Dot Brew News Today

Do you drink differently in the depths of winter? Do your choices of beer — or wine, or spirits, or whatever tipple you’re having — shift with the seasons, or are you a loyal traditionalist who sticks to what they know and love?

John Wilson: Stock up on wines and beer that are not too heavy in alcohol or drying tannins

"My wine suggestions this week follow no particular theme other than that they are all imported by James Nicholson, taste delicious, and cover some regions that I don’t get to mention all that often."

Food festivals, album-sized quesadillas, insect burgers, nutty beer and Galway goats’ cheese pyramids are all on this month’s menu.