I was proud to take part in this morning’s live tweeting with fellow #beer lovers to suggesting great British #beer to match with all the dishes cooked on the live #Saturdaykitchen show on BBC1 this morning. Hundreds of tweets on screen for the full hour. Today I suggested: Purity Pure Gold to go with the Pork Tenderloin dish and Thornbridge Hopton to go with some of the curried dishes. Cheers to all the fellow beer lovers who were tweeting me and each other back and forth all morning. BRILLIANT! It was a joy to see and I wonder what the producers of the show will think when they examine the hashtag timelines after the show. Will they act? Or will they ignore?

The idea was the brainchild of the lovely brewer and blogger @Hardknottdave: read his rationale here (Ofcom will be getting a letter from me very soon!!) I’ve not had the pleasure of meeting Dave personally yet, but I very much like the cut of his jib when it comes to his passion for beer!

Every week for as long as I’ve known the show, they send a wine expert to a supermarket to choose a wine to accompany each dish. High time they ditched wines from thousands of miles away and support the British beer industry. With hundreds upon hundreds of amazing British beers of varying strengths and a wealth of terrific flavours out there to choose from, there’s so much more scope to have a perfect match with your food. But oh no the BBC powers that be are wilfully ignoring beer. Cos it seems beer still has this ridiculous bad rep, amongst people who don’t know it. Those who love beer, know it’s a stunning drink that can be sophisticated and elegant. Well it IS in my book.

So we need to browbeat these British TV producers and researchers into submission with social media. They want us to text and tweet the show? You GOT IT. If they don’t listen this week, then I suggest we do it WEEK AFTER WEEK AFTER WEEK until someone DOES listen. Keep up the pressure and Back British Beer!

Anyway I’m off out to have a steak lunch and get me lips around some of this