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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

We all knew we liked proper beer but the problem was, we didn’t know where to drink – we didn’t know where the pubs were. There was Frank Baillie’s Beer Drinker’s Companion but that was all about the ...

We never knew, or never noticed, The Mayors Arms, one of Bristol’s few surviving post war buildings. And now it’s set for demolition. Actually, we did notice it – just not before 2009 when it was ...

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.

Fred Pearce wrote a series of paperback pub guides in the 1970s including this 52 page run around the pubs of Bristol. We’ve now scanned it and took the PDF out for a test drive around Redcliffe last ...