4 days ago · Hazel Southwell, who runs a pub in Erith, South London, has provided an insider’s view of the Guinness shortage in her excellent newsletter Behind the Bar:. The first thing is: the Guinness shortage is real. How a company as massive as Diageo has fucked up this badly is a story that someone with more time than me could have a lot of fun investigating, since there’s …

3 days ago · Hazel Southwell, who runs a pub in Erith, South London, has provided an insider’s view of the Guinness shortage in her excellent newsletter Behind the Bar:. The first thing is: the Guinness shortage is real. How a company as massive as Diageo has fucked up this badly is a story that someone with more time than me could have a lot of fun investigating, since there’s …

Dec 29, 2024 · Our latest book is Balmy Nectar, a collection of the best of our writing from here on the blog and across various magazines since 2012.It's available via Amazon worldwide. Our book 20th Century Pub was released in 2017 and is an award-winning rattle through the development of the English pub from beerhouses to micropubs. A new edition of Brew Britannia: the strange …

Jan 11, 2025 · SOURCE: Pellicle/Mark Hill. An article by Eoghan Walsh, one of our favourite writers, at Pellicle, one of our favourite publications?That went into the bookmarks folder for this round up before we’d even read it. It’s about a cult Irish beer, O’Hara’s Leann Folláin extra Irish stout, and the circumstances that led to its creation: 2008 was an important year for Seamus …

Jan 31, 2025 · Our latest book is Balmy Nectar, a collection of the best of our writing from here on the blog and across various magazines since 2012.It's available via Amazon worldwide. Our book 20th Century Pub was released in 2017 and is an award-winning rattle through the development of the English pub from beerhouses to micropubs. A new edition of Brew Britannia: the strange …

Jan 25, 2025 · A Bier Keller. At Craft Beer & Brewing editor Joe Stange has given himself space to explore one of his own obsessions: German Kellerbier.The article starts with a warning about the depth of this rabbit hole, then takes us way down into it: In 1807, Joachim Heinrich Campe wrote what’s considered one of the most important German dictionaries of his era.

Nov 9, 2024 · Wigan Central, Wigan. SOURCE: Chris Dyson/Real Ale, Real Music. Blimey, Wigan looks like a good day out! Chris Dyson has written about his crawl around the pubs of the Greater Manchester (formerly Lancashire) town which was nearly scuppered by the first pub being too good:. Just around the corner, occupying a couple of arches in the railway bridge on which sits …

Oct 12, 2024 · Here’s all the writing about beer and pubs that grabbed us in the past week, from Manchester to Acid House. First, a few bits of news: Thornbridge & Co (a partnership between Thornbridge and Pivovar) is planning to open a pub in London in 2025.It seems a long way from home but there’s no denying that our immediate reaction is pleasure at the thought of knowing …

Dec 15, 2024 · The Albert, Keighley. SOURCE: Chris Dyson/Real Ale, Real Music. At Real Ale, Real Music Chris Dyson has an interesting companion piece to the recent Pellicle article about Timothy Taylor – that is, a pub crawl of Keighley.Where, of course, Taylor’s rules: It had been years since I’d last had a beer in Keighley. Back in the 1970s and 1980s..

Our latest book is Balmy Nectar, a collection of the best of our writing from here on the blog and across various magazines since 2012.It's available via Amazon worldwide. Our book 20th Century Pub was released in 2017 and is an award-winning rattle through the development of the English pub from beerhouses to micropubs. A new edition of Brew Britannia: the strange rebirth of …