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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Rome, Heaven and Belbroughton. First, some news of the ongoing rise in popularity of no- and low-alcohol ...

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 ...

Two questions: first, what the hell happened to Usher’s of Trowbridge? And secondly, how much research can you do into this question without visiting Trowbridge or, indeed, leaving your house at all?

Back in 2019 we wrote about Watney’s Red Barrel. Finding that post, Colin Prower has written to us with some of his memories of the brewery. In the very early 1960s I did school and college holiday ...

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 ...