Pint by the River: Green Jack Brewery Mahseer IPA – 5%
by Ben McCormick Ah, the legendary mahseer. Member of the carp family found in the rivers and sometimes lakes of northern India, Nepal and other parts of southern Asia. Famed for its almost brutal strength and ability to strip line off a reel quicker than you can say Jack Robinson, the mahseer is prized by [...]
Shadows and Reflections – Ben McCormick
27 December 2011 // Pint/Cake //Shadows & Reflections
In which, as the year comes to its end, our friends and collaborators look back and share their moments When first asked, I didn’t much feel like dredging through the year as it’s been something of a stinker, filled with many long, murky shadows on which to reflect. Friends lost, family torn apart, penury, loss [...]
Island Hopping
19 December 2011 // Books //Pint/Cake
Caught By The River’s Robin Turner – along with co-conspirator Paul Moody – set out on a Search For The Perfect Pub. Using George Orwell’s 1946 piece The Moon Under Water as a routemap, the pair travelled the length of the country talking to publicans, politicians and pop stars about why that most British of [...]
Pint By The River: Beer War Of The Roses (Round II)
 Ben McCormick & Roger Clapham BM: Aha. What’s this I see? A beer from York Brewery, with whom I’ve crossed swords before. Then it was the yappy Yorkshire Terrier, which though fairly standard had enough brio about it to stand repeated drinking. This one is a much more robust affair, doubtless stuffed to the [...]
Beer Advent Calendar
It’s that time again when Pint by the River correspondent Ben McCormick revives his genius Beer Advent Calendar. This year’s theme is ‘Beers of London’.
Pint by the River: Beer of the Roses (Part 1)
By Ben McCormick & Roger Clapham BM: Yorkshire. Land of flat caps, too many sheepdog trials and the curmudgeon. Loser of the original Wars of the Roses and, amusingly, relegated to the second tier of County Cricket again this year. It’s England’s largest county, despite the modernisation of some parts into Humberside and Cleveland, and [...]
Looking For The Moon Under Water
23 November 2011 // Books //Pint/Cake
by Robin What is the perfect British pub? Although it’s an innocuous enough question, the answer will likely be entirely different dependant on the person asked and their state of mind at the time. Having turned 40 this year, my current vision of public house perfection is barely recognisable from the boozer I idly dreamt [...]
Pint by the River: Williams Brothers Heather Ale & 7 Giraffes
by Roger Clapham Without wishing to resort to regional stereotyping I have to confess that having both ginger hair and a fondness for alcohol meant my first trip to Glasgow felt like a homecoming. Yet even casting aside the traditional image of the hard-drinking Scot, you never really hear a lot about Scottish beer these [...]
Pint by the River: Kernel Brewery Suke Quto Coffee IPA Batch 2
by Ben McCormick It’s more than likely a truism, but stuff that’s home-made increases tremendously in value the older you get. Remember at school when you’d sneer at a home-made birthday card or, worse still, a hastily constructed present clearly completed by the donor’s fair hand? Heaven forbid actually being caught giving one to anyone [...]
The Caught by the River Bar at Port Eliot Festival
So hopefully you’re aware of the music we have lined up and the whole host of other entertaining offerings. Now it’s time to talk beer. At last year’s festival we produced our own Caught by the River beer. We sold it in bottles and it’s popularity meant that not one made it back home. Our [...]
