When did sofas (or settees, or couches) start appearing in pubs? And what does their presence say about the type of pub ...

The increasing ubiquity, quality and variety of alcohol-free beer has meant that it’s slowly become a meaningful part of our ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got expired beer, closed taprooms ...

When did sofas (or settees, or couches) start appearing in pubs? And what does their presence say about the type of pub you’re in? Pub sofas are generally big, squishy, and covered with leather.

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 ...

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 ...

A Berni Inn, but don’t be putt off. Just make for the back bar, The Tavern Public. Here find beautifully served Wadworth 6X (yes, in a Berni) and Worthington E in peak condition — both on handpumps.

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 Hanoi lager, warm ale and Belfast oysters. At first glance, the Bia hơi served in the Ba Dinh Sports ...

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.

Brno, the capital of Moravia, is Czechia’s second city and was the primary goal of our recent round trip by train. As lovers of beer, architecture, history and folk tradition, we found plenty to enjoy ...

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 ...