The glitz and the glamour of the beer world is on display, as Will Beckett heads to the Playboy Club for, er, research...

His original plan foiled by looters, Will Beckett calls in his very own A-Team to a secret underground lair (the decidedly un-secret Hawksmoor) and kicks off his very own beer-based Battle of Britain

Will Beckett dons his beret, clicks the safety catch off his tinnies, and barges into two very different American outlets to put six US beers to the test

Is beer or wine the better food partner? We put two of the country’s finest food matchers into the ring to find out. Susanna Forbes donned her referee’s outfit for this surprisingly close contest

Originally created in the days of the British Empire to keep the Raj’s ex-pats in beer, IPA is currently the world’s hottest beer style. Nigel Huddleston and a team of tasters brush the froth off their handlebar moustaches to discover what all the fuss is about

With the mercury dropping and recession biting, our beer panel seek out their fingerless gloves and huddle round a roaring log fire with a line-up of comforting dark beers for company. Stout and proud, says Nigel Huddleston…

It’s not just wines that can benefit from a few years in the cellar. Nigel Huddleston takes a look at why aged beers could bring complexity and interest, not to mention profit, to your list

In his first column on the possibilities of matching beer with food Will Beckett addresses the issue of sticking

Beer guru Nigel Tarn travels the length and breadth of Britain in search of the country’s most innovative, most traditional and most plain bonkers breweries.