Design & Technology

Squirrels, stoats and cirrhosis

BREWDOG

Not content with the high percentage draws of special brew, James Watt and Martin Dickie founded BrewDog back in 2007. Since, the pair have gone on to rustle up some of the most progressive beers we’ve had the pleasure of sampling, and this month Scotland’s largest independent brewery launches it’s most daring tipple yet. (more…)

Technology

Take a thin view of things

Samsung Proper

We recently had the opportunity to test out the new impossibly slender Samsung LED 9000 television, and despite the impressive specs — details of which below — what we couldn’t quite get over was the sheer beauty of the design. (more…)

Design & Technology

Screen dream

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As Apple announces an impromptu news conference to discuss those embarrassing iPhone 4 signal-loss problems, we’ve been busy getting to grips with Samsung’s new alternative, the Galaxy S – and we’re seriously impressed. (more…)

Design & Technology

The iPad alternative

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We were all excited about the launch of the iPad in the Esquire office, don’t get us wrong. Not queuing overnight to buy it excited, but still. Fast forward two months and the increasingly frequent sight of iPad owners smugly pulling their new tablet out on the train is starting to grate. Which is why we are recommending the anti-iPad instead. (more…)

Art, Design & Technology, Style

Jean Nouvel paints the town red

Jean Nouvel

Like some red-coated relic of the industrial revolution, Jean Nouvel’s recently completed Serpentine Pavilion opens its…walls, for the first time this weekend. (more…)

Design & Technology, Entertainment

For Those About To Rock. . .

It’s Friday which means that if you’re in an office you’ll need a really great addictive website to waste a couple of hours on this afternoon (not that we at Esquire would ever do this – senior management take note). (more…)

Motoring, Style

Sam Hancock, Speedmaster

Sam Hancock

Sam Hancock, Esquire’s favourite motor racing legend in the making, has been telling us about what’s it like to race at the Le Mans 24 hour endurance race. Sam was looking good to finish fourth – a career making position – in last week’s race, when sadly the engine of his Aston Martin let go. Coming to a stop at the remote Arnage corner in the woods he was given a standing ovation by an entire stand for the incredible race he’d just driven. (more…)

Design & Technology

The best of the crests

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If you lot are anything like us, it’s unlikely you’ll be feeling particularly patriotic right now. Dismal performances from England against Algeria and the USA have left even the staunchest of Anglophiles cold. (more…)