Comfort food is having a moment, if empty baking aisles around the country are any indication. But what about comfort drinking? Claire Bullen asks if quarantine has inspired consumers to go for more familiar styles of beer or has boredom induced a fever for new and exciting brews?
This year’s Cask Marque report made grim reading for brewers and servers of traditional cask beer.The annual study of pub trends pulled no punches, sh