It can be difficult to know if a pub really is brilliant or whether anticipation – and the effort of getting there – obliges ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got struggling pubs, Gen Z ...

Yesterday afternoon, the trumpet player from a surf-punk band grabbed the mic to thank the crowd for coming to an Oktoberfest ...

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

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got GBBF, Mexico, malt, and more.

“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.

Fred Pearce wrote a series of paperback pub guides in the 1970s including this 52 page run around the pubs of Bristol. We’ve now scanned it and took the PDF out for a test drive around Redcliffe last ...

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 ...

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 ...