The topic for The Session this month, as set by Phil at Beer Diary, is pubs in fiction – which happens to be one of our ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got California common, mild madness, and ‘banal nationalism’. First, a BrewDog update – something we’ve not ...

One unexpected feature of a few days passing through Serbia was a lively craft beer scene… overlaid with a dense fog of ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Belfast, brewery stats, and beer in the park. stats, and beers in the park. First, some news: updated ...

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For those of us who feel sad whenever a pub vanishes, this is a sad life. Progress, reconstruction, town-planning, war, all have one thing in common: the pubs go down before them like poppies under ...

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 ...

This post was made possible by the support of Patreon subscribers like Nick Moyle and Sue Hart whose encouragement justified us spending several days of our free time researching and writing. If you ...

Returning to Sheffield after several years we were delighted to find that it’s still a great city for pubs, albeit one under some strain. We like to have a plan, or play a game, when we have limited ...