To brew great tasting beer a brewer needs to achieve a complex balance: not just between bitterness and sweetness, but between the myriad of malt, hops and yeast-derived aromas, flavours and mouthfeel components of beer. Beers with balance are easy to drink – they have what brewers call “drinkability” or “moreishness” – a quality much sought after but rarely achieved. John Mill’s beers from Tower Brewery are fine examples of beers with this special characteristic – and it is to his credit that he strives and succeeds in brewing great tasting beers year in and year out. Long may he continue!