There’s a lot more to running a pub than just selling booze, especially if your pub has any employees whatsoever. Because the ...

Oh, I’m sorry, we’re all sold out of the Gose – it’s been very popular!” “We wanted to brew something like Courage Best but it was actually really hard to find anywhere in Bristol so we could even try ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got AI backlash, Sri Lankan lager ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pink drinks, Gen Z and Burton unions. Speaking to db, Carlsberg Britvic premium beer marketing ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got beauty spots and liminal spaces. The Brewers Association has their annual year-end numbers out for 2025 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When musician and comedian Robin Allender asked on Twitter “What are your favourite descriptions of pubs in novels or poems?” it made us realise just how many of these we’ve collected over the years.

When we found a yellowing copy of the local CAMRA magazine from 1996 for 50p of course we bought it, because it’s become a valuable record of the city’s beer scene 30 years ago. As we’ve often ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got gossip, cask stout and farmhouse yeast. First, some good intel from Charlotte Cook who has noticed that ...

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?