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 ...
In 1976, the committee of a working men’s club on a new housing estate in Milton Keynes reneged on a deal to admit women as ...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got hobgoblins, rogues and saliva ...
Bristol has a huge number of pubs and a decent number of breweries. If you're in town for a few days or hours, where should ...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got etiquette, lager yeast and snow. First, some pub heritage news. CAMRA’s hard working Pub Heritage Group ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roadhouses emerged in Britain in the 1930s and were large, out-of-town entertainment complexes, sometimes serving drinks – not pubs. vast buildings… with facilities for dining, swimming, dancing, ...
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 ...
On the internet, one thing leads to another. This time, we ended up, via a Wikipedia wormhole, on the Dutch-language page for ‘Pasglas’. A pasglas is a tall beer glass from the 17th century used for ...
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.