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

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

You can learn a lot about beer’s social position if you stare at a single copy of a magazine for long enough, like an edition ...

We let a beer guide put us off visiting Liège for too long but when we finally made it to the capital of Wallonia, we loved ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Bonn, Brussels and Borough. First, some news from Poland, as reported by Jessica Mason for The Drinks ...

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.

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 ...

This post was made possible by the support of Patreon subscribers like Nick Moyle and Sue Hart whose encouragement justified us spending several days of our free time researching and writing. If you ...

We’ve been collecting these bits of beer and pub slang for a while and thought they deserved a more permanent home than the occasional Tweet. act of parliament. c.1785. Military. Small beer, from the ...

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 ...