Beer
Always Burning: 150 Years of the Carlsberg Research Laboratory
It changed the world of beer once, then gave the secret away. Now Carlsberg’s lab is brewing with grape skins, sorghum and kernza. Can it do it again?
Beer
It changed the world of beer once, then gave the secret away. Now Carlsberg’s lab is brewing with grape skins, sorghum and kernza. Can it do it again?
Tasting
What a spirits judge knows about scoring that tier lists don’t. Plus a rating system for everything, swearing included.
Archive
Can English whisky make sustainability part of its identity? My 2025 feature for Brewer and Distiller International, now online for the first time.
Gin
Why this isn't the gotcha you think
Pastis
Pastis insists you slow down. You can't gulp it, you can't rush the ritual, and you can't quite replicate it anywhere that isn't warm and unhurried. Which is exactly the point.
Alcohol-free
On Crodino, SanBitter, and a couple of newcomers — plus why older drinkers are quietly leading the charge on low and no
English whisky
On having a dream and doing the work: introducing my book project on English whisky, Liquid England, and what comes next.
It changed the world of beer once, then gave the secret away. Now Carlsberg’s lab is brewing with grape skins, sorghum and kernza. Can it do it again?
Beer is full of quiet, private rituals and the places we return to. You never know, in the normal run of things, that you’re having your last drink in one of your special places, so it pays to savour those stolen moments in your favourite drinking spots.
The perfect coda for an evening well spent
Mayfair cocktails can leave a bad taste in your mouth
The stories behind the drinks, including the ones my editors didn’t have room for
Finding your own mindful rhythm beats performative abstinence
The problem with cask ale isn't that young people don't drink it. It's that we haven't given them a reason to.
Beer is full of quiet, private rituals and the places we return to. You never know, in the normal run of things, that you’re having your last drink in one of your special places, so it pays to savour those stolen moments in your favourite drinking spots.
If life teaches us anything it’s that you must take your pleasure where you can. Spritzes and the aperitivo ritual can provide the firebreak we crave between work and play.
That threshold between wanting and having — when did you last notice it?
The best basement bars to explore this London Cocktail Week
In Wiltshire, Witchmark feels like an established name even before its first whisky release.
Why the idiot child of beer still delivers nostalgic charm
The perfect coda for an evening well spent
When drinking at home won’t do
8 dependable drinks to ease you into party season
Bougie bottles, custom casks - it's all getting a bit spenny