Beer Tasting Language
When tasting beer, describing it as having coffee, treacle, and liquorice flavours, or crisp and light body with subtle herbal…
Quality, Service, Knowledge – Why Educating Hospitality Staff Is So Important
Imagine walking into a sales showroom to buy a car and the staff knew nothing about the cars? It is…
Paradise Island
I’ve been to paradise and it is called Tasmania. An island of 26,410 square miles of which one third is…
An Ale-gebra Formula To Drink By
When I founded my business School of Booze to educate about and celebrate alcohol I could not have imagined that…
No and Low – It’s All Go
No-Low alcohol beer is in a golden age. I do still hear sarcastic comments from some people along the lines of…
Intoxication The Fourth Drive
Of all human experiences the English language has more words for the state of inebriation than any other. From ankled…
The International Language of Beer
When Ludwig Zamenhof invented Esperanto in 1887 his goal was for humans to communicate in a common language so peace…
Cider – The Most Misunderstood Drink on the Bar
A woman walks into a pub. If that sounds like the first line of a joke, you’re right but this…
In Defence of Booze
We regularly see the headlines in the media about binge drinking and anti-social behaviour. It is always negative. News outlets…
Just What the Doctor Ordered
‘Wine is a food, a medicine, and a poison it’s just a question of dose’ Paracelsus, a Swiss physician, wrote…