Tasting Notes comes to the Abergavenny Food Festival! Just a few tickets left for my show this Saturday. Price includes four fantastic Welsh beers. But will I find four classic Welsh tunes to pair with them? booking.bookinghound.cloud/fe/booking?o...

"I said they are just ordinary people with legitimate concerns, peacefully protesting. What did I say Roy?" "You said they're a bunch of far right racist twats"

Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist who analyzed ancient cauldrons, shards of pottery and broken bottles to discover and then recreate the alcoholic beverages that intoxicated prehistoric civilizations, including booze found in the tomb of King Midas, died last month. He was 80.

Today in @thetimes.com I try to pick my eight favourite pubs in my recently adopted home city. Apologies to the other 20 that are easily good enough to feature here but had to be cut this time. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Why I like the Lidl Oktoberfest bier boxes; There's the anticipation. The hunt for a store nearby that actually stocks them. The opening of a gift box like Xmas morning & inspecting the contents. Deciding the order to drink them in. Reading that others have found some.

Just been called “the Jeremy Clarkson of beer” by someone who meant it as a compliment.

Isn't it brilliant how the brutal shooting of a man who said brutal shootings were “worth it” to preserve the second amendment is the fault of people who actively oppose the availability of weapons like the one used in the brutal shooting even though no one knows who the brutal shooter is yet?

So glad to be taking beer and music pairing to a city that does both brilliantly!

Just leaving this here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku0H...

Proof that time travel exists! Lillie Langtry's, Nottingham. Established 92 years before Lillie Langtry was born...

There are lies, damn lies, and people who deliberately misrepresent perfectly accurate statistics.

Today in @thetimes.com I'm looking at beers that are truly Spanish, not Span-ish. Please click, dwell and comment! (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Five days. 260 miles driven. 40 pubs visited. 50 half-pints drunk and evaluated. It’s not easy. If it was, it wouldn't be work. The Lake District is a tricky place to get around, but I’ve now got my eight best pubs there and you can read about them in @thetimes.com on 5th October.

I hate this rag. Burn to the ground

Hey! Running a pub in the Lake District? Want to attract more custom? Here’s a great idea! Why not put the opening hours of the pub somewhere - anywhere - on your webiste, social media accounts, or Google search entry?

Just about to talk on Times Radio about Gen Z putting ice in lager…

Today in @thetimes.com we're off to Tesco. While the beer range is dreadfully presented, there are some good deals and a few treasures, if you can find them. www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Always love @evanrail.bsky.social's writing. Delighted to talk to him about Tasting Notes.

Coming up to two years after I moved to Norfolk, an old magazine found in an antique shop in Bungay articulates the question on everyone’s mind:

East Anglian friends! I’m doing my first big Norfolk gig at the excellent Mannington Book Bash on 27th September, doing my epic beer and music matching show to promote new book Tasting Notes. Please come and see me! Ticket price includes a flight of beers. www.tickettailor.com/events/thema...

So who’s got Festbiers coming out in the next few weeks?

This week in @thetimes.com we’re off to Somerset! Eight fantastic pubs, many of which feel forgotten by time. Time for some cider! (paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

I had an absolute blast last week on @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social pairing drinks to the various new releases on the show as part of the launch of new book Tasting Notes. It’s available for another couple of weeks if you want to listen.The tunes are good! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Certainly the best one I’ve been to. Just glorious!

Unsolicited Writing Advice: no. 12675: "Write what you know" does NOT mean "Stop learning." The more you learn, the more you read, the more you experience, the more people you meet with different lives to yours, the more you're going to know, and that knowledge will make you a better writer.

In today’s @thetimes.com we celebrate the indie bottle shop! Shame I could only do 8. Find where your nearest bottle shop is and go buy a beer from them (paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Hi @greenmanfest.bsky.social are you *really* running a shuttle from Abergavenny station to the site. We’ve been waiting here for an hour now.

Well this is awesome beyond awesome. Tonight at 6pm I’m a guest on @bbc6music.bsky.social Round Table, reviewing the week’s new releases and quite possibly suggesting beer pairings for them ahead of my Tasting Notes launch at @greenmanfest.bsky.social tomorrow! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today in @thetimes.com, cos it’s summer, we’re doing fruit beers! No, wait, don't go - these ones are actually really good, and I explain the difference between good and bad. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Hello Brum! There are still just a few tickets left for Great British Beer Festival Special edition of my beer and music pairing show tonight! If you’re at the festival today but can't make the show, I’m also doing a book signing at 4pm at the CAMRA Books stand. tckty.camra.org.uk/e/374/great-...

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

The absolute fucking state of this. I genuinely do not understand the enthusiasm for shit robots replacing real human contact.

the scenario we all feared

Today in @thetimes.com I taste Aldi’s beers so you don't have to! I managed to find six that I would happily rank alongside the best beers from anywhere else. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Just watched Threads for the second time and realised why it’s been 40 years since I first watched it. It needs more gags.

Imagine putting the welfare and safety of human beings and the future of the planet above greater profits for huge fossil fuel multinationals. The EU really are a bunch of bastards, aren't they?

Posts like this are my absolute favourite thing on social media.

Tried a few beer & music pairings from @petebrownbeer.bsky.social book Tasting Notes this eve: - Duvel + @pixiesofficial.bsky.social, Debaser - #Orval + Patti Smith, Land - @thornbridge.bsky.social Jaipur + New Order, Temptation It’s a great book - I’d strongly recommend. I’ll do more parings soon.

Today in @thetimes.com we go to Edinburgh! Eight fantastic, varied (and in one case controversial) pubs just in time for the Festival. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

You know who’s really fucking our country up? Not techbros who want to replace you with AI. Not billionaires, whose wealth is soaring while everyone else is getting poorer. No. The people who are really in charge, really fucking us up, are those bastards on bikes. That's where the real power is.

Say, who's that near the bottom, sandwiched between the UK Poster Association and the pop quiz? It’s only my @greenmanfest.bsky.social beer and music matching, which this year launches Tasting Notes, the book of the event! If you’re not at Green Man, check out petebrown.net for more events.

The most shocking thing about BrewDog’s announcement today that it is closing ten bars, is that the closures include all the ones that used to be really good, that people used to travel to get to. Aberdeen, Camden, Shepherd’s Bush, Leeds, Shoreditch… these are the bars where BrewDog was built.

I know nearly everyone communicates directly by phone/socials these days, but if you're a PR agency and you have a main switchboard number, and no one answers that number when it rings, you deserve to be fired by every client single you have. YOU HAVE ONE JOB - COMMUNICATION.

Delighted to see Clubland recommended in the Summer Reading List for Parliamentarians! I feel very grown up. Thank you @kirstymcneill.bsky.social

Today in @thetimes.com I atone for having joked that nobody drinks mild anymore. Comments suggest there’s lots of unmet demand for the old workhorse! (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

It’s finally here! My new book, Tasting Notes: The Art and Science of Pairing Beer with Music, is out now, from @camraofficial.bsky.social Books. Read all about it here - www.petebrown.net/2025/07/14/m...

This has been one of the happiest days of my life. Today is the 5th consecutive day I have thought this. Norfolk: you’re alright.

Given that I have to write this column 3 weeks in advance, the timing is perfect: today in @thetimes.com, 6 great BBQ beers! Whether you’re stationed at the grill for the afternoon or looking for the perfect pairing for your burger, there’s a beer for that (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Honestly the only times I have EVER heard of Biddy Clyro is on BBC festival coverage.