Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got London pubs, AI pushback, and Starkbier.

Modern tourism is often defined by a desire to see, visit, eat and drink the best a city has to offer. But everyone has a ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pub influencers, brewery sales and buzzers. We usually start these round-ups with an item or two of beer ...

We all know that in the UK if you want to play darts you head to the pub. But where did this association between pubs and darts begin?

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.

Back in 2019 we wrote about Watney’s Red Barrel. Finding that post, Colin Prower has written to us with some of his memories of the brewery. In the very early 1960s I did school and college holiday ...

“This is a basement under the angle between Shaftesbury Avenue and Coventry Street. It is not trying to be Irish; it just is. A big, bare room with a central zinc-topped bar; no concession to comfort, ...

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 Leeds, Manchester, Chicago and more. First, some news: Molson Coors is closing the Sharp’s brewery in ...

In 1892, Eliza Orme undertook a painstaking investigation into the working lives of barmaids, producing a report which takes us back to the pubs of the past with incredible vividness. Eliza Orme was ...

“What are the best places to find stout in central London?” asks Stuart via Patreon. It’s a good question. London is strongly associated, historically, with porter and stout but these days it’s hard ...