Honourable mentions: Hobson’s Mild, 3.2%, which we really got for the first time this past summer; Ashley Down Red Stoat, 5.2 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got news of the passing of a beer ...

Bristol has a huge number of pubs and a decent number of breweries. If you're in town for a few days or hours, where should ...

In 1976, the committee of a working men’s club on a new housing estate in Milton Keynes reneged on a deal to admit women as ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago today, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling made this statement as part of his spring budget speech: Under the present law, people who brew beer either for their ...

At a Fuller’s pub in West London on Friday night we drank perfect ESB – one of life’s greatest pleasures. Despite takeovers (Fuller’s is part of Asahi these days) there’s a definite romance about its ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got etiquette, lager yeast and snow. First, some pub heritage news. CAMRA’s hard working Pub Heritage Group ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week – even when we’re on holiday, apparently. This time, we’ve got UNESCO, green beer, and the absence of gammon at JDW. In ...