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The best food pairings for beer

Dec 1, 2020

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!!

Dec 1, 2020

As we enter Tier 2 Restrictions, we are delighted to announce the Wishful Drinking Pop-Up Restaurant…

Tiers and the Countdown to Christmas

Nov 27, 2020

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?

Nov 25, 2020

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!!

Nov 18, 2020

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

Nov 18, 2020

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?

Nov 12, 2020

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…