The Fargate in Sheffield city centre is a brand new flagship venue for local brewery Thornbridge. It’s huge and expensively ...

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

Christmas used to be when our worst instincts as beer geeks emerged. But these days, choosing fancy beers is down the list of ...

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.

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.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Bonn, Brussels and Borough. SOURCE: Katie Mather/The Gulp. Bad cropping ours. At her newsletter (blog) ...

We’ve been collecting these bits of beer and pub slang for a while and thought they deserved a more permanent home than the occasional Tweet. act of parliament. c.1785. Military. Small beer, from the ...

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 ...

A couple of weeks ago, Roger Protz quoted a Black Country brewer foretelling the eventual death of mild along with the passing of those who regularly drink it. But what if it’s just mutated? We once ...

This bumper #beerylongreads post is dedicated to the kind folks who have sponsored us via our Patreon page, like Chris France and Jon Urch — thanks! In 1988 the British government faced a now ...