Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got production value, community, ...

We’ve just spent a few days in London stomping our way through the West, the East and the South, stopping to look at pubs and ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got rogues, underdogs and cheats.

London brewer Mann’s, best known for its brown ale, also had a product called ‘Rustic Ale’. What meaning were those two words ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got etiquette, lager yeast and ...

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.

The set of Guinness papers we’ve been sorting through for their owner includes a fairly complete two-decade run of Guinness Time, the in-house magazine for the brewery at Park Royal. While the ...

For those of us who feel sad whenever a pub vanishes, this is a sad life. Progress, reconstruction, town-planning, war, all have one thing in common: the pubs go down before them like poppies under ...

Returning to Sheffield after several years we were delighted to find that it’s still a great city for pubs, albeit one under some strain. We like to have a plan, or play a game, when we have limited ...

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 ...