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

Honourable mentions: Hobson’s Mild, 3.2%, which we really got for the first time this past summer; Ashley Down Red Stoat, 5.2 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best beer writing from the past week. This time, we’ve got loaded fries, Czech beer culture, and dodgy biographies. First, some fairly minor news, we suppose, that just ...

In our email newsletter (subscribe!) we asked if anyone had any questions they’d like us to look into with a view to a series of ‘notes and queries’ type posts of which this is the first. Q: I wanted ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got production value, community, and inclusive beer festivals. First, news of the closure of one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

Among the many treasures in the archive at the St Austell Brewery is a small notebook which contains more information about Watney’s beer than any source we’ve yet come across. At some point in the ...

The first place we actually visited, though, was The Brewhouse & Kitchen in Southsea, which happened to be a handy place to wait for check-in at our hotel. We’ll write a bit more about that in a ...

When we found a yellowing copy of the local CAMRA magazine from 1996 for 50p of course we bought it, because it’s become a valuable record of the city’s beer scene 30 years ago. As we’ve often ...