Last month we sent out our final newsletter. Here’s an experiment with what might replace it, with added sword dancing.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got London pubs, AI pushback, and Starkbier.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pub influencers, brewery sales and buzzers. We usually start these round-ups with an item or two of beer ...

We all know that in the UK if you want to play darts you head to the pub. But where did this association between pubs and darts begin?

Modern tourism is often defined by a desire to see, visit, eat and drink the best a city has to offer. But everyone has a different idea of what ‘the best pub’ means.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The set of Guinness papers we’ve been sorting through for their owner includes a fairly complete two-decade run of Guinness Time, the in-house magazine for the brewery at Park Royal. While the ...

For a beer with a national profile Thornbridge Jaipur can be surprisingly hard to find on draught. That’s a shame because it’s still wonderful. We came across it at The Old Fish Market in Bristol last ...