We can’t stop thinking about what the resurgence of interest in Bass might mean and whether it is good or bad news for the wider beer culture. On the one hand, a heritage brand with hundreds of years ...

Bristol is not oversupplied with historic pubs and those it has have not generally been well preserved. The Kings Head on ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Bass, barley wine, and bambini.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got various reflections on the ...

When Moor Beer owner Justin Hawke posted in support of the Israeli military, and criticised music festival attendees for pro-Palestinian and anti-IDF sentiments, he pulled the rug out from under his ...

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 ...

This bumper #beerylongreads post is dedicated to the kind folks who have sponsored us via our Patreon page, like Chris France and Jon Urch — thanks! In 1988 the British government faced a now ...

The Expo in Brussels in 1958 was an opportunity for Britain to present its culture to the world so, of course, we sent a pub. At a press conference in 1957, it was announced that 500 British ‘concerns ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Irish pubs, pub sofas, and barroom fiction. First, an interesting nugget of news: Leeds-based craft ...

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 ...