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.

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Roadhouses emerged in Britain in the 1930s and were large, out-of-town entertainment complexes, sometimes serving drinks – not pubs. vast buildings… with facilities for dining, swimming, dancing, ...

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 ...

The first place we actually visited, though, was The Brewhouse & Kitchen in Southsea, which happened to be a handy place to wait for check-in at our hotel. We’ll write a bit more about that in a ...

Among the many treasures in the archive at the St Austell Brewery is a small notebook which contains more information about Watney’s beer than any source we’ve yet come across. At some point in the ...