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 ...

We heard and observed a few things that led us to believe January was pretty busy for UK pubs, despite expectations to the contrary. Our first inkling came, as it usually does, from what we saw with ...

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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got a lot of lovely pubs. First, some news from Thornbridge, which has apparently sold a lot of Jaipur in ...

“Last year, more than 3.5 million pints of Jaipur were brewed for cask. According to the latest data from CGA, this achievement places the flagship IPA as the ninth best-selling cask beer in Britain… ...

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 ...

The person behind the counter was friendly and welcoming, though, even if their patter did seem to have evolved in response to tourists who know nothing about beer. We got warnings about, and unasked ...