Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say, and never was this truer than during a particularly strict lockdown with no idea of when you’d be able to buy a beer again. “How to make alcohol at home” topped the search engines, homebrew shops were run off their feet and pineapple farmers were rubbing their hands...

Most people barely notice what’s playing when the taps are open. More often than not, it’s a secondary thought – open Spotify, click a random list and get back to your beer. But the fact of the matter is that when the right music is played, a primal fermentation occurs and suddenly the good time...

Remember the listeriosis outbreak back in 2017? In case you’ve forgotten, this was the nationwide outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes that caused food poisoning from contaminated processed meats and lead to the untimely deaths of just over 200 people. At the time, some people joked on social...