Yesterday afternoon, the trumpet player from a surf-punk band grabbed the mic to thank the crowd for coming to an Oktoberfest ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got honey beer, gale beer, and estate pubs.

Listen to people who run pubs and you’ll inevitably hear them grumbling about the behaviour and preferences of customers. It ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got GBBF, Mexico, malt, and more.

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.

“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 ...

It takes a long time for the reputation of a pub to turn around, and that can work both ways. For example, many people still believe Sam Smith pubs are good places for cheap beer in London. We’ve been ...

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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. Even, it turns out, when we’re travelling across Europe. (We can’t promise to keep this up.) We’re writing this particular ...

The LIDL supermarket made a big deal of its revamped beer offer back in 2015 and the Hatherwood Craft Beer Company range was its sly centrepiece. We got given a box set of six by a friend — a cute ...