Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got production value, community, ...

We’ve just spent a few days in London stomping our way through the West, the East and the South, stopping to look at pubs and ...

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

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

London brewer Mann’s, best known for its brown ale, also had a product called ‘Rustic Ale’. What meaning were those two words ...

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 ...

“Which brands would have been available in an ordinary English pub of the 1950s or 1960s, including spirits and wines?” – paraphrased from correspondence To answer this, let’s pick a year; and let’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Bonn, Brussels and Borough. SOURCE: Katie Mather/The Gulp. Bad cropping ours. At her newsletter (blog) ...

In December 1989, 60-year-old, 20-stone Ronald Henry Fincham stripped naked and climbed into a vat of beer at the brewery in Romford, where he drowned. He was celebrating 25-years service at the ...