THE CASKAWAY

My Rambles and Other Writing

For me, writing about food and drink is primarily a creative outlet. Since I stopped working full-time in professional kitchens, it started off as making some nice things to eat, then maybe pairing them with a glass of beer or wine, writing about them, and posting. Now I’m extremely lucky that it has grown into something more than a hobby, and I’m proud that, in an extremely competitive world, I have found some commercial outlets for my work.

This means an incredible amount of research and a lot of pitching ideas to fellow creatives. Many ideas don’t even get off the drawing board. A little of this gets picked up, but most of the time it ends up on my blogs. Yes, a glutton for punishment, I have a foodie site as well. But apparently the best way to improve is to read lots of your peers’ work and to write and write and write. Here are the results: pub visits, foodie days out and anything else I’ve written.

My Pub Rambles

My other articles

Welcome to The Caskaway

Personal, subjective and in no way definitive but I hope The Caskaway reveals a little of the passion I have for wine and beer. I’m no expert but I love to learn and wanted to share my knowledge and discoveries with all my drink writing in one convenient place. Why am I doing this when there is so much information out there already? Well, if one person reads and tries something new, I will call that a win.

There are honest tasting notes that you might hopefully find helpful, entertaining and maybe even instructive. Some posts try to help with the confusing and often obscure specialist terminology and language in both the beer and wine worlds and yes, there is a lot! Finally, there are links to all of my favourite recipes made using wine and beer (see below), and finally some expanded reviews of great pubs and other bits and pieces.

Formerly a full-time chef and publican, I’ve worked for two breweries, an award-winning Jersey based wine merchants and now try to write and broadcast about food and drink for local and national media including What’s Brewing and BBC Local Radio.