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

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 ‘Real Ale Twats’ strip first appeared in the adult comic Viz in 2001 and has a cult following among beer enthusiasts, because they recognise in it either themselves, or The Enemy. We’re long-time ...

Interviewing farm-workers in East Anglia the folklorist and oral historian George Ewart Evans discovered what in publishing blurbs would be trumpeted as an ‘untold story’: the mass movement of men ...

For Session #145 Matthew Curtis has asked everyone to write a critique of beer, or pubs, or some aspect of beer and pub culture. His point, picking up on something he raised last year, is that beer ...

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 ...

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 ...

People keep telling us that Hoegaarden, the famous Belgian wheat beer, is crap these days. So why do we enjoy it every time we drink it? It might be nostalgia, of course. Hoegaarden was one of the ...

In 1892, Eliza Orme undertook a painstaking investigation into the working lives of barmaids, producing a report which takes us back to the pubs of the past with incredible vividness. Eliza Orme was ...

In our email newsletter (subscribe!) we asked if anyone had any questions they’d like us to look into with a view to a series of ‘notes and queries’ type posts of which this is the first. Q: I wanted ...