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.

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.

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 ...

Ask someone to describe the décor of a traditional pub and they might well mention horse brasses. Horse brasses are yellow-metal plates or plaques originally used to decorate horse harnesses. In pubs, ...

Every week we round up the best beer writing from the past week. This time, we’ve got ’Spoons, the Black Country and a dissenting opinion on low alcohol booze. First, news of the death of an important ...

On Sunday 28 June 2026 we’re going to post something inspired by the late Martyn Cornell’s final epic work of beer history Porter and Stout. We’d love you to join us. The first problem is that the ...

The Langton, one of our local pubs, always seems to be busy. The trick seems to be that it does a little bit of everything, and appeals to everybody. When we visited recently there were no seats in ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got cheap pints, seaweed in beer and Lidl. First, some news: Queer Brewing is closing, after more than five ...