Beer

I've developed a set of six Beer Flavour Wheels and they are available on my other site: BeerDredge . The BeerDredge Beer Flavour Wheels present a lexicon of the most common terms used to...

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I've got a new website! Anything new will now be posted to www.beerdredge.com . You can also read more about my books, my work and there's an updated blog over there.  You can also see the ...

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The Beer Bucket List is a collection of essential world beer experiences. It’s the most important old breweries and the industry-changing new brewers; it’s the greatest world beer ba...

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The kegs have been emptied, the cash has been counted and the Charity Beer Night raised £3,700 for Evelina Children’s Hospital ! Thanks so much to everyone who came along, thanks to al...

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With a week to go before the charity beer event (tickets here ), which I’m arranging to make money for Evelina Children’s Hospital as part of my London Marathon fundraising , it’s tim...

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This year I’m running the London Marathon and raising money for Evelina Children's Hospital . In March 2013, my week-old nephew Lucas was rushed to Evelina where he spent a week in int...

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It was at the exact moment that thousands of people dressed in lederhosen and dirndl started singing a German drinking song in thick Portuguese accents that I had to step back and really think ...

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I spent last summer in the kitchen cooking with beer for my next book, the unambiguously titled COOKING WITH BEER . The first copies came back from the printers last week and that inspired m...

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In 2013, sales of Session IPA grew 450% in the US, helping it jump from non-existent to a core range beer within two years. And because the US is where many brewers look for the latest beer...

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A decade ago, an Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman walked into a pub... One said ‘I’ll have a bitter’, another said ‘I’ll have a stout,’ the other said ‘I’ll have a lager’....

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In my Golden Pints I struggled to pick out one favourite non-British draft beer. So, like I did in 2014 , I’m picking out a few of the beers I enjoyed most from my travels this year (a fe...

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BEST UK CASK BEER: ST AUSTELL BIG JOB At GBBF, surrounded by 700 other beers, I just wanted glass after glass of Big Job. I find it difficult to pick any runner-ups as my drinking has become ...

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This one was the biggest surprise. Shock, even. Shit, I said aloud at my desk. Wow. Fuck. Meantime was expected. Lagunitas was unexpected. Ballast Point was unprecedented (one billion dollar...

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The smoking lamb chops of Whitechapel curry houses are legendary because they are so delicious. And as many of the better places are bring your own, you can eat them while drinking delicious ...

http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2015/11/curried-dunkelweizen-lamb-chops.html

I’m having a thing with tacos right now. It started over the summer when I made some using chicken brined in lager and lime, also using lager in the corn taco mix (this is in book four, Co...

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Cellarmaker , San Francisco. At the forefront of new IPAs The world’s greatest craft beer style, the one with the most storied history, the one most misunderstood, most widely brewed, has...

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On Tuesday 13 October I’m having the launch for The Best Beer in the World at Bottle Shop in Bermondsey. I’ve picked some of my favourite beers to go on the bar (and you’ll get a ...

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I couldn’t quite take the picture in time. I saw it, fumbled to unlock my phone, fingers sticky from street food, and I tapped the camera icon, but the scooter carrying five silver kegs wa...

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Yesterday I had beer-cured bacon with bacon stout ketchup for breakfast. I’d started making it a week earlier, brining belly pork in smoked porter, brown sugar, maple syrup and salt. I too...

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There were only so many beers I could write about in The Best Beer in the World and only so much space to pick out individual glasses of beer from the travels, meaning many important and wo...

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Five years ago I drank the best beer in the world. I was sitting on a hot Greek beach with a cold glass of lager and it was incredible. Nothing had ever refreshed me quite so completely, n...

http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2015/08/my-new-book-best-beer-in-world.html

In 2014 I’ve drunk beer in 17 different countries across five continents, visiting 136 breweries along the way. If I hadn’t drunk so much over the last 12 months then it would’ve been an u...

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My second book, Beer and Food , is out now! The title hints at what it’s about, but let me tell you a bit more… My goal was to make a book about the topic of putting beer and food tog...

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Easter means chocolate. It also means a long weekend of beering (that’s what it means for me, anyway). It’s also a fine time to bring beer and chocolate together and make truffles. The g...

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The bastards beat me to it. I had this plan, you see, to try and make the most beery burger the world had ever seen. A cheeky little tie-in to plug my new book – Beer and Food, coming so...

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