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Matthew Curtis

7 months

My new book, MANCHESTER'S BEST BEER PUBS AND BARS is out now! Featuring almost 200 venues across Greater Manchester, plus a brief history of brewing in the region, and a foreword from @AndyBurnhamGM . You can buy a copy here:

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Some personal news. I have just signed a book deal with @CAMRABooks and will soon begin working on "Modern British Beer" which is scheduled for release in Autumn 2021.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

I am reminded of this comic today. “You’re not Punk, you’re a nice craft beer from Waitrose.”

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

6 years

When you sell 22% of your company for £213 million to the PE firm that has also invested in Pabst, but still find time to ride the moral high horse.

James Watt

@BrewDogJames

6 years

We will no longer be selling Beavertown beers or attending Beaver Ex. I wrote this piece in 2015 but it seems very relevant today too

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

I'm really pleased to announce my first book: An Opinionated Guide to London Pubs, on @HoxtonMiniPress , is now available to pre order. Launching April 8th!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

There’s a lot of chat about “bad” pubs on the timeline, not enough about good ones. So let’s start a thread: tell me about a favourite pub of yours. I’ll start — The City Arms, Manchester @cityarmsmcr

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Glory be.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

5 years

What a load of shit.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Celebrating 37 loops of the sun today and hoping for a world with more empathy, and greater willingness to fight societal injustice. Fuck racism, fuck fascism, fuck transphobia always, and drink good beer.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

I did a big cry. Thank you @SIBA01

BeerNouveau

@BeerNouveau

2 years

A seriously happy chap here! @totalcurtis winning with @pelliclemag !!! And seriously well deserved!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

Took a nice photo of @ThePeveril last night.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

10 months

Now it’s official I can finally tell you all about why I’ve been a little stressed of late. I don’t recommend trying to buy a house while you’re in the middle of writing a book, but we did it, I’m a Stockport boy now!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

"Pints" isn't just about the beer in the glass. It's about meeting with friends, the hugs, the joyous conversations, the arguments, the solo pint with a book. I don't miss beer, I have lots of that. But I miss my favourite ways in which I experience it.

Staffordshire Brewing & Packaging🍺est. 2002🍺

@staffsbrewery

4 years

@totalcurtis You mean pints in a pub. There are loads of pints loose in everyone’s neighbourhood. You just have to coax one out of its hiding place. Then catch it, which is straightforward. And there you go. A pint. 😀

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Mega Thread! A lot of both breweries and beer lovers are contacting me at the moment, asking for advice where to shop or for me to share their online shop. I can't help you all, so reply to this pinned thread with a link to your online store as a resource for folks to use!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

6 years

Sick burn James. Especially from you, a multi-millionaire owner of a multi-national company, to me, a freelancer able to pay myself £19k after expenses this financial year. Also, I am on your payroll for the Beer Geek Awards. You still owe me £200 for an invoice dated July 16.

James Watt

@BrewDogJames

6 years

@totalcurtis @cwbydrnkscrft @Longm8 @BrewDog Don't worry Matt. I would be upset about our advert too if I loved big beer as much as you do and was on their payroll :)

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

10 months

40 today pals! I’ve always kind of envisioned how I hoped my life would pan out but I’ve never been able to see past this age, hence the existential dread. So I think my next decade will be about learning to let go, and just seeing what happens. (Portrait by @marknewtonphoto )

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

9 months

I am very pleased to officially announce my new book: MANCHESTER’S BEST BEER PUBS AND BARS, which will be published on October 18th 2023 by @CAMRA_Official and will include a foreword by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Couldn’t resist taking a route past the Marcus Rashford mural in Withington on this mornings run. Powerful, emotional, with so many gathered to leave messages of support. Fuck racism. ✊

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

James, we've had our differences, but this time I'm 100% in agreement with you. It's great to see the UK's largest independent brewery is behind the continued support of the UK's smallest breweries. 💪🏼

James Watt

@BrewDogJames

4 years

Small Brewers Duty Relief was essential to @Brewdog in our early years of growth. Now, more than ever, small breweries should have the support they need to grow their business. The reduction of SBDR is a hammer blow to thousands of small breweries when they need it least.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

She’s gonna kill me for positing this photo but @MelissaCole has been and is a wonderful friend and mentor and I’m gonna miss her when I move north. Yes we had a cheeky Guinness in the French House and it was worth it.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

My first book, An Opinionated Guide to London Pubs, is out today! You can order yourself a copy here direct from its publisher @HoxtonMiniPress and get ready for beer gardens reopening on Monday.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Here we, here we, here we fucking go.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

If you were making 4999.9hL of beer per year, employed 5 or 6 staff, were comfortable and not interested in growth, just earning a living, imagine getting the news that someone making 50x as much beer wants you to pay more tax because it will "stimulate growth."

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

I've been interviewing brewer owners this morning and, fuck, it's bleak out there. My kingdom for a shred of optimism. Support your local breweries, pubs and bottle shops. They really need you right now.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

It is perfectly reasonable to ask customers to keep beer cold for freshness. It is a food product, it deserves to be enjoyed at its best. It is completely irresponsible to ask customers to keep beer cold to stop it from exploding, in a way that may cause undue harm.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

The chutzpah of breweries putting out cans of beer containing dangerous amounts of fermentable sugar and then blaming it on customers for not storing it cold. Name one other food or drink product where the expectation is to keep it cold or it’ll explode. Fucking hell.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

I see yer Da’s been on Illustrator again.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

I am glued to the season finale of “America” right now.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Disappointing to see @SIBA01 award Tesco for its race to the bottom craft beer retail option, goes against the core message of the organisation IMO. Glad I was here to get a deep boooooo in though. Let’s support our independent retailers folks ✊

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Wrote a book!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Fuck I wish I was sat in a pub rn talking shit.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

I want a pint. But I also don't want the industry to do the legislative hokey cokey until Easter. So why not instead of spending £16.5Bn on guns and tanks pay restaurants/pubs to stay shut, pay staff. Get vaccine(s) rolled out, then come back properly in the spring.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

5 years

I'm blogging again. Here's a little piece on why I won't be drinking for most of January, and why I feel we should all be a little more mindful towards our consumption in 2019.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

There is not a U.K. hospitality staffing crisis. There is a U.K. hospitality wage crisis. The pandemic has adjusted our perspective, why would you work for min wage on a zero hours contract at unsociable hours when you can, say, learn to code and earn more that way.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

5 years

So respect beer, support you local taproom and bottleshop, give honest, critical feedback about service and product, be mindful of your purchases. Thank you for making it this far.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

It’s official, we’ll be saying goodbye to London at the beginning of October. It’s been my home for 15 years. Time for a fresh start in the North.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

For @pelliclemag , I've written 5500 words attempting to define what "IPA" means (or doesn't) in terms of modern beer, in a first of a new series of guides we're calling Essentials. Give it a read here:

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Reasons to be cheerful.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

5 years

Dear @spectator , when your drinks columnist writes “from my limited experience” in his lede it should inform you that he is not fit to serve in his position. And evidently has a palate of ash and salt.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

That first pint of birthday cask bitter.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

That first pint of brewery fresh Jaipur.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Solidarity with all of the small British breweries who had the rug pulled from under them by the government today. Shame on all those mid/large sized breweries that actively pursued to reduce duty relief for small brewers for their own gain.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Very excited to reveal I’m at @burningskybeer today to brew a beer to celebrate the upcoming launch of my book Modern British Beer!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

Got a good new t shirt

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

5 years

Hey folks, just wanted to announce that my good friend @_hammy and I are launching a magazine called Pellicle on May 1st. Go give us a follow @pelliclemag and we look forward to sharing our first stories with you soon. 🤗

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

I became an uncle this morning. Incredibly proud of my sis and her partner and their newborn daughter 🥰

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

If you’re able to get angry about how full of beer a pint glass is, then you’re able to get angry about allegations of poor workplace conditions and abuse in the beer and hospitality industries. I know which of these I’ll be putting my time and energy into.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

7 months

Chuffed, like.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

5 years

You know what would *really, really, really* help the 900,000 people working in the beer and pub industry Philip? Not leaving the European Union.

Philip Hammond

@PhilipHammondUK

5 years

I'm @Fullers Brewery - one of the UK's oldest family brewers, talking about how freezes to beer duty help hard working families and the 900,000 people working in the beer and pub industry.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

In a beer culture I consider to be thoughtful and progressive, acts of blatant sexism and toxic masculinity like this are reductive, and make it less accessible. Shame on you for the petty jokes (in a job ad no less) @tinyrebelbrewco . They do more harm than you know.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

I love Oktoberfest beers and Germany's autumnal beer traditions in general, but hot damn wouldn't it be great to see more British breweries embrace our own beer culture in the same way and make some delicious green hopped beers as we celebrate the rewards of this years harvest.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

1 year

This is absolutely devastating news. Black Sheep is an institution, and Paul Theakston a trailblazer within British beer. I sincerely hope a buyer who doesn't take this brewery's heritage for granted can be found.

The Yorkshire Post

@yorkshirepost

1 year

BREAKING: Yorkshire brewery Black Sheep has entered administration

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

How it started: How it’s going:

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Hello Manchester!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

How dare you. How dare you claim to support a “greater goal to maintain diversity and opportunity” when the legislation you support will directly damage more than three times as many breweries than call themselves members of the SBDRC cartel. This will not stand.

Harvey's Brewery

@Harveys1790

4 years

Please find Harvey's statement in response to proposed changes in SBR (Small Brewer's Relief) below. Miles Jenner and Hamish Elder, Harvey's Managing Directors, are responding to enquiries and can be contacted by email via info @harveys .org.uk.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

These are 30 litre kegs. 🤪

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

No VAT cut to beer = no support for wet led pubs = no support for bottle shops, or distributors, or those thousands of breweries you love. We need to lobby to change this, and breweries need to support @SIBA01 to do that.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

This is the most fun you can have in London for less than a fiver.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Campaign for hospitality venues to put their opening hours in their Twitter bios.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

6 years

Also, go fuck yourself.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

It’s gonna be amazing when pubs open but it’s not worth doing until we can do it safely and properly. The government should be paying hospitality to stay closed until that day.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Because the timeline is heavy this morning I wanted to share some posi-news too. In the Netherlands, Amsterdam's @TwoChefsBrewing have collaborated with @vengaboys on a beer that will donate to several charties supporting trans folk. How fucking cool is that?

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Shot of Pfizer with a Lagonda chaser in the @TheMarbleArch . Ideal.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

Got to meet my niece, little Elsie, this afternoon 🥰

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Erm, I appear to have been nominated for five awards. What is this feeling of my chest tightening and the urge to vomit? Is it joy? It must be. Congrats to all the other nominees, this is quite a list.

British Guild of Beer Writers

@Britbeerwriters

4 years

Congratulations to the finalists in our annual awards. Winners will be announced at our Awards Dinner on 3rd December.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

So long, London.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

Cask mild by a log fire at The Ale Store, Buxton. Ideal.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

The genuine horror of a Londoner when I, a good Lincolnshire lad, clamber slowly over the bar top, before slowly screwing the sparklers I carry around in my pocket to the end of each and every swan neck.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

11 months

Is it possible to fall in love with a pub at first sight? I’ve wanted to visit The Baum in Rochdale for years and I’m officially having a break for my birthday now, so took myself here as a little treat. Pictish Azzaca, £3.20.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

As hospitality in the U.K. reopens indoors today i’d like to ask my followers to show compassion to their servers, now and always. And please tip. Tip like your life fucking depends on it.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Things are fucking shit and I am angry but I am going to pause my rage for a moment to wish happy birthday to @thornbridge Jaipur, which changed the game when it was released 15 years ago today. I’ll drink to that. In fact, I am.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

You know what? I fucking love IPAs. Malty, biscuity, citrusy, bitter as hell, clear as crystal IPAs. Gimme gimme gimme.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

And in this moment I am happy.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

6 years

Today I am finishing an article about how the restaurant industry doesn't treat beer with the same respect it does wine. What I have learned is there are a lot of very good restaurants with a few very good beers on their drinks lis these days, however...

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

1 year

Cask rauchbier? It’s the future. I’ve tasted it.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

9 months

That Greggs take is so bad I had to block the class-baiting arsewipe that wrote it. Greggs is class. The fresh breakfast roll and a coffee for £2.60 (cheaper than a coffee alone at Pret) is a staple. The steak bake is haute cuisine. I will block anyone who disagrees.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

I’ve had five pints!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

5 years

It's my birthday weekend and I've been dead miserable about it. Cancelled all my plans, work stress compounding everything. But Dianne just booked us a trip to Lewes and is taking me away from everything to drink Best. Isn't she just the greatest.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Looking in a bottle shop yesterday, seeing loads of cans which are basically: *** small logo LARGE CONCENTRIC PATTERN DESIGN IN VIVID PASTEL SHADES small beer name *** How do you make a brand stand out in a market of 1000’s when you look the same as everyone else?

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

7 months

This is a block of invert sugar no. 2. We’re using it today at @RunawayBrewery to make a modern clone of a 1974 Boddington’s recipe I’ve christened MANCHESTER’S BEST. Try it first at my book launch, @CafeBeermoth , 5pm, 18/10/23, all welcome.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

I'm not saying living in the North is way better than living in London but I had Bundobust twice last week.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

10 months

Time for a little treat

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

Mild Boys! (Mild Boys)

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

5 years

What the hell!? This is incredibly dangerous. Why post this online, especially considering the employee near dangerously hot liquid clearly not wearing adequate PPE. Breweries need to take responsibility for safety, and this is very disappointing behaviour.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Funny who you bump into at these things.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Thank you to whoever this year told me the best way to reheat pizza was in a frying pan. You've changed my life.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

Happy Friday everyone!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

A London-based brewery owned by the largest beer company in the world is advertising free pints in Manchester next Monday. Just remember that the brewing and hospitality sector got almost zero support over the past 12 months and they need your support once they can open again.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Three cheers for this anti-racist, anti-homophobia, ENGLAND team!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

A happy place.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

11 months

It’s the last day of my 30s

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Hello old girl

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

My sense of taste is back and honestly this bowl of Heinz cream of tomato is the best thing ever right now.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

6 years

Today I'm celebrating being a full time freelance beer writer for two years and four since I had my first paid feature published, which is a cool thing. Thanks to all the folks who help me do this for a living.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

4 years

Hey everyone 👋 I have come down with a bad fever and cough and am now in self isolation for the next couple of weeks. Haven’t called 111 yet becuase I’m otherwise very fit and healthy and don’t want to clog the aready busy line. Feel v rough but otherwise, I’m fine!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

2 years

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Incredibly disappointing behaviour from a brewery that at one point were defining the beer landscape in the U.K.

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

6 months

Did I just pop in to Waterstone’s Deansgate to see if they had my book and come across this v large stack? Yes, yes I did. MBBP&B now available in all Greater Manchester branches!

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Another positive thing. @DurationBeer have literally filled their coolship with logs today. I love to see shit like this. Log beers: big in 2021

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Matthew Curtis

@totalcurtis

3 years

Watching @foundersbrewing double down on their rhetoric by actively blocking members of the industry including publishers and diversity spokespeople should tell you everything you need to know about the remorse it feels for the accusations it’s received.

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