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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got difficult dads, hilltop beer gardens and sea buckthorn. In the run up to Cask Ale Week, Timothy Taylor’s ...

Rosenheim is a city in Upper Bavaria with a population smaller than that of Taunton. We chose it as a stop on the way home from Czechia not realising that we’d picked the biggest weekend of the year ...

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 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got shipwrecks, dive bars and Japan. First, by way of news, there’s a glimmer of hope in the latest stats ...

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 ...

As you might have noticed, there’s been another heatwave in the UK, and we’ve noticed signs of drinkers and pubs adapting to this new reality. At The King’s Head the other week we found ourselves ...

Earlier this week the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) published a report called Beer in the UK which highlights, among other things, that many ‘world lagers’ are actually brewed in Britain. This is old ...

Reading The Beer Nut’s tasting notes for Weihenstephaner Helles made us think about how we talk about Helles. In a typically perceptive, entertaining post he writes: My usual descriptor for good ...