Some thoughts on why I decided not to bother with Dry January this year: www.fuggled.net/2026/01/why-...

Pet annoyance...restaurants that bleat loudly about being farm to table, committed to local, and high quality artisanal products....and then have a distinctly third rate beer list, and a desultory single cider. What to pair with my $25 appetizer...Miller Lite? Yeah, fuck off.

Having done my review of beer, time to move on to cider... www.fuggled.net/2025/12/fugg...

And, the overall Fuggled beer of 2025 is... www.fuggled.net/2025/12/fugg...

The annual review continues into darkness... www.fuggled.net/2025/12/fugg...

The annual review continues with beers between orange and brown... www.fuggled.net/2025/12/fugg...

Your Yuletide beery news was brought to you by @stanhieronymus.bsky.social @petebrownbeer.bsky.social @larsga.bsky.social @boakandbailey.bsky.social @velkyal.bsky.social @pelliclemag.com @davidjesudason.bsky.social and odd tales of very naughty behaviour. Not too late! Get on Santa’s good side!!

It's annual drinking review season!! And getting me started, as usual, is pale beers... www.fuggled.net/2025/12/fugg...

A quite brilliant read, laden with nostalgia for a beer I once loved.

New post on #Fuggled. This week is the 15th anniversary of Morana, America's first authentic Czech tmavé pivo, being brewed at Devils Backbone. So, of course, I will be brewing my homebrew version. #homebrewlager #tmavepivo #lagerislife www.fuggled.net/2025/12/mora...

My first piece for @ciderreview.bsky.social, where I do a tasting of ciders from around Virginia made with just our local apple, the Virginia Hewe's Crab.

My current #homebrew on tap is "Supercharged Bitter". Pretty simple grist, just Murphy & Rude English Pale and Biscuit malts. Hopped with Fuggles for an estimated 38 IBUs, and fermented with good old S-04 to give me an abv of 5.3%.

New post on #Fuggled, in which I revisit Unibroue's La Fin du Monde... www.fuggled.net/2025/11/old-...

Wondering if anyone noticed the reference to a Pixar movie in my Pellicle piece last week...

Looking forward to tomorrow and a cessation of fecking political hatchet job ads on every conceivable platform. If it wasn't for the fact that it would get struck down as unconstitutional, I'd love to see a rule that candidates for office can only speak about themselves, their policies, their plans.

So....which hallow is everyone dressing up as tomorrow?

Starting to think it would be seasonally appropriate for my Halloween costume (if I bothered with such shite) to be a Santa Claus suit.

Diane Flynt is key not just to the renaissance in cider throughout the South, but also at the very heart of orcharding for apples, specifically cider apples. It is always a joy to speak with her about not just cider apples, but growing apples for cider - an important distinction. #craftcider

My youngest just said... "Daddy, who is Satan? The God of music?" Hell, yeah!!!

What a great week of learning about brewers ploughing their own furrow. After the wonderful piece on @pelliclemag.com yesterday, @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social bring this utter, utter delight: youtu.be/xmJo-tCM-0A?...

A brilliant read from @lilywaite.bsky.social for this week's @pelliclemag.com feature!! Sounds so much like my kind of place, and trying to blag a business trip to London to the list... www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

An honorable mention from @nagbw.bsky.social for "Virginia Cider: A Scrumptious History"!! Look at the folks that placed though...I am thrilled beyond words!

As usual, the doctrinally pure of VA's craft beer community are pointedly ignoring the fact that Devils Backbone won multiple medals at #GABF, just as they did with this year's World Beer Cup results, just as they did with last year's GABF...you get the picture.

Glorious from @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social about @teamutopian.bsky.social - wish they were available in VA. Love the bit showing the difference decoction makes, staggering there are still folks that believe it is unnecessary, dafties all of them. Go watch, get thirsty. youtu.be/H1HRhgPf5lw?...

New post on #Fuggled, no, really. Another Old Friends post, this time revisiting the height of 90s beery cool, Boddingtons. www.fuggled.net/2025/09/old-... #beer

All-foam mlíko pours got trendy in craft beer circles. But now feels like the right time for řezané pivo, the Czech special pour layering dark and pale lagers. It’s perfect for fall. (Illustration: 3 mugs of striped řezané pivo.) vinepair.com/articles/rez...

New post on Fuggled (no, honestly)...in which I take a trip down a Belgian memory lane, with some horse racing thrown in too. www.fuggled.net/2025/09/old-...

Aldi without German stuff is lame.

Tettnang grown Mittelfrüher is a cracking hop.

And now I am homesick, thirsty, and plotting a homebrew version. Kudos to @pelliclemag.com for such a great piece about an iconic beer. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

Erm....

Very interesting...

Now I am hungry. youtu.be/-PQS7peNVMQ?...

Brewing my house best bitter recipe today, should be ready just in time for the leaves to start turning... Endeavour hops have quickly become a favourite and now I feel like exploring more of the new British hops, any suggestions? #homebrew

Come join the BeerSky Football League for this season: fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto... #fantasyfootball #PremierLeague

In the spirit of this, can we please stop referring to Budvar, as much as I love them, and the "original" Budweiser. They are not, never have been, and never will be. 1895 is a good hundred years later than 1795 when Bürgerliches Brauhaus Budweis was founded, known today as Samson.

One of the things I love about @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social videos is their focus on, you know, beer. The Cask Ale series is delightful, especially places like Shepherd Neame and Timothy Taylor. Watching them at places like Budvar, their reverence for the liquid is evident, and it's so refreshing.

Fun fact, there are 4000 bee species that are native to North America, including the delightful blue orchard bee. Many are more efficient pollinators than introduced species, such as the honey bee. www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-man...

Citations are important. Quoting a "source" that isn't private communication, such as an interview, simply MUST be cited or I will not trust your interpretation of history. Remember in school maths you were required to show your working, the same applies to writing - show your research and cite.

New post on #Fuggled. Brewing at home, Victorian working class style... www.fuggled.net/2025/07/homebrew-victorian-style.html #homebrew #VictorianEra

You really would think that people who insist on calling themselves "patriots" would be aware of a country's legal system, especially an MP. For example, there is no such thing as "British law". The UK has 3 legal systems, Scots, English, and Northern Irish, all are distinct from each other.

My only comment on the whole Coldplay thing is the misogyny of so much of the reporting. The CEO has been reported consistly as such, marking his rank and status. The Chief People Officer has been invariably referred to, dismissively, as "the HR woman". She was as much an executive as he was.

New post on #Fuggled... Mr Bílek, the shoemaker, has a knack for collecting donations in a legendary beer hall. www.fuggled.net/2025/07/coll...

New post on #Fuggled... An update on the Haus Lagerbier project as we move into the second half of the year. www.fuggled.net/2025/07/haus... #homebrew

New post on #Fuggled... I am stuck, need to break the log jam. www.fuggled.net/2025/07/stuc...

Not going to lie, I will miss this iteration of Haus Lagerbier when the keg kicks - likely this weekend.

Saw a sign at the Cville #NoKings to the effect that "the people are the 4th branch of government". Respectfully, this is wrong. We the People are the First branch of government. All executive power derives from us. The people alone are sovereign, and government exists to serve us, and us alone.

Hope there is a buy-back clause in the deal taking Caoimhin Kelleher to Brentford from #LFC. I don't want to be a downer but if Mamardashvili doesn't work out I'd have him back in a heartbeat.

Thinking about methods of dispense and wondering if before the invention of CO2 being used to push beer from a keg, was all Central European beer gravity served from a stichfaß setup, or did they use beer engine type devices go pump the beer?

Real Madrid wanted Trent so badly they didn't want to buy him. Happy to part with £50m for Huijsen and €60m for Carreras, though. I would never boo an #LFC player in the shirt, but Trent has shown his colours, and they aren't red. Liverpool have lost better players and survived, we will again.