Pete Brown

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHY IPA WAS SUPPOSEDLY SO STRONG AND HOPPY, LOOK NOT TO THE BREWERIES, BUT TO INDIA... Today is apparently International Let's Argue About The Mythology Of IPA Day. ...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-quick-blog-post-for-ipa-day.html

I'M DOING LOTS OF EVENTS THIS SUMMER - STARTING CLOSER TO HOME, THEN GOING FURTHER AWAY. SOME OF THEM MUST BE NEAR YOU, SURELY... For the eighth year, my wife Liz has organised the Stoke Ne...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2017/05/book-events-this-summer-and-stoke.html

MY FIRST BOOK ABOUT BEER SINCE 2009 HITS UK SHELVES NEXT WEEK - AND NORTH AMERICA LATER THIS YEAR. It's been a long wait - nearly two and a half years - for those who pledged when I fi...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2017/05/miracle-brew-is-coming-at-last.html

WHEN I WROTE THE APPLE ORCHARD, THERE WERE EDITS. I WANTED TO GIVE THE ORIGIN STORY OF THE APPLE, BUT THIS WAS CUT FROM THE FINAL BOOK BECAUSE BY THE TIME I'D FINISHED IT, THE APPLE ORCHARD WA...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2017/04/long-read-story-of-forgotten-genius-who.html

THE BAD BOYS OF BREWING RECENTLY SOLD A 22% STAKE OF THEIR COMPANY TO AN INVESTMENT FIRM. SO? First, I have a terrible confession to make. Remember when John Lydon made those butter ads? I'm a...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-i-cant-get-too-excited-about.html

THE VIBRANCY OF LONDON'S BREWING SCENE IN 2017 SHOWS JUST HOW ANTIQUATED THE ARGUMENT OVER FORMAT HAS BECOME.  On Wednesday I opened the 33rd London Drinker festival, in a grand old hall ...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2017/03/why-craft-keg-whatever-that-is-is.html

ONE OF THE GREATEST BRITISH NOVELISTS OF THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, THE LATE IAIN BANKS DEVELOPED PARALLEL TRACKS IN HIS BOOK PUBLISHING. IRRITATINGLY AND WONDERFULLY PROLIFIC, HE'D A WRITE 'MAINSTREA...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2017/03/new-book-news-not-for-first-time-im.html

So Lloyds of London announced last week that it is banning its employees from drinking at lunchtime. Under strict new rules, anyone found to have enjoyed a pint between the hours of 9 to 5 fac...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2017/02/remembering-lunchtime-drinking.html

BEING FACED WITH A FLIGHT OF BEERS I HAD NO DESIRE TO DRINK MADE ME THINK PHILOSOPHICALLY FOR A BIT, AND WONDER IF THERE'S A DIFFERENT NARRATIVE TO TASTING AND ENJOYING BEER. I love judging t...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2017/01/tasting-beer-some-thoughts-and.html

OBVIOUSLY YOU'VE ALREADY BOUGHT MINE (OR DROPPED STRONG HINTS TO HAVE IT BOUGHT FOR YOU) BUT IT'S BEEN A BUMPER YEAR FOR BEER BOOKS. HERE ARE MY THREE FAVOURITES OF 2016. THE WORLD ATLAS OF BEE...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/12/beery-books-for-christmas.html

On Thursday night the British Guild of Beer Writers named me their Beer Writer of the Year, for the third time.  I even bought a suit. It caps an incredible year for me and I'm obviously de...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/12/beer-writer-of-year.html

MY NEW BOOK ON PUBS SPANS THE WHOLE OF THE UK. SO IT ONLY SEEMS FAIR TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE PLACES WHERE IT WAS RESEARCHED. Still need that elusive Christmas present for that difficult-to-buy-f...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-pub-on-tour.html

THE APPLE ORCHARD - COMING TO A RADIO NEAR YOU... I'm enormously proud, and more than a little nervous, that this morning BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting the first episode of the serialisa...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/11/book-of-week.html

SEEMS LIKE AMERICA'S BEER JUST CAN'T STOP STEALING THINGS FROM SOUTHERN BOHEMIA... I was shocked late Friday night to see a really good beer ad from Budweiser. No, stop laughing. I've seen p...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/10/budweiser-you-cant-rush-plagiarism.html

IS THE BOOM IN CRAFT BREWING ACTUALLY NARROWING THE CHOICE OF DIFFERENT BEER STYLES WE HAVE? Last week I was invited to Germany to attend the magnificent Bar Convent Berlin , a huge trade s...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-campaign-for-good-brown-beer.html

THE SIMPLE PLEASURES OF TRAMPING ROUND AN ORCHARD. Autumn is a season of two halves. Both are definitely autumn, but one is summer's older sibling, looking back fondly, while the other is w...

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PART TWO OF MY YEAR OF WRITING DANGEROUSLY ...* Today my seventh book, The Apple Orchard , hits the shelves (hopefully. Please God let it hit at least some shelves.) When I wrote World's Best...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/09/say-hello-to-apple-orchard.html

The first of three new books from me is out now. Sort of. My book on pubs is officially released on 18 August, but it's already been spotted in Foyles and Blackwells. I was asked to do th...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-pub-cultural-institution.html

Yet again, I'm in the middle of writing a piece that addresses the idea that craft beer is 'a meaningless term,' that 'craft beer' doesn't exist because it had no precise, technical definition. ...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/08/stop-presses-definition-of-craft-beer.html

THE REASON I'M NOT BLOGGING AT THE MOMENT IS THAT I'M DEEP INTO WRITING UP MY NEXT BEER BOOK, WHAT ARE YOU DRINKING? I'M HOPING TO FINISH THIS DRAFT IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, AND IT'LL BE PUBLISHED ...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/08/long-read-burton-ipas-arrival-in-india.html

... such as coming to one of my summer festival events? This weekend it's the Stoke Newington Literary Festival . Set up by my wife Liz in 2010, it's now become recognised as one of the coolest...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/05/why-dont-you-switch-off-your-smartphone_31.html

A TANTALISING NEW SCRAP OF EVIDENCE ABOUT THE BARD'S DRINKING HABITS HAS EMERGED. The Tabard Inn, Borough High Street When I wrote Shakespeare's Local I upset some readers because I failed...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/04/shakespeares-real-local.html

TRAWLING THROUGH OLD NOTEBOOKS CAN YIELD UNEXPECTED TREASURES. The new beer book I'm currently working on was initially inspired by a few experiences that I'd never properly written up and ...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/04/when-michael-met-stef-and-martin.html

A CAUTIONARY TALE, WITH A HAPPY ENDING.  About two years ago I started getting shooting pains down my left leg. I went to the doctor about it and they said it was sciatica. Although the pain w...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/04/why-i-havent-been-blogging-much.html

The second annual Beer Marketing Awards have been moved from 14th April, and will now take place in 8th September at the Boiler House, the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1. The postp...

http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2016/02/beer-marketing-awards-new-awards-date.html