Beyond their functional purpose pubs also play an important role in preserving the spirit of the places where they’re found – ...

Beyond their functional purpose pubs also play an important role in preserving the spirit of the places where they’re found – ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got alehouses, green hops and ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Bonn, Brussels and Borough.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got alehouses, green hops and Mormonism. First, some exciting news for fans of German beer: James Clay & ...

You can learn a lot about beer’s social position if you stare at a single copy of a magazine for long enough, like an edition ...

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 ...

“Which brands would have been available in an ordinary English pub of the 1950s or 1960s, including spirits and wines?” – paraphrased from correspondence To answer this, let’s pick a year; and let’s ...

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 ...