Adelle Stripe's essay ('Drinking for England') on the notorious booze culture of her hometown of Tadcaster has appeared in Verdant Brewing's My Life in Beer anthology.
"MY LIFE IN BEER is a book celebrating the first ten years in the life of Verdant Brewing, an independent brewery with an astonishing record for producing and reinventing beer. A collaboration with innovative publisher White Rabbit Books, this anthology celebrates beer in all its guises.
There are essays here by some of the finest writers of the twenty-first century: poets, novelists, emerging talents, Booker Prize-winners, artists, publishers, musicians, writers on music, ex-drinkers and sometime-drinkers . . . and a solitary brewer. These essays go back into the Proustian memories, returning to the waymarkers, formative moments, celebrations, travels, turning-points and chance meetings that make up a life.
The result is a creative, thoughtful and often euphoric gathering, all raising a glass to beer as it has mattered to them."
Contributors include: Jennifer Lucy Allan, Lee Brackstone, Darren Biabowe Barnes, Will Burns, Richard Foster, Dan Franklin, Joel Gion, Salena Godden, Audrey Golden, Will Harris, Stu Hennigan, David Keenan, Ali Millar, Richard Milward, DBC Pierre, Adam Robertson, Fernando Sdrigotti, George Shaw, Matthew Shaw, Martha Sprackland, Harry Sword and Luke Turner.