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 shipwrecks, dive bars and Japan. First, by way of news, there’s a glimmer of hope in the latest stats ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Hanoi lager, warm ale and Belfast oysters. At first glance, the Bia hơi served in the Ba Dinh Sports ...

We’ve seen some great professional behaviour from the staff in pubs lately, from dealing with dodgy pints to treating customers with kindness. We’ve long said that the main thing we want from bar ...

If your pub is painted mostly grey or has an industrial look, it probably feels old-fashioned. The best modern pubs are just Victorian enough. These thoughts were prompted by The Crown Inn in ...

Longer, hotter summers are a serious existential challenge to cask ale – a product which already has its fair share of problems. Last year we wrote about the effect of heatwaves on pubs and our ...

The late Pub Curmudgeon might have popped up in the comments to say something like, “Well, I find that kind of thing intrusive and don’t like it”, as he occasionally did in the past. But we also get ...

UK beer blog running since 2007, with tasting notes, beer history, pub reports and commentary on British booze culture, by Jessica and Ray.