Rainy Saturday in Bermondsey and it’s time for a cider tour in an area becoming famous for its micro-breweries where it has acquired the label The Bermondsey Beer Mile. After a few years popularity in the 70s, home brewing went into decline but has bounced back strongly on both

And the Beer Hatch, match and despatch as the saying goes for the three times when most people go to church or perhaps when families get together these days. With Cathy’s family over from Zambia for the funeral there is the chance to catch up. Turns out one nephew has his inheri

Honey Blonde President So President Obama brews his own beer? We know he can write, where I can recommend his first book Dreams from my Father which unsurprisingly has spawned a rash of other books including Dreams from my REAL Father He doesn’t like the British very much (or at

Belgium – home of: Hercule Poirot, Tin Tin, 2,600 chocolatiers (UK has 80), Charlemagne (founder of the Holy Roman Empire), Magritte, Jean-Claude van Damme, Eddy Merckx (5x winner Tour de France), Gerardus Mercator (think maps) to name but a few – not bad for a country onl