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WHAT ARE YOUR TOP THREE TIPS FOR BEERS LOVERS TO GET MORE FROM THEIR EXPERIENCES? 1. TRAVEL. Travel everywhere. Go to Chicago and Auckland and Prague and Tokyo and wherever you can find beer – which is everywhere! Immerse yourself in other beer cultures as this is the best way to give you increased perspective on your own. 2. CARRY A CAMERA WITH YOU. It doesn’t need to be an expensive one, but pictures are a wonderful way of helping you to recall highlights of a trip. I’m also a professional photographer and for me one photo can be as valuable as several pages of notes. 3. WRITE ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES. Nothing crystallises your perspective more. I love to see new beer blogs appear on the scene, and I feel that there’s room for plenty more. Oh, and a bonus tip, tell people about your blog. You might just experience a similar journey to myself.
My work takes me to the USA a lot, and this gives me great perspective of where I think the UK industry is heading. The US beer industry is way larger and far more corporate than much of the UK. But it’s still edge-of-your-seat exciting, which gives me the same excitement about how the UK beer industry is maturing. I just hope those working within it can mature as fast as the industry itself. What are your favourite kinds of beer and why? A classic American IPA in the 7% range will always be right in my wheelhouse. I like bitter, citrus flavours, confident malt notes and a tantalisingly bitter finish. Think Odell IPA, Russian River Pliny the Elder or something like Magic Rock Cannonball in the UK. I love the way the extra weight of a 7% or 8% beer adds definition to bold hop flavours. I’m a huge fan of mixed fermentation sour beers, particularly saisons from the likes of Burning Sky or Mills at home, or folks like Allagash and New Belgium in the US. For me, these beers are getting to be as complex and interesting as some of the best wines. I love sharing big 750ml bottles of these with friends (or, sometimes sharing a whole one with myself,) and would like to see more of these styles packaged in this way. I also really love lagers from the Bavarian and Bohemian regions of Germany and Czechia, something with soft bready malts and snappy herbal hops. Sometimes it’s the I REALLY NEED TO MENTION CASK, BECAUSE I LOVE MY CASK BEER, ESPECIALLY RED ALES AND STOUTS AT THE MOMENT. I’D LOVE TO SEE MORE BREWERIES BACKING DARKER STYLES. only style of beer I want to drink. Finally, I really need to mention cask, because I love my cask beer, especially red ales and stouts at the moment. I’d love to see more breweries backing darker styles. So basically, I like everything. On the future of beer – what excites you the most? And what worries you (if anything)? I’m an optimist, so I find the evolution of the industry as a whole very exciting, despite the challenges it faces such as consolidation and things like cask being in slow decline. However, I think the consolidation of cask could be turned to the brewers’ advantage. Less cask on the bar could be an opportunity for better cask on the bar. I’m glad to see young brewers like Cloudwater and Verdant deciding to back the format, however hyperbolic you may feel this to be. I’m also fascinated where the world of beer starts to blur, as it meets fellow industries like wine, cider and coffee. These industries are so very different, but at the same time share an immense amount in common. I’m excited to see what happens at the fringes of these industries as they, hopefully, begin to look more alike. I feel this is where beer’s future is. And that’s the one thing that worries me, at the moment, beer’s distant future, so 10 or 20 years, feels very blurry to me. There is an immense amount of uncertainty ahead, but hopefully we can work together and chart strong routes through any choppy waters that may block our path.
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