One unexpected feature of a few days passing through Serbia was a lively craft beer scene… overlaid with a dense fog of ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Belfast, brewery stats, and beer in the park. stats, and beers in the park. First, some news: updated ...

There’s more on the story by Bridget Dempsey at the Times & Star: Jennings Brewery was closed in 2022, but was acquired by Kurt Canfield, CEO of specialist engineering business Delkia, and Rebecca ...

UK beer blog running since 2007, with tasting notes, beer history, pub reports and commentary on British booze culture, by Jessica and Ray.

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 ...

For those of us who feel sad whenever a pub vanishes, this is a sad life. Progress, reconstruction, town-planning, war, all have one thing in common: the pubs go down before them like poppies under ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week – even when we’re on holiday. This time, we’ve got low-alcohol beer, fancy taps, and cheese. First, some news we’d missed: ...

Every week we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Breton pubs, pub grub, and sparklers. First, some news. At The Drinks Business Jessica Mason reports on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got community pubs, pub communities, and indie beer. First, some news from the recent Campaign for Real Ale ...