British people can be oddly reluctant to share pub tables. Maybe it’s time to get over that and get better at asking “Are ...

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

Brewery taprooms often feel in conflict with their industrial surroundings, but few so much as The Brewery of St Mars of the ...

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

Then, a little later, a party of couples in their sixties took the table next to ours. When a friend phoned one of them, he ...

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.

In our email newsletter (subscribe!) we asked if anyone had any questions they’d like us to look into with a view to a series of ‘notes and queries’ type posts of which this is the first. Q: I wanted ...

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 ...

Yesterday Tandleman (@tandleman) posted a load of pictures on Twitter from a 1960s Wilson’s brewery calendar. They’re great because (a) they show pub interiors, which is rare; and (b) they’re in ...

This bumper #beerylongreads post is dedicated to the kind folks who have sponsored us via our Patreon page, like Chris France and Jon Urch — thanks! In 1988 the British government faced a now ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got production value, community, and inclusive beer festivals. First, news of the closure of one of ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got news of the passing of a beer blogger, among other things. First, some sad news: Peter Edwardson, AKA ...