It’s possible for some pubs to be busy while others are struggling because every pub – or bar, or or taproom – exists in its ...

Every Saturday we round up the week's best writing about beer. This time, we’ve got alcohol-free beer, Guinness, and AF ...

In my day job I spend a lot of time thinking about ‘user needs’ and, as people who go to the pub, we certainly know what we ...

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

In January 2026 we drank in 23 distinct pubs together (16 in Bristol, 7 in London) plus a couple more each on our own. And we ...

We heard and observed a few things that led us to believe January was pretty busy for UK pubs, despite expectations to the contrary.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday Tandleman (@tandleman) posted a load of pictures on Twitter from a 1960s Wilson’s brewery calendar. They’re great because (a) they show pub interiors, which is rare; and (b) they’re in ...

“I’ve been called a cultural terrorist,” said Jamie Ashley, the new landlord of The Swan With Two Necks, seeming offended, amused and confused in equal measure. In the past few months, he’s found ...