Autumn sunshine comes as peace descends after a stressful few weeks, seeing the fruition of yours and a lot of volunteers work at Norwich beer festival come to a successful end (until next February). It is also helpful to be sitting in a brewery sampling well crafted barrel aged beers while your husband and the…
Summer has stepped aside for the chill of autumn, and I have been on my travels. Over the years I have found that nowhere in the world is unfriendly when you are sharing their local food and drink, language is a barrier, but that’s never a case when you can point to what you want.…
Have you ever brought home a bottle of wine or some food from a holiday, raved to all of your friends about how great it is and then, in your own home find yourself staring at it, wondering if you picked up the wrong one! Part of this is down to the atmosphere and mood…
Only a few years ago there was one lonely book that extolled the virtues of Beer and Food, Garrett Olivers, The Brew Masters Table, has now become the bible to a number of people, including myself. But where it once sat forlorn on a shelf (with maybe an old book from Belgium containing the recipe…
I consider myself very lucky to come from a region of great food and drink, award winning wines, breweries, chutney makers and butchers, yet so often when we visit a restaurant of a high class we see wine offered as the pairing for the great produce the chef is raving about. I recently read, chefs…
There is a developing trend in the beer industry, the return of the Tap room, something that to me is not novel. During my tours of Europe its usual, not to find a brewery that does not have a tap. These are wonderful areas to stop and enjoy the freshest of beers, normally with something…
Spring has arrived, I think. The season has started off with some excitement, after the success of Maid In Norfolk, the first collaboration beer brewed by Norfolk Broads Brewing Company (Humpty Dumpty) as a celebration of 25 years of ownership. It was launched at the Great British Beer Festival Winter, but what also made it…
Last month our area was on a national stage in the beer world. Norwich welcomed the Great British Beer Festival to St Andrews Hall. Along side this ran the Fringe festival in the local pubs and a Beer & Fine Dining Experience at the Maids Head Hotel. This fine dining experience was an opportunity to…