People keep telling us that Hoegaarden, the famous Belgian wheat beer, is crap these days. So why do we enjoy it every time ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.