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

British people can be oddly reluctant to share pub tables. Maybe it’s time to get over that and get better at asking “Are ...

Brewery taprooms often feel in conflict with their industrial surroundings, but few so much as The Brewery of St Mars of the ...

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

Then, a little later, a party of couples in their sixties took the table next to ours. When a friend phoned one of them, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

With enough data you could probably predict when pubs will be busy, or quiet. But, occasionally, it seems to be a mystery. Years ago, Jess was involved, at a remove, in the management of a ...

The ‘Real Ale Twats’ strip first appeared in the adult comic Viz in 2001 and has a cult following among beer enthusiasts, because they recognise in it either themselves, or The Enemy. We’re long-time ...

Henekey’s was one of London’s most famous pubs and kickstarted a pub chain more than 50 years before Wetherspoon ever existed. In 1831 a London wine merchant called George Henekey, born in 1784 and in ...

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 ...