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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It takes a long time for the reputation of a pub to turn around, and that can work both ways. For example, many people still believe Sam Smith pubs are good places for cheap beer in London. We’ve been ...

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 ...

SOURCE: The Survey of London. George Dodd’s The Food of London is something of an overlooked gem published in 1856. Among many other passages worthy of attention in their own right, there’s a ...

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.