London brewer Mann’s, best known for its brown ale, also had a product called ‘Rustic Ale’. What meaning were those two words ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got etiquette, lager yeast and ...

Beyond their functional purpose pubs also play an important role in preserving the spirit of the places where they’re found – ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Warsaw, BrewDog and Norwegian ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Warsaw, BrewDog and Norwegian funeral beer. First, news that the winners of the first Women in Beer ...

We’ve been collecting these bits of beer and pub slang for a while and thought they deserved a more permanent home than the occasional Tweet. act of parliament. c.1785. Military. Small beer, from the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...