The topic for The Session this month, as set by Phil at Beer Diary, is pubs in fiction – which happens to be one of our ...

One unexpected feature of a few days passing through Serbia was a lively craft beer scene… overlaid with a dense fog of ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got California common, mild madness, and ‘banal nationalism’. First, a BrewDog update – something we’ve not ...

UK beer blog running since 2007, with tasting notes, beer history, pub reports and commentary on British booze culture, by Jessica and Ray.

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 ...

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 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 ...

We’ve been collecting these bits of beer and pub slang for a while and thought they deserved a more permanent home than the occasional Tweet. act of parliament. c.1785. Military. Small beer, from the ...

What imagery do you associate with craft beer? Hop cones? Beards? Skulls? The first two make sense but the third is, on reflection, a puzzle. In a craft beer bar in Burgas, Bulgaria, the other week, ...

When musician and comedian Robin Allender asked on Twitter “What are your favourite descriptions of pubs in novels or poems?” it made us realise just how many of these we’ve collected over the years.