We revived The Session for a one-off event to celebrate the work of the late Martyn Cornell, asking people to write something ...

Porter is a dark beer, right? Pretty much black. Well, that was not always the case, as the late Martyn Cornell explains in ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got fruit lager, TV ads and AK.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got desi pubs, bad news and pub ...

Andreas Krennmair has a new book out focusing on ‘Bavarian white beer’, AKA Hefeweizen, AKA wheat beer. And it’s reminded us ...

UK beer blog running since 2007, with tasting notes, beer history, pub reports and commentary on British booze culture, by Jessica and Ray.

When musician and comedian Robin Allender asked on Twitter “What are your favourite descriptions of pubs in novels or poems?” it made us realise just how many of these we’ve collected over the years.

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 ...

“Which brands would have been available in an ordinary English pub of the 1950s or 1960s, including spirits and wines?” – paraphrased from correspondence To answer this, let’s pick a year; and let’s ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pink drinks, Gen Z and Burton unions. Speaking to db, Carlsberg Britvic premium beer marketing ...

The Oxford English Dictionary research team is asking for help identifying the origins of the phrase ‘lock in’ in relation to pubs. The earliest verifiable usage they’ve found is from as recently as ...

This is another in our series of posts sharing photographs and details about post-war pubs from mouldering magazines. This time, it’s John Smith’s of Tadcaster and the magazine is The Magnet. We’ve ...