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

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

From the 1930s to the 1950s various lobbies expressed anxiety over the arrival of the “super pub” – public houses that were ...

It’s a given, isn’t it, that pubs are a good thing and deserve protection? Well, it turns out that many people disagree. At the weekend the UK Government announced new planning rules that make it ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got newstalgia, community spaces and hangmen. First, some stats on community pubs via the Campaign for Real ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got shipwrecks, dive bars and Japan. First, by way of news, there’s a glimmer of hope in the latest stats ...

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 ...

Sheffield’s Kelham Island brewery is important. Last year, it looked as if it was going to disappear, until it was saved, and the Pale Rider is riding again. For two weekends in a row, we’ve been able ...

“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 ...

We recently found ourselves sticking up for BrewDog Punk IPA on social media, much as we might be critical of the brewery as a business. “I never liked the beer anyway” or “It tastes like piss” are ...

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.

When Moor Beer owner Justin Hawke posted in support of the Israeli military, and criticised music festival attendees for pro-Palestinian and anti-IDF sentiments, he pulled the rug out from under his ...