Every Saturday we round up the week's best writing about beer. This time, we’ve got alcohol-free beer, Guinness, and AF Guinness. Sigh.

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

We heard and observed a few things that led us to believe January was pretty busy for UK pubs, despite expectations to the ...

In January 2026 we drank in 23 distinct pubs together (16 in Bristol, 7 in London) plus a couple more each on our own. And we ...

We’ve always felt out of step when it comes to London brewery The Kernel. Why do others love their beer while we’re left cold ...

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

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 ...