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Quantock Brewery awarded SALSA plus beer standard
A SOMERSET brewery is celebrating being awarded a specialist accreditation which recognises its high standards of hygiene, safety and quality…
New Year, New Layout and a New Wall of Beer!
January is normally a slow, low energy, darkness-before-the-dawn time of year. Christmas jovialities have come and gone. It’s cold, damp and depressing. The days are short and the bank balance is not to be looked at. And this year – on top of all that – we have Lock Down…
Moving Up a Tier, Thank Heavens for Good Beer!!
By now all Wishfullers will almost certainly have heard that the Three Rivers District Council area has moved to Tier 3 bringing the highest levels of restriction in England…
Wishful Gift Boxes – at Last a Hassle Free Christmas!!
Struggling for Christmas gift ideas? What do you get for that person who has everything? Looking for a unique and stylish Christmas present…
I am Gruit
Before hops were commonplace in beer, gruit ale enjoyed a long period of ubiquity. Gruit is a mixture of herbs and spices, used in place of hops to brew a type of beer that originated in the Middle Ages in the Low Countries and western Germany…
The best food pairings for beer
As pairing beer with your dinner becomes increasingly popular, Susan Low looks at the reasons why it might even be the preferred choice over wine/food pairings. New to beer pairing? She also offers a rough guide to get you started…
Pop In to the Pop-Up Diner!!
As we enter Tier 2 Restrictions, we are delighted to announce the Wishful Drinking Pop-Up Restaurant…
Tiers and the Countdown to Christmas
After a most challenging and sometimes quite difficult year we now at least have a clearer idea of how we might be able to enjoy Christmas with family and friends, from three households for up to five days…
Love at First Taste?
I can vividly remember my first pint of cask. It was 14 years ago, probably sometime early in the month of October. I was sat in the Kean’s Head pub in Nottingham with my friend Harvey for our weekly drinking session that was fast becoming a tradition…
Pedestrianisation ePetition Has Been Presented!!
On Tuesday 17th November the Pedestrianisation ePetition – that so many of you supported – was formally presented to Three Rivers District Council during a Zoom call with the Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development Committee…
News in Brief
Mighty collaboration: Verdant and Deya have teamed up to create Degrees DIPA, hitting the glass at 8% ABV. It has, say the brewers, “an excessive degree of juiciness! Amarillo and Loral hops in the whirlpool set proceedings off in style, swiftly followed by a double-dry-hop of Citra and Simcoe…”
The Quest for the Best in a Lockdown… a Silver Lining to the Cloud?
Strictly speaking of course, a lockdown should not really affect our raison d’etre at Wishful which is, quite simply, to seek out the best beers from the best brewers and to bring them to the attention of Wishfullers who may then love or hate our choice of brews… one man’s meat and all that…
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