Honourable mentions: Hobson’s Mild, 3.2%, which we really got for the first time this past summer; Ashley Down Red Stoat, 5.2 ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got news of the passing of a beer ...

In 1976, the committee of a working men’s club on a new housing estate in Milton Keynes reneged on a deal to admit women as ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got hobgoblins, rogues and saliva ...

Bristol has a huge number of pubs and a decent number of breweries. If you're in town for a few days or hours, where should ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In its 44 years of existence, the Campaign for Real Ale has had a more complicated relationship with lager than cries of ‘fizzy piss’ from some members might have you believe. In the early 1970s, ...

In our email newsletter (subscribe!) we asked if anyone had any questions they’d like us to look into with a view to a series of ‘notes and queries’ type posts of which this is the first. Q: I wanted ...

Among the many treasures in the archive at the St Austell Brewery is a small notebook which contains more information about Watney’s beer than any source we’ve yet come across. At some point in the ...