Over the last few years a few beers have come and gone, died a natural if not a slow painful death. Amongst the myriad of beers to have slowly gone the way of the Dodo, have been a couple of big names, Blue Sky Brewery, VB Raw and Crown Gold (not to be confused with Crown Golden Ale) are three that spring to mind. I never personally knew whether to be overcome by grief or extreme happiness as some...
The beer industry is in a funny sort of spot lately. The average consumption of beer is decreasing, but yet the growth in craft beer has never been more active than it is now. There has been more craft breweries pop up over the course of the last few years than there are pimples on a teenage school boy. One of my mates recently said it was kind of like the music scene during the late 70’s and earl...