We’ve decided to spend a week blogging like it’s 2008 again: more posts, shorter posts, and more bouncing off other bloggers.

If you were designing a counter for the service of beer would you put a row of posts between the person serving and the ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got deaths, rebirths and football ...

We revived The Session for a one-off event to celebrate the work of the late Martyn Cornell, asking people to write something ...

Porter is a dark beer, right? Pretty much black. Well, that was not always the case, as the late Martyn Cornell explains in ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got fruit lager, TV ads and AK.

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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pink drinks, Gen Z and Burton unions. Speaking to db, Carlsberg Britvic premium beer marketing ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got beauty spots and liminal spaces. The Brewers Association has their annual year-end numbers out for 2025 ...

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 ...

Believe it or not, there’s been a lot of good writing about beer and pubs in 2024, with a few key themes emerging. Because it’s easy to get nostalgic for the supposed golden age of beer blogging 10 or ...

The married landlord and landlady, the stout yeoman of the bar and his good lady wife, Basils and Sybils, used to dominate British pub life. We were reminded of this when a friend gave us yet another ...