Sixty years ago England was hosting the football World Cup and pubs were very much part of the story. In 2026, it’s quite ...

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

Earlier this week the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) published a report called Beer in the UK which highlights, among other ...

When BrewDog got taken over and closed its central Bristol bar something interesting happened: a firm called Saviour Bars ...

America appears to be suffering from a fun shortage. For the industries supplying recreational amenities, this deficit is a ...

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

If you were designing a counter for the service of beer would you put a row of posts between the person serving and the ...

Our most local brewery, lager specialists Lost & Grounded, has redesigned its packaging after a decade with the same look, ...

Reading The Beer Nut’s tasting notes for Weihenstephaner Helles made us think about how we talk about Helles. In a typically perceptive, entertaining post he writes: My usual descriptor for good ...

We’ve decided to spend a week blogging like it’s 2008 again: more posts, shorter posts, and more bouncing off other bloggers.

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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got beauty spots and liminal spaces. The Brewers Association has their annual year-end numbers out for 2025 ...