Good Food
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items: Top 11 types of beer
items: Cheerful beers for warm spring days
items: The 10 best gluten-free beers taste tested
items: The best vegan beer taste tested
items: 10 best lagers to buy
items: 3 of the best beer-making and home-brew kits
items: Boozy dark delight
items: Ginger spritz
items: Tropical beer cocktail
items: Beer mojito

Top 11 types of beer
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creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Guide
subject: How to
description: Are you desperate to know the difference between a mild and a bitter? Or how to sort your stouts from your porters? Beer sommelier Marverine Cole shares all you need to know
encoded: Are you desperate to know the difference between a mild and a bitter? Or how to sort your stouts from your porters? And what makes a helles distinct from a pilsner and a wheat beer? Have no fear! Working out what style of beer to drink and what you like can be tricky because there is a cornucopia of beer styles out there. Knowing the difference could be an uphill battle. But, hey, I got you! Once you know what’s what, you will get all the adoration when can reel off facts to your mates in the pub or at a festival. Understanding beer styles will also help take the headache out of making choices to drink when you feel a bit under pressure to choose something, anything to drink. When all the stress is removed it means you can have fun, trying sub styles – for example there’s myriad pale ales: IPAs, extra pale ales, double-dry hopped pale ales, session pales and so on, so you can really get into some amazing nitty gritty. Why on earth are there so many beer styles and sub-styles, I hear you cry? Well most brewers in the UK and around the world love to experiment with beer styles, mixing flavours, maturing them in wine and bourbon barrels, adding fruitier flavours and all the rest of it. It keeps things interesting. So look out for limited editions and special beers which might appear on the market but not be brewed all year round. Take my advice: always keep a note of the name of the beer as well as the brewery who produced it, so you can do your research about where you can find that delicious beer again! And when you are trying a new beer or beer style, ensure you read the whole description on the can or bottle to get an accurate sense of what the brewery has done with their own version of that beer style. Here’s the rundown on a few of the main beer styles out there. Lager Arguably the most popular beer style in the world, pretty much every brewery brews a lager all year round as a core beer in its range of staples. The history of this beer style dates back to Bavari…

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Cheerful beers for warm spring days
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creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Premium
description: As the summer months approach, enjoy these drinks with optimistic energy.
encoded: Can you smell it? Freshly cut grass, a whiff of warmth in the air from the sunshine (that’s often mixed with a few showers this month) and, above all, the promise of warmer days to come – a sense of triumph that we’ve emerged from the first quarter of the year unscathed. With these little victories in mind – and the fact that Britain’s national drink is one that’s often used for celebrations – there’s one beer that epitomises good vibes for me this year. Good Lager (4.5% ABV) is a top-class beer from Kelly and Bob, founders of Good Chemistry in Bristol. British craft lagers do not stray far from the norm – a straw-coloured pour with the usual malty breadiness, clean, crisp and moderately bitter – but Good Lager is not the norm. It’s a Vienna lager, meaning that – true to the beer style – this little fella comes with an added extra: a cheeky hint of honey-like sweetness with every mouthful. On examination of the stats on the groovy can, there’s a 30 per cent sweetness, balanced by 28 per cent bitterness. That delicate ratio, alongside the creaminess of the beer (and it being gluten-free), makes Good Lager one that would sit perfectly alongside your Easter lunch, especially if you’re serving roast pork or chicken. Being a vegan beer, it would also pair well with a roasted root veg or aubergine bake with a lemon, herb and apple sauce. And, when it comes to sustainability, the brewery has challenged itself and triumphed. Good Lager has achieved a 60 per cent reduction of the embodied energy of the beer by changing its production processes, using British malts, switching the strain of yeast used for fermenting, and using recyclable packaging. There’s so much to enjoy! If you have any special occasions to celebrate this month, I have the ultimate sharing beer that – warning! – packs a punch in terms of strength, but brings fruitiness in abundance. It’s not a fruit- flavoured beer, but the brewing process and inclusion of the sun-kissed Californian hop Citra brings a sweet…

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The 10 best gluten-free beers taste tested
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date: 2023-03-15T11:04:58.000Z
creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
subject: Beer
subject: Gluten free
subject: gluten free drinks
subject: gluten-free lager
subject: Marverine Cole
subject: review
description: Discover our beer expert Marverine Cole's top 10 picks of the best gluten-free beers available. Find your favourite flavour profile and raise a glass.
encoded: The world of gluten-free beer can be complex if you don’t know where to start. Some argue that gluten-free means absolutely no barley anywhere in the brewing process. Being a coeliac or someone with any other gluten-related condition means being exceptionally careful to steer well clear of wheat, barley, rye and or oats in your diet. The good news is, there's no shortage of excellent quality gluten-free beers out there to choose from. Plenty of our top picks below are award winners, with lots of styles to choose from. Whether you're looking for a fruity IPA, a beer to match with food, a simple lager or a classic old-fashioned ale, there is a gluten-free beer to suit you. Read on to discover our pick of the best gluten-free beers. For more like this, visit our reviews section where you'll find 400+ buyer's guides, including taste tests of non-alcoholic spirits and wines, plus our best beer gifts, top low-ABV beers and the best beer dispensers. The best gluten-free beer at a glance 2023 Best low-strength gluten-free IPA: Magic Rock Brewing Saucery, £19 (12 x 330ml) Best tropical IPA: Purity Brewing Session IPA, £42 (12 x 440ml) Best for pairing with food: Green’s Grand India Pale Ale, £2.50 (330ml) Best well-known gluten free lager: Peroni gluten free lager, £6.50 (4 x 330ml) Best citrusy pale ale: Wild Craft Brewing Wild Summer, £10 (3 x 500ml) Best easy-drinking pale ale: Wold Top Against the Grain, £2.28 (500ml) Best old-fashioned ale: Chiltern Brewery Three Hundreds Dark Old Ale, £2.90 (500ml) Best lager: Hambleton Brewery Gluten and Wheat Free Lager, £38 (16 x 500ml) Best high-strength pale ale: Brass Castle Brewery Sunshine IPA, £3.50 (500ml) The best gluten-free beer to buy 2023 Magic Rock Brewing – Saucery Available from Magic Rock (£2.35, 330ml), Amazon (£19, 12 x 330ml), Morrisons (£6, 4 x 330ml) Best low-strength gluten-free IPA: ABV: 3.9% From the Huddersfield-based brewery Magic Rock Brewing, this lower-strength gluten-free IPA has a tropical papaya fresh…

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The best vegan beer taste tested
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date: 2022-11-30T17:00:27.000Z
creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
description: Our resident beer expert Marverine Cole brings us some of her best vegan beer choices and explains what makes a beer vegan.
encoded: Vegan beers were once considered a fad. Now they are part of the fabric of the beer industry. Why? More of us are opting to be vegan. 400,000 people signed up for Veganuary in 2020. That’s 150,000 more than the year before. Furthermore, Sainsbury’s have estimated that 25% of the UK could have turned vegan or vegetarian by 2025. On the beer scene, the Society of Independent Brewers’ reported that 12.8% of their brewers are working to make their entire beer range vegan-friendly. This means making a conscious effort to stop using animal products, animal additives or animal processing agents in their production to filter their beer. None of my recommendations below use animal products to filter their beer, so in many cases they're hazy. In fact, the days of drinkers being shocked by a cloudy beer are behind us. For more like this, visit our reviews section and find over 400 expert reviews, including the best beer dispensers, best gluten-free beer and the best beer gifts. Best vegan beer to buy at a glance Best fruity beer: Stiegl’s grapefruit radler, £26.99 (12 x 500ml) Best hazy vegan beer: Purity Brewing Co. bunny hop hazy pale ale, £10 (4 x 330ml) Best Spanish IPA: Cervecera Artesana brewery Palax Session IPA, £50 (24 x 330ml) Best English IPA: Siren Lumina session IPA, £25.20 (12 x 330ml) Best English lager: Adnams Kobold English lager, £22.99 (12 x 500ml) Best triple-hopped ale: Einstok Arctic Icelandic pale ale, £2.20 (330ml) Best vegan beer to pair with food: Wooha Brewing Hop Piñata IPA, £30 (12 x 330ml) Best strong vegan beer: Duvel Belgian strong ale, £39.95 (12 x 330ml) Best vegan beer to buy Stiegl’s Grapefruit Radler Best fruity beer ABV: 2% This one is a livewire. It’s amber-coloured and cloudy, with a lip-smacking tang: a mix of the famous Austrian brewery, Stiegl’s flagship Goldbräu beer combined with soda made with natural grapefruit. The very low bitterness makes this a real thirst quencher. The German translation of ‘radler’ is ‘cyclist’, and this is …

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10 best lagers to buy
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date: 2022-11-01T12:33:00.000Z
creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
description: Beer expert Marverine Cole has taste-tested and chosen the 10 best lagers you have to try, from well-known classics to indie gems
encoded: There are many beer styles, with lager arguably being the most well-known and popular around the world. Global brands such as Peroni and Pilsner Urquell, or popular UK stalwarts such as Adnams may be the most familiar lagers to you, but there's a wide world of lager to discover, from small brands and independent brewers to unique styles and brew methods. This best lager list list is definitely for you if you truly enjoy drinking lager, and you’re looking for something a little different from the norm. There’s a fair bit of variety in this list. If you're a lager novice, or buying for a friend, we've also explained what lager is, what food to best pair with lager and how many units are in a standard can. For more like this, check out more expert beer reviews including best gluten-free beer, along with best beer subscriptions, best beer dispensers and beer making kits. Visit our reviews section to find over 400 more expert reviews. Best lagers to buy at a glance Best alcohol-free lager: Smashed Lager 0.0%, £5.50 (4 x 330ml) Best low-alcohol lager: Lucky Saint 0.5%, £6 (4 x 330ml) Best session lager: Signature Brew Studio lager, £13.50 (6 x 330ml) Best lager can art: Wild Card Brewery lager, £14 (6 x 330ml) Best Czech-style pilsner: Pilsner Urquell, £6.50, 6 x 330ml) Best unfiltered lager: Purity Brewing Co. Lawless lager, £21.60 (12 x 330ml) Best hybrid lager: Adnams India pale lager 4.6%, £23.99 (12 x 330ml) Best luxury lager: Curious Brew, £25 (12 x 300ml) Best continental lager: Peroni, £6.50 (4 x 330ml) Best African-inspired lager: Eko Brewery Eko Pils, £45.60 (12 x 440ml) What is lager? First and foremost you are looking for a lager to be true to the beer style. The yeast used is a bottom-fermenting one, which means it is happy fermenting at a cooler temperature (between 7-13C), and then stored cold for it to condition. Lager means ‘to store’ in German, and in the middle ages lager was stored in cold caves particularly in the hot summer months. The result is diff…

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3 of the best beer-making and home-brew kits
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date: 2021-08-27T13:55:30.000Z
creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
description: Have a go at brewing your own perfect beer, pale ale or lager: we've reviewed three beer-making kits to find the best
encoded: Love beer but want to cut down on all those trips to the pub, or feeling adventurous and want to try a new skill? Well, using a home-brew kit could be your solution. We’ve tested out three of the latest beer-making kits for home-brewing that will help you produce tasty beers at home and impress all your mates. There are different styles of beer-making kits to choose from. We tried two ‘traditional’ kits, meaning that they include all the parts and you just add water, malt extract and hops and test as you go along. You allow the beer to ferment for several days, dry-hopping when and where the comprehensive instructions in the pack tell you. The third kit from Pinter is something of a market disruptor, which claims to produce a drink of draught quality that you dispense from your own mini pump vessel. Once your beer is ready to drink, why not continue getting creative with it? Our collection of quirky beer cocktail recipes include a classic shandy recipe to show off your beer, or try a tropical-inspired beer mojito. You can also cook with beer: beer can chicken is a barbecue classic, while our beer mac 'n' cheese recipe is the ultimate comfort food. If you want something a little bit simpler, we've also reviewed the best beer dispensers (including the Pinter, one of our beer-making kits below) so that you can focus on pouring the perfect pint rather than making it. Still feeling thirsty? We’ve reviewed the best beer subscription boxes to get top-quality ales, lagers and more delivered direct to your door. We've also tested the best vegan beers, best gluten-free beers and best low-alcohol beers to find a bottle perfect for you, whatever your requirements may be. Best beer-making kits at a glance Best no-fuss beer-making kit: Pinter, £129.99 Best overall traditional beer-making kit: Beerworks Golden Rocket strong pale ale, Love Brewing, £47.90 Best premium beer-making kit: Festival Summer Glory, Brew UK, £83.99 How to choose the best beer-making kit Factors to consider …

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Boozy dark delight
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creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Drinks
subject: Recipes
subject: alcoholic cocktails
subject: Cocktails
subject: night cap
subject: Orange liqueur
subject: Stout
subject: Whisky
description: Enjoy this night-cap cocktail to round off your evening. Made with stout, whisky and orange liqueur, it's smooth and rich – ideal for cooler evenings

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Ginger spritz
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creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Drinks
subject: Recipes
subject: Beer
subject: Cocktails
subject: ginger beer
subject: golden ale
subject: Prosecco
description: Enjoy an ale, prosecco and ginger beer cocktail – it's a summery tipple that will have you and your pals fizzing with excitement at your next get-together

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Tropical beer cocktail
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creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Drinks
subject: Recipes
subject: alcoholic cocktails
subject: Beer
subject: Cocktail
subject: Vodka
subject: Watermelon
description: Evoke memories of relaxing at your favourite beach with this sensational beer-based tropical fruit cocktail, with vodka and watermelon syrup

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Beer mojito
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creator: Marverine Cole – Beer sommelier
subject: Drinks
subject: Recipes
subject: alcoholic cocktails
subject: Beer
subject: Cocktails
subject: Mojito
subject: Rum
description: Beer lovers rejoice: you can swap soda water for beer to give a classic mojito a delightful twist while still maintaining the white rum, mint and lime flavours

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