As you may have gathered from the previous post, I spent a quiet birthday at home with the family, or rather with Eileen, as Matthew was at work. I ...

Early yesterday afternoon, the Bailey family returned from a short but relaxing four-day cruise across the North Sea to the port of Hamburg and back. This ...

I’ve enjoyed her work these past couple of years. I hate to see her go. A taste:This is my final column for The Times.In the memo I wrote three years ago ...

Last Wednesday I took the day off from work to accompany son Matthew on a trip to a town that neither of us had visited before. I perhaps ought to say ...

We now come to the second day of my South Coast mini-break, and despite the late-night road works going on close to the Chichester Inn (installing a ...

Thomas Hardy’s Ale is back in the UK and arriving on bars and speciality beer shop shelves, near you, from this week. This quintessential Barley Wine will ...

After the last week’s bad news, regarding the insolvency of By the Horns brewery, there’s more than a glimmer of good news on a different front concerning ...

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I had an exceedingly rare experience the other day, when I awarded a beer on Untappd, with a score of 5.0. Those of you that are familiar with this beer ...

Today's sampling is Runner's Reward: Paul's Saison. A Rye Saison brewed by Oxus Brewing made for the after-party of the Paul Wawryko 5k Memorial ...