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Writes about food, beer, travel. Author of @LondonBeerCity , monthly missive on pubs & beer. Fortnum and Mason Drink Writer of the Year 2021 & 2023

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 months

Forced to flee her Vienna home when the Nazis arrived, Dr Dora Kulka helped change British beer forever - and had a big (albeit indirect) impact on America’s craft-beer revolution, too. She might be the most important brewer you’ve never heard of:

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The Story of Dora Kulka, and How One Woman Changed British Beer Forever — Pellicle

In 1942, Dr. Dora Kulka had a lot on her mind. She was struggling to establish herself in Britain having been forced to flee Nazi-controlled Vienna because she was Jewish. She was caring for her...

www.pelliclemag.com

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

Lion Tavern, Liverpool 👌🏽

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

7 years

I’ve written for @guardian about craft beer’s new progressive mood. Please read it here:

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Draught includers: how craft beer found its mission

Stung by a reputation as gentrification’s outriders, craft breweries are trying to bring in more women, working-class people and people with disabilities to both drink beers – and make them

www.theguardian.com

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

5 years

My eldest son, Fraser, is autistic. One of the ways his autism manifests itself is his intense passions - like his love for ancient Rome. We went there and looked at ruins/walked about/ate lots of pizza, and then I wrote this:

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Will Hawkes

3 years

At the best pub in SE London, which is to say London.

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Will Hawkes

6 years

Don't sleep on this, beer fans! It looks like modern British beer might finally be getting to the point:

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Will Hawkes

7 years

I'm in the best room in London #dawnosaurs

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Will Hawkes

1 year

Really very pleased, thanks @totalcurtis & all at @pelliclemag . Also, I made a new friend

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Will Hawkes

5 years

I’m at the party to celebrate 10 years of @kernelbrewery . Very festive atmosphere, as this picture illustrates

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Will Hawkes

7 months

How Britain got bored of Brewdog, by me for @VinePair

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How the Brits Got Bored of Brewdog

Even as BrewDog continues to expand, the company remains a lightning rod for criticism, most recently in regard to a BBC documentary.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

6 years

There are nearly 1400 breweries in France now, according to this map from Project Amertume (on Facebook).

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Will Hawkes

3 years

For lent, I’m only drinking beers with monks on the label 😌🙏🏼

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

3 years

1971 beer selection at the Dorchester Hotel, London. Lowenbrau's a bit pricey, I'll have a Carling's Canadian Lager 🇨🇦

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

3 years

Big news! The ring pulls on U.K. cans of Pilsner Urquell now feature the brewery gates, as they do in Czechia 🇨🇿 😮

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

1 year

What are these? What are they for? In parts of modern London, nobody knows. They’re too busy splitting the G or necking the oil. More here:

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

4 years

Just spoken to the man behind Pivo, the new Czech pub that's opening near Old Street later this year (Covid allowing). From cellar to side-pull taps, it sounds like it will be a huge step forward for Czech beer in London. (More info in @imbibeuk closer to the opening date ...)

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Will Hawkes

3 years

This tweet is for the hardcore glass fans. Just enjoy it

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Will Hawkes

5 years

Sunday lunch.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

I interviewed the estimable @NHS_Martin for the Telegraph; he's been to every pub in the 2022 GBG and lots more besides. Very nice man, fascinating to chat to, should be a national hero. You can read my article here (if you have a subscription):

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'I've been to 4,500 pubs in Britain – this one is the best'

Martin Taylor has completed Britain’s longest pub crawl: all of the establishments in the Good Beer Guide

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Will Hawkes

2 years

What were the best beers of 2022? I've 'done the math' and this is what came out. (Some real obscurities on here, one for the heads imo 😎)

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

3 years

Dear @totalcurtis we won!

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

On balance, I think this is my favourite pub in Liverpool. The pies are excellent.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

4 years

Did you know? IPA is called IPA because it was originally made with ice, peat and aardvarks. Quirky ingredients, right?! Well, olde-worlde brewers knew these were essential to transport the beer safely to Scunthorpe, which is the only place anyone liked it. #beerfacts

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Will Hawkes

2 years

In a pub in Greenwich, about four customers, one watching racing on his phone. Silence except for the tinny commentary. ‘Come on you cunt!’ says racing man, suddenly and loudly. Bloke in the corner looks up from his paper: ‘Unusual name for a horse.’

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

8 years

Meet the new boss: @FullersGeorgeY is the new head brewer at Fuller's. First woman in the job. An excellent brewer and a very nice person

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@Will_Hawkes

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1 year

Grace Land, which runs six pubs in East and North London, has acquired the former London Fields brewery from Carlsberg … they plan to relaunch it as Saint Monday, a brewery and taproom.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

5 years

Having reached a beer-writing creative impasse, I have decided to try a new approach: poetry. Here’s my first, ‘lager’: oh lager, noble liquid! crispy boi pride and joi you fill our hearts with more joi. my favourite is carling black laboi.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

5 years

Absolutely love a flight. Best way to get to know the company philosophy imo 👌🏽

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

In February, I went to the Black Country to find out more about that unique part of England and its stubborn allegiance to Mild. For @goodbeerhunting

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Will Hawkes

7 years

Look away, traditionalists. Fuller's is brewing a New England IPA (with help from Cloudwater)

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

6 years

I don't think anyone else has written about this, have they? Suits me, because I like to be first with the big news. Anyway, shove it on the pile: 'The Value of Fuller's':

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

6 years

I've set up a personal website, like it's 2003. (I'm joining myspace next month.) To celebrate, please enjoy a blog that has been five years in the making: "The Quiet American: Brüpond and the birth of modern London beer"

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Will Hawkes

3 years

Bundobust is just about the best thing to emerge from modern British beer, IMO. In January, I spent a chilly day with founders Mayur & Marko in Bradford to find out more about them and the city that made them, for @pelliclemag

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The Spice of Life — How Bundobust Emerged from Bradford’s Rich Cultural Heritage — Pellicle

After a long day on his feet, Marko Husak has found what he’s looking for. Spread out in front of us on a large table at the Sweet Centre, a restaurant in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is a Kashmiri...

www.pelliclemag.com

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

7 months

BREAKING: Asahi is closing the Meantime Brewery and moving all production to Fuller's.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

The Augustiner Keller is mad - there are thousands of people here. The woman pouring litre after litre of Edelstoff in the self-service section deserves her own statue

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Will Hawkes

4 years

A pub near me is offering £2 bowls of chilli to comply with the govt's 'substantial meal' requirement. Shrewd and, given the number of people who've mentioned it to me, good marketing too. Anyone seen other smart sustenance solutions out there? 🤔

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Will Hawkes

2 years

V pleased to have written the cover feature for the current edition of BEER, ‘Pubs Reborn’. When the idea occurred to me, i wasn’t sure if i could stand it up - but its striking how many long-closed pubs have been revived in recent years

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

A lot of research went into this: What I've learnt about Bavaria from sitting in biergartens, by me for @WaPoTravel

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

3 years

Putin barred at the Rising Sun, Lewisham. Western sanctions starting to bite

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

3 years

Huge controversy here in sunny south-east London. One of the local pubs, the Brockley Jack, has been here for centuries, in various forms. In the 19th century the pub sign was a whalebone, dug up when the nearby railway was built. More recently it’s been displayed indoors …

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

5 years

I’m a sucker for these hype breweries

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Will Hawkes

6 years

Nice to see a London brewery doing something a bit different, but I expect if sales are slow they’ll end up doing session IPAs like the rest

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

5 years

Just told my wife about the Burton Union fermentation method. She didn’t say as much, but I could tell from her glassy-eyed rapture that she was absolutely fascinated

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

7 years

What’s the next big thing in British Beer? Serving keg beer properly, I hope. #nomorefobbing Me for @imbibeuk :

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

11 months

Superb. Don’t think this will improve with age, though. The hop character is so prominent

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

9 months

EXCLUSIVE: Nitro Stout (including the really famous Irish one) is massive in British pubs at the moment. Why is that? 🤔 I wrote this for @VinePair

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How Guinness Led a Modern Nitro-Stout Takeover of Britain’s Pubs

Nitro stouts are trending at British pubs, and it all started with the ultra-popular nitro brew, Guinness.

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Will Hawkes

1 year

Incredible day. Well done cricket

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Will Hawkes

6 years

You’re not a real brewery unless you have your own black pudding imo

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Will Hawkes

3 years

Excellent night at the @Britbeerwriters do yesterday. Well deserved fourth triumph for @PeteBrownBeer , and lovely to see some new names amongst the winners. Really enjoyed chatting to old pals for the first time in two years … thanks to those who published my winning work 🙏🏼👍

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

6 years

Just walked past the new Goose Island brewpub in Shoreditch. The most interesting thing? That ESB handpump

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Will Hawkes

9 months

Coach and Horses, Covent Garden. Alive with human happiness at lunchtime on a Thursday. What a pub

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Will Hawkes

2 years

V pleased, to put it mildly, to be shortlisted for #fandmawards Drink Writer of the Year. Congratulations to all other nominees, especially @PeteBrownBeer , @jaegawise & @Adam_HWells - and to @pelliclemag , which has done deservedly very well this year 👌

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

8 years

I wrote this story for @guardian about a unique Danish brewery run by autistic adults. It's a great project

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The Danish beermakers brewing up work for autistic people

Just 16% of autistic adults are in full-time paid employment, despite the vast majority saying they want to work. This beer company aims to help

www.theguardian.com

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Will Hawkes

2 years

Bundobust to open in Birmingham this summer - at 38, Bennetts Hill, right in the heart of the city. Described in press release 'as a more intimate, pub-like feel' than other Bundos. Pre-opening collabs and events planned:

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Will Hawkes

2 years

Why Liverpool's pubs are so fascinating

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Will Hawkes

3 years

Golden evening on the edge of the Black Country.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

9 years

No better feeling than when you put a lot of work into something and it turns out great. Thanks to all who made @LondonBeerCity a success.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

7 years

I followed the @Fullers & Friends process from start to finish last year. Please read about it here:

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4 years

Bermondsey was the heart of London beer before lockdown. Will that still be the case come July 4? I spoke to @PartizanBrewing 's Andy Smith about the Beer Mile, archway rent, restaurants, and why the next few months are the most dangerous:

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

6 years

Bad morning? At least you’re not this poor fellow, dressed as a beer at 7am in order to get Chris Moyles’ attention

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Will Hawkes

4 years

Given the occasion ... here’s my grandpa’s military MBE, which he got for defusing unexploded bombs during and after WW2, until 1947.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

7 years

I am cockahoop to be on the @Fortnums 2018 awards drinks writer shortlist - largely thanks to this story about @PeopleLikeUsDk for @GuardianSustBiz #FandMAwards

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4 years

“We owe a lot of money. As soon as one person in the supply chain says, "Fuck, I need money!” then the whole pyramid will fall down.” How the Kings Arms in Bethnal Green is suffering during the lockdown.

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Pubs, Coronavirus and thousands of debt — Will Hawkes

What's it like to be running a pub when they're not allowed to open? How much money is going down the drain?

www.willhawkes.net

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

What happened to Hard Seltzer in the UK? Lots of hype, plenty of cash, skimpy sales. Here’s my story for @vinepair

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After Soaring Stateside, Hard Seltzer Falls Flat in the U.K.

Hard seltzer arrived in Britain in early 2019. Yet the drink that took America by storm has fizzled rather than flown across the Atlantic.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

5 years

Important pub news: The Royal Oak, Borough, now has a pub dog.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

8 years

The independent has produced the worst ever article about beer. Well done the independent

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

Fyne Jarl @SuttonArms .🫡

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Will Hawkes

1 year

Cleared out the shed this morning, found this, drank it with lunch. Absolutely superb 😮

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

5 years

Just went to vote. @ChrisHallBeer was there. ‘How do I vote for barleywine?’ he yelled. Everybody cheered

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

9 months

Burton Union system killed off by Carlsberg:

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CMBC to retire Union Sets

Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC) has announced it is retiring the four remaining Union Sets at Marston’s Brewery in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire because using them as fermentation vessels...

www.morningadvertiser.co.uk

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

3 years

Incredible tiling. Even by Trumans’ standards this is sensational

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

‘We do not allow stag or hen nights’

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

1 year

Arguably the best foam in the business 🍺

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

7 years

Made a friend on the train

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

7 years

Great to hear that @yeastieboys has found a new brewer for its UK beers: the quietly excellent @westberksbrew . A fresh batch of Pot Kettle Black should be first priority, IMO

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

One of the exciting and fun things i like to do when abroad is to see how much take-home beer costs. Augustiner Helles about 70p a half-litre bottle at this Munich getränkemarkt if you buy 20 …

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

A joy to visit @SuttonArms and chat to Jack and Mike yesterday. What a pub and what a story ... as much as I can fit (from Robert De Niro to the post-Covid Guinness surge) will be in next month's @LondonBeerCity . So why not sign up to read it?

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

I was going to have Boltmaker but someone told me this was fashionable

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Will Hawkes

6 years

This seems interesting.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

3 years

Beautiful pint of @AnspachHobday London Black @JoyceBrockley last night. Eat your heart out, Guinness

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

9 years

My last @IndyMagazine column in the last Indy. An era ends, a new one begins @BeavertownBeer

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Will Hawkes

6 years

What’s striking about @ParisBeerWeek Grand Finale is the crowd; lots of women, some families, it’s not just white people ... and most of the beer is good. Oh, and these glass cleaners should be standard at all festivals

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

3 years

Magazines like @thetonicmag & @pelliclemag are transforming drinks writing. Thanks & ❤️ to both

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

6 years

Please purchase the Daily Telegraph today for many, many words from me on beer tourism (author not pictured)

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

5 years

Hey guys, just wanted to share some of the secrets of my freelance success. Every time you have a cup of tea, make it a different type. Eg 9am pg tips, 10am earl grey, 11am that weird one at the back of the cupboard. Gives a real structure to the day 👌🏽👍 #lifehack #toptips

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Will Hawkes

4 years

34 degrees is such an inefficient use of the sun’s warmth. Some of these degrees should have been redistributed to less scorching days

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Will Hawkes

6 years

You know, speculation can really damage a brewery’s reputation

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Will Hawkes

6 years

Oof that’s a blast from the past

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

6 years

The magic of Christmas, Cloudwater and why the customer is not always right, but is always a customer.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

1 year

Went to the new beer museum in Brussels. Its light, appropriately frothy, will be interested to see what non-beer nerds make of it. View from the rooftop bar is 👌🏽

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

6 years

How I ended up running a beer week by mistake.

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

5 years

In your face, Bavaria. THIS is a beer garden 🍻

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

4 years

Apropos of nothing, I've made a list of the world's most refreshing drinks: 1. half-litre of helles, under chestnut tree in a Bavarian bierkeller 2. massive bucket-sized glass of margarita, so cal beach bar 3. rum punch, barbados 4. g & t, my garden in about an hour's time

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Will Hawkes

4 years

Feel like they’ve missed something out here

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@Will_Hawkes

Will Hawkes

2 years

A 6.5 percent bitter? I’ll allow it

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Will Hawkes

2 years

THIS was when craft beer peaked

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Will Hawkes

6 years

The big players are opening brewpubs in London. Is this good news for the city’s beer culture? ‘Possibly not’ is my brave assessment. Be thrilled here:

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1 year

Glorious day in Copenhagen.

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3 years

Went to the pub at lunchtime today. They had Old Ale on, plus the racing.

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8 years

Beavertown is going to have company on its Tottenham Hale industrial estate - @pressuredrop is moving to a 6000sq ft unit there this summer!

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