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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At a Fuller’s pub in West London on Friday night we drank perfect ESB – one of life’s greatest pleasures. Despite takeovers (Fuller’s is part of Asahi these days) there’s a definite romance about its ...
When BrewDog got taken over and closed its central Bristol bar something interesting happened: a firm called Saviour Bars took it over, lock, stock and barrel, and kept it trading. At first, it was ...
When musician and comedian Robin Allender asked on Twitter “What are your favourite descriptions of pubs in novels or poems?” it made us realise just how many of these we’ve collected over the years.
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 ...
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 ...
You know The Crown Inn: it’s the gorgeous Victorian pub beneath the wonder of the world that is the Stockport viaduct. It’s a much photographed scene because it tells a story about the grandeur of the ...
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 ...