Our most local brewery, lager specialists Lost & Grounded, has redesigned its packaging after a decade with the same look, ...

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.

On Sunday 28 June 2026 we’re going to post something inspired by the late Martyn Cornell’s final epic work of beer history Porter and Stout. We’d love you to join us. The first problem is that the ...

Every week we round up the best beer writing from the past week. This time, we’ve got ’Spoons, the Black Country and a dissenting opinion on low alcohol booze. First, news of the death of an important ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got desi pubs, bad news and pub crawls. First, news from the World Cup and from Boston that seems to confirm ...

Andreas Krennmair has a new book out focusing on ‘Bavarian white beer’, AKA Hefeweizen, AKA wheat beer. And it’s reminded us to check in with this intriguing style. Out and about in Bristol’s pubs ...

Ask someone to describe the décor of a traditional pub and they might well mention horse brasses. Horse brasses are yellow-metal plates or plaques originally used to decorate horse harnesses. In pubs, ...