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Total Ales started life in January 2012 as a simple beer blog and for the most part it still is. We write stories about things happening in beer that excite and interest us and photograph the beauty in the beer industry we find along the way. We strive to be an optimistic voice in beer, focusing on subjects that interest us while hoping they will inspire you to feel the same way.
Blog - TOTAL ALES
4y ago
I enjoyed Sam McMeekin’s presentation on the importance of independence at this weeks Brewer’s Congress, organised by trade publication The Brewers Journal, and held at the Institute of Civil Engineers. Along with a few others—including Paul Jones at Cloudwater—The Gipsy Hill Brewing Co. founder has for a long time been vocal about the value of independence to the small scale brewing industry. It is a strong line, and one I largely agree with.
His presentation included the damning statistic that since 2015 the production volume of what you would ostensibly define as “craft beer” within London ..read more
Blog - TOTAL ALES
4y ago
A Note from the Author
Few breweries have impressed me with their progress over the past three years so much as Fierce Beer. I remember well the first time I tasted their beers; co-founder Dave Grant had kindly sent me some samples of some of their first ever commercial brews. Although it may surprise you to hear it, at the time, those beers didn’t leave a lasting impression, especially compared to how fond of their beers I am now.
They were by no means bad, but the unusual nature of them—habanero spiced pale ales and a very early iteration of Cranachan Killer, a raspberry infused pale—was ha ..read more