Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Leeds, Manchester, Chicago and more.

Travelling for work recently I found myself profoundly grateful for the existence of the pub – somewhere not my lonely hotel room, not the office, an outpost of home. My job burns a lot of social ...

It’s possible for some pubs to be busy while others are struggling because every pub – or bar, or or taproom – exists in its ...

In my day job I spend a lot of time thinking about ‘user needs’ and, as people who go to the pub, we certainly know what we need from their internet presence.

Every Saturday we round up the week's best writing about beer. This time, we’ve got alcohol-free beer, Guinness, and AF ...

In January 2026 we drank in 23 distinct pubs together (16 in Bristol, 7 in London) plus a couple more each on our own. And we didn’t visit the same pub twice. We didn’t set out to make a mission of ...

We’ve always felt out of step when it comes to London brewery The Kernel. Why do others love their beer while we’re left cold? When we posted about our transcendent experience at the Saint Mars of the ...

Why on earth do people in pubs keep using their phones in speaker mode? And how do we stop it happening? On a recent trip to an otherwise peaceful pub we were treated to squawking phones by two ...

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 news of the passing of a beer blogger, among other things. First, some sad news: Peter Edwardson, AKA ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got rogues, underdogs and cheats. Sometimes, we hear about American breweries closing and think, oh, that’s ...