More Vegan beer from Samuel Smith’s! I can heartily recommend their Nut Brown Ale to anyone who’s ever had a Newcastle Brown and wanted a bit more. This isn’t overwhelming and thoroughly enjoyable. I’m finding that this seems to be a good pattern in their beers – flavourful, drinkable and not overwhelming. You could easily pair this with food too… and I’m either craving lentils or they’d go well with it. The back of bottle suggests Thai, Malaysian and Chinese food, which would also go pretty well. There is a societal bias towards matching wine with food, and beer is often supremely overlooked. This is rather sad as the range and depths of flavours of bere is wide and varied, and pretty much always supremely more affordable. You can probably easily name several wines that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars; try naming a single beer that costs more than $100 for a six pack.

Edit: it’s not this beer that costs a lot, this one is quite reasonable. The expensive one is of you can’t easily get to a Belgian monastery.