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Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got beauty spots and liminal ...

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

The Rising Sun at Frampton Cotterell, South Gloucestershire, was named the best pub in Bristol by the local CAMRA branch in ...

When Moor Beer owner Justin Hawke posted in support of the Israeli military, and criticised music festival attendees for pro-Palestinian and anti-IDF sentiments, he pulled the rug out from under his ...

Back in 2019 we wrote about Watney’s Red Barrel. Finding that post, Colin Prower has written to us with some of his memories of the brewery. In the very early 1960s I did school and college holiday ...

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 ...

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 ...

Courage built a lot of new pubs in the period of economic rejuvenation after World War II, as documented in a volume held at Bristol’s central library. A few weeks ago a special exhibition was laid on ...

Two questions: first, what the hell happened to Usher’s of Trowbridge? And secondly, how much research can you do into this question without visiting Trowbridge or, indeed, leaving your house at all?

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got alcohol-free beer, Guinness, and alcohol-free Guinness. First, some sad news: beer writer Des de Moor ...

People keep telling us that Hoegaarden, the famous Belgian wheat beer, is crap these days. So why do we enjoy it every time we drink it? It might be nostalgia, of course. Hoegaarden was one of the ...