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

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got cask sales down, cask sales ...

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 ...

One thing our recent holiday brought home is that we’re definitely over the urge to visit every brewery or important pub in any given city. In the early days of this blog (it turns 20 next year) we ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got hop farming, Nottingham, and Cluedo. First, some news from the climate change frontline: the last ...

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 ...

We ended up at Pult because our local guide, Evan Rail, suggested it with the caveat that, as a venue, it’s a bit global Brooklyn. Well, it is, and it isn’t. On this trip around Czechia, and last year ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got lists, pub crawls and ‘GDPI’. First, some news. Or, rather, some ‘news’: Prime Minister Andy Burnham has ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got newstalgia, community spaces and hangmen. Since May’s bulletin, the number of community-owned pubs has ...