As you might have noticed, there’s been another heatwave in the UK, and we’ve noticed signs of drinkers and pubs adapting to ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pubs by bike, Nigerian ...

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

America appears to be suffering from a fun shortage. For the industries supplying recreational amenities, this deficit is a ...

Earlier this week the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) published a report called Beer in the UK which highlights, among other ...

Sixty years ago England was hosting the football World Cup and pubs were very much part of the story. In 2026, it’s quite ...

Reading The Beer Nut’s tasting notes for Weihenstephaner Helles made us think about how we talk about Helles. In a typically perceptive, entertaining post he writes: My usual descriptor for good ...

As you might have noticed, there’s been another heatwave in the UK, and we’ve noticed signs of drinkers and pubs adapting to this new reality. At The King’s Head the other week we found ourselves ...

When BrewDog got taken over and closed its central Bristol bar something interesting happened: a firm called Saviour Bars ...

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 ...

“Which brands would have been available in an ordinary English pub of the 1950s or 1960s, including spirits and wines?” – paraphrased from correspondence To answer this, let’s pick a year; and let’s ...

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 ...