It’s tough job, walking around, tasting lots of beer and talking to brewers – but someone has to do it. The Imperial Beer Club team has been researching the great and the good imperial stouts at this year’s Craft Beer Rising festival, which has just finished at the Old Truman Brewery on London’s famous Brick […]
Magic Rock Neo-Human Cannonball | Imperial Beer Club
With the exception of a few production techniques that use isinglass and gelatine, it’s not often that beers are unsuitable for vegetarians. Even rarer is when a beer is non-veggie-friendly because of its very ingredients, yet imperial oyster stout is one of the few drinks that can lay claim to this title. Because some breweries that produce oyster […]
One Mile End El Topo | Imperial Beer Club
Could this be North London’s answer to the Bermondsey Beer Mile? We took a trip to explore some of North London’s best spots for craft beer, from the lofty heights of Highgate Village to the fringe of the congestion zone. Here’s the map. There’s about 15 minutes walking between each pub (total walk of c.6km), […]
Simon Martin started reviewing real ale and craft beers on YouTube with a review of England’s Gold by Badger. Six years later he’s come a long way having reviewed thousands of beers, and built a legion of followers who look to him for advice on what to drink. I caught up with Simon to ask […]
We can track the origins of Imperial beer back to the 1720s in London when Porter became popular in the City (especially with porters; hence its name). Porter had a strong flavour, took longer to spoil not being easily affected by heat and increased in alcohol with age. Perhaps crucially it was also cheaper than […]