Beer
Bière de Miel
3/5. Light, refreshing and floral. A beer full of the joys of spring.
- Originally published: 20 Nov 2011 in Beer
Cuvée Delphine
5/5. Rich, complex and promisingly dark, Cuvée Delphine’s stint in Bourbon casks is time well spent.
- Originally published: 20 Nov 2011 in Beer
Black Albert
5/5. Don’t let the heavy alcohol content put you off: Black Albert is nothing less than a sour revelation.
- Originally published: 20 Nov 2011 in Beer
Amburon
4/5. A new blonde beer from Tongeren with grassy flavours and a nice amount of bitterness.
- Originally published: 8 Oct 2011 in Beer
Urthel Samaranth Quadrupel 12
What sort of newlyweds would serve a quadrupel beer instead of fine wine at their wedding reception? Meet the Van Ostadens!
- Originally published: 15 May 2011 in Beer
Papegaei
4/5. Pours bright golden orange like the parrot name suggests but has no need to shout about itself.
- Originally published: 25 Apr 2011 in Beer
Straffe Hendrik Brugs Quadrupel 11°
3/5. Strong on alcohol but not obviously so. Licorice and rooty vegetable notes. Rather thinner than expected.
- Originally published: 10 Apr 2011 in Beer
Ramée Blonde
3/5. Sweet, sweet, sweet blond with soft, fruity aromas that goes particularly well with spicy cuisine.
- Originally published: 22 Jan 2011 in Beer
Hop Harvest 2010
4/5. A refreshing and well-rounded hop beer from De Ranke. Unexpectedly mild to the taste.
- Originally published: 22 Jan 2011 in Beer
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Ghostbusters
Unique, ridiculous and the first great movie I ever saw at a cinéma.
- Originally published: 27 Nov 2006 in Film
Club nasty: a night to remember (other nights)
Getting fleeced by crap nightclubs is a rite of passage as a youth, but it doesn’t have the same appeal at thirty.
- Originally published: 2 Feb 2009 in Editorial
The Templars
A millenium of pre-Templar history condensed into fifty taut pages. Sadly, Catholicism appointed itself the editor of the one that followed.
- Originally published: 28 Sep 2008 in Books
Beverly Hills Cop
The foul-mouthed and the feckless: remembering the good times with the buddy cop film of the 80s.
- Originally published: 17 Apr 2007 in Film
Singing in the subway
Key intersections of urban life, subway stations are also highly controlled and sometimes cultural spaces.
- Originally published: 12 Dec 2008 in Editorial
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.