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Worlds greatest beers

What makes a great beer? That’s the question we wanted to answer when we came up with this book. You might think that would be an easy question: after all, how many beer books don’t simply tell you the best beers in the world? Well this one does. But we decided that just telling you about the best beers wouldn’t do anyone any good; it certainly wouldn’t change your life or make you love beer more. We wanted to find out what made these beers so special, and what they had done for those who drank them. So we asked eight of the world’s most renowned beer writers and influencers to select their own list of great beers: not just the ones they thought should be in this book, but also the ones they loved themselves. To earn its place on their list, each had to be more than just a drink; it had to connect to something: a place, person, cherished memory.

Jonny Garrett

Beer Writer of the Year 2019  author of four books, and founder of Youtube’s The Craft Beer Channel. Independent, Good Beer Hunting and the Brewers Journal.

 

 

Cider blending & maturation: Pt. 1

A CAMRA Learn & Discover video guide

In this 2 part series on cider blending and maturation, Bill Bradshaw guides us through a series of conversations with some of the foremost blenders at the zenith of the cider-makers craft. The kind of ciders that find us at the bottom of an empty glass, savouring the moment and dreaming of what led us there. This series features Tom Oliver of Oliver’s Cider, founders of Little Pomona cider, James and Susanna Forbes, founders of Find and Foster fine ciders, Mat and Polly Hilton and retired biochemist, cider maker and veteran of Long Ashton Research Station (the National Fruit and Cider Institute), Andrew Lea. (This video features robust language in praise of cider).

Jonny Garrett

Beer Writer of the Year 2019, author of four books, and founder of Youtube’s The Craft Beer Channel. 

To earn its place on their list, each had to be more than just a drink; it had to connect to something: a place, person, cherished memory.

— CAMRA

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