Just under a century ago, in his magnum opus ‘The Decline of the West’, Oswald Spengler, a German cultural philosopher, tried to encompass the entire history of humanity. Unsurprisingly, his meandering through European culture was not a light read. While, in our...
Cereal and souring, lactose and lager. Four words that might not quite do full justice to the current state of the craft beer market in North America, but neither fall far wide of the mark. Mind you, if you only follow what beers are being written and talked about in...
With an annual consumption of 45.7 billion litres, China is now the world’s largest beer market. However, what you might not know is that beer, or at least modern brewing, is a relatively recent phenomenon in China. It was only in 1900, and the arrival of a Russian...
