Because Belgian or Belgian-style Witbier has become such a minority style these days we forget just how good it is in hot weather. Lost & Grounded, our local taproom, has had Hop Hand Fallacy, a ...

As you might have noticed, there’s been another heatwave in the UK, and we’ve noticed signs of drinkers and pubs adapting to ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pubs by bike, Nigerian ...

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

Sixty years ago England was hosting the football World Cup and pubs were very much part of the story. In 2026, it’s quite ...

Because Belgian or Belgian-style Witbier has become such a minority style these days we forget just how good it is in hot weather. Lost & Grounded, our local taproom, has had Hop Hand Fallacy, a ...

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 ...

The married landlord and landlady, the stout yeoman of the bar and his good lady wife, Basils and Sybils, used to dominate British pub life. We were reminded of this when a friend gave us yet another ...

“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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got rogues, underdogs and cheats. Sometimes, we hear about American breweries closing and think, oh, that’s ...

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 ...