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 ...

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

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got dodgy dates, kidney beans and ...

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

The modern idea of the prohibition-era speakeasy is distorted via cinematic fantasies of the jazz age and by hipsterish ...

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 ...

Fred Pearce wrote a series of paperback pub guides in the 1970s including this 52 page run around the pubs of Bristol. We’ve now scanned it and took the PDF out for a test drive around Redcliffe last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.