Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got production value, community, ...

We’ve just spent a few days in London stomping our way through the West, the East and the South, stopping to look at pubs and ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got rogues, underdogs and cheats.

You can’t have cops without robbers, or Batman without the Joker, and so the story of the revitalisation of British beer needs its bad guys too. Enter Watney’s. Watney’s (or Watney Mann, or Watney ...

When we found a yellowing copy of the local CAMRA magazine from 1996 for 50p of course we bought it, because it’s become a valuable record of the city’s beer scene 30 years ago. As we’ve often ...

Yesterday afternoon, the trumpet player from a surf-punk band grabbed the mic to thank the crowd for coming to an Oktoberfest event “which is happening in September, for some reason”. Britain seems ...

A Berni Inn, but don’t be putt off. Just make for the back bar, The Tavern Public. Here find beautifully served Wadworth 6X (yes, in a Berni) and Worthington E in peak condition — both on handpumps.

We’ve been collecting these bits of beer and pub slang for a while and thought they deserved a more permanent home than the occasional Tweet. act of parliament. c.1785. Military. Small beer, from the ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got etiquette, lager yeast and snow. First, some pub heritage news. CAMRA’s hard working Pub Heritage Group ...

“Which brands would have been available in an ordinary English pub of the 1950s or 1960s, including spirits and wines?” – paraphrased from correspondence To answer this, let’s pick a year; and let’s ...

In 1987, a pub-owning entrepreneur looked at British brewing and decided it wasn’t working. Stylishly packaged ranges of bottled beers trumpeting their purity and quality are easy to find these days.