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Blue Point Beer & Food dinners
I’ve been flexing my beer and food muscles (or should I say scallops *check the menu) recently by hosting some dinners for Long Island NY brewery Blue Point. As they currently only import their Toasted...
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Moving on…
In April 2014 and July 2016 I wrote about moving on from The Thatchers Arms, and from London Brewing Co and The Bull respectively. In both of those posts I didn’t know what was coming next. This time I...
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Lockdown Beer Bread with no Bread Flour
Everybody has been struggling to get at least one supply, whether it’s loo roll, pasta or mince it seems the public have been panic buying good and proper… Ever since lockdown in the UK started my...
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Red Lion, Great Bowden circa 1996 – 97First pub job at 16, holiday work. Pot Wash and plated their famous salad garnish with 50 ingredients including baked beans and strawberries! Drank Killkenney...
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A panegyric on past pubs
I was lucky enough to work in pubs for 20 years. I love pubs dearly and this Bank Holiday weekend my thoughts have been of the staff who aren’t able to work, the locals who aren’t able to socialise,...
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Remembering pubs
I’ve been thinking lots about pubs while they’ve been closed for the past 11 weeks. Admittedly that’s partly because my role is dependent on them, but it’s more than that. I love pubs, I always have...
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Why I won’t be visiting a pub on July 4th
I am so pleased, and so excited that the hospitality industry has been given the green light to open. It’s been extremely tough for them over lockdown, and it will continue to be tough for months to...
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In anticipation of cask…
My first experience of looking after cask beer was when I was working my way through Uni, or possibly more accurately working through my uni days to pay for my drinks… I was at Brighton Uni and circa...
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Incompetence piled on incompetence
Or perhaps it’s more sinister? Is Boris deliberating trying to kill off hospitality? I’m not sure he’s the temperance type, but… Call me a cynic, but EOTHO (Eat Out to Help Out) could now be construed...
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Substantial Meals and how to serve them…
I’m sure I don’t need to convince you that the new Tier 2 restrictions for hospitality businesses are ill thought out, punative, and poorly communicated with no scientific merit. Just in case you’re...
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