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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOURCE: The Survey of London. George Dodd’s The Food of London is something of an overlooked gem published in 1856. Among many other passages worthy of attention in their own right, there’s a ...

In the 1970s and 80s pubs added video game arcade machines to their roster of attractions, in pursuit of younger customers and additional revenue. We sort of knew this but had forgotten it. We both ...

Every Saturday we round up the best beer writing from the past week. This time, we’ve got loaded fries, Czech beer culture, and dodgy biographies. First, some fairly minor news, we suppose, that just ...

On a recent trip to Liège we ended up visiting a couple of more modern bars which, although very pleasant, didn’t give us what we want from Belgian beer. Surrounded by ducting and graffiti inspired ...