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Thisweek I was awarded the prize for best beer and food writing at the BritishGuild of Beer Writers annual dinner (http://www.beerwriters.co.uk/news.php?x=1&showarticle=1855).



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Iwrite about beer and food because I think that if anything is able to changethe way people think about beer then it’ll be because it’s linked to the dinnertable; it gives a point of reference to something familiar to try something whichthey are unfamiliar with. I also like to have fun with beer and food and mykitchen adventures were part of what got me the gong: shoving a can of Punk IPAup a chicken’s arse (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2011/08/beer-can-chicken-aka-punk-ass-chicken.html); cooking sausage, chips and beans (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2011/06/search-for-best-beer-for-sausage-chips.html) and drinking nine beerswith it to see which works best; making ketchup from beer (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2011/04/cooking-with-beer-chicken-maltnuggets.html)to go with chickencrusted in malt; ‘mashing in’ pale malt with double cream and milk to makecustard for ice cream and creme brulee (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2011/04/cooking-with-beer-pale-malt-creme.html); pale malt cookies (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2011/03/pale-malt-cookies.html); beer jelly and ice cream (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2011/03/beer-jelly-and-ice-cream.html); imperial stout chilli (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2010/12/cooking-with-beer-imperial-chilli.html); working on a beer list for Byron Hamburgers (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2011/05/byron-burger-craft-beer-list.html); and, of course, a fewFABPOWs (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/search/label/FAB%20POW), including one with a Big Mac (http://www.pencilandspoon.com/2010/11/fast-food-fabpow-big-mac-and-kfc.html).



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Theaward ceremony, as ever, was brilliant, but this year was the best I’ve been toin the last three years. The venue, the food, the beer, the timing, all workedso well. It was also good that I helped out with the beer and food pairings forthe meal this year. And while they weren’t all perfect, the point is that thebeers and the food were individually excellent and they bring out conversationabout whether they work or not and why and what would be better. That’s whatmakes pairing beer and food more fun.


Congratulationsto all the other winners: Evin O’Riordain from The Kernel for Brewer of the Year;Des de Moor for Travel Writing for his excellent book on London; Pete Brown forCorporate Communications; Martyn Cornell and Mark Charlwood for Online Media;Marverine Cole and Gavin Aitchinson for Regional writing; Ben McFarland andGlynn Davis for Trade; and Adrian Tierney-Jones and Will Hawkes for NationalMedia. Ben McFarland got the big one and was Beer Writer of the Year for thethird time. Ben’s writing is brilliant and always inspires me to write better.


Here’sto the best of beer writing!


AsSteve points out (http://beerjustice.blogspot.com/2011/12/london-beer-tipping-point.html), London did pretty well this year.


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