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

Last month we sent out our final newsletter. Here’s an experiment with what might replace it, with added sword dancing.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got London pubs, AI pushback, and Starkbier.

We all know that in the UK if you want to play darts you head to the pub. But where did this association between pubs and darts begin?

Modern tourism is often defined by a desire to see, visit, eat and drink the best a city has to offer. But everyone has a different idea of what ‘the best pub’ means.

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 ...

This bumper #beerylongreads post is dedicated to the kind folks who have sponsored us via our Patreon page, like Chris France and Jon Urch — thanks! In 1988 the British government faced a now ...

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 ...

We all knew we liked proper beer but the problem was, we didn’t know where to drink – we didn’t know where the pubs were. There was Frank Baillie’s Beer Drinker’s Companion but that was all about the ...

SOURCE: The Survey of London. George Dodd’s The Food of London is something of an overlooked gem published in 1856. Among many other passages worthy of attention in their own right, there’s a ...

This post was made possible by the support of Patreon subscribers like Nick Moyle and Sue Hart whose encouragement justified us spending several days of our free time researching and writing. If you ...