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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

When Moor Beer owner Justin Hawke posted in support of the Israeli military, and criticised music festival attendees for pro-Palestinian and anti-IDF sentiments, he pulled the rug out from under his ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got production value, community, and inclusive beer festivals. First, news of the closure of one of ...

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 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.

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 ...