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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pork, Stockport and the Reinheitsgebot. First, a pleasingly minor bit of news: a pub in Lincolnshire has ...