On a recent trip to Liège we ended up visiting a couple of more modern bars which, although very pleasant, didn’t give us ...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got baked beer, Cornish IPA and ...
People keep telling us that Hoegaarden, the famous Belgian wheat beer, is crap these days. So why do we enjoy it every time ...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got struggling pubs, Gen Z ...
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 baked beer, Cornish IPA and haunted pubs. First, some news. The shortlist for the first Women in Beer ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...