oh my god they actually did it lmao

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

You lay a trap for pro/anti-beer snobs and both sides walk straight into it. This week’s @thetimes.com column celebrates US beers you can - for now - buy here. Two of them are £30 a bottle. The comments went exactly as I hoped… (paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Brewers! Are yo making a special Christmas beer and if so what is it please?

Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you You know what else can recommend books to you ~a fucking librarian~

This week in @thetimes.com I was challenged to find pubs (other than Spoons) where you can still get a pint for under a fiver. This isn't a complete list but it features some absolute gems! (paywall) www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

As the sun sets on the last day of British Summertime 2025, one last hurrah.

Last week in a year of things that simply do not happen: a @barnsleyfc.bsky.social player scores one of the best goals in the history of football. Yeah, I know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4jx...

This week in @thetimes.com I'm celebrating srtong beers that should not be drunk by the pint. Unless you're @atjbeer.bsky.social. And I finally get revenge on Pivovar’s Jamie Hawksworth. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

There are few things more pleasing than going “Shit, I really must publicise that event on my socials,” and then finding out it’s sold out with four weeks to go! Thanks guys. Can you promote all my events?

Reasoinably pleased with the outcome of last night’s North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards - three second place awards and one third place. Best thing was Tasting Notes being runner-up for best book, pipped by @jonnygarrett.bsky.social's excellent The Meaning of Beer!

How did I miss this? Preparing my beer and music matching show for Sheffield tomorrow, foraging Sheff music and wow. This is one of the best fucking things I’ve seen and heard all year. Don't normally post music but sharing just in case you're as out of touch as I am. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOW...

Today in @thetimes.com we get serious and address one of the most important issues in today’s torrid and uncertain world: the growing popularity of the single-file queue in pubs. Reader discretion is advised. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

This week in @thetimes.com, after an exhausting week there in early September, it’s my best Lake District pubs! Online only this week I think. Many locals disagree with my choices. Do you? (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Today in @thetimes.com we're off to Oktoberfest! My three favourites from the classic Big Six Munich festbiers, and three British takes that are slightly different but just as good. (paywall) Please click, dwell and comment! www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Anyone else had your new favourite band dedicate their final song to you in front of a hometown sell-out crowd tonight? No? Just me? Ah well.

East Anglia! Last chance to get tickets for my beer and music matching shnow based on my new book, Tasting Notes, at Mannington Book Bash tomorrow, 2pm. Tickets available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thema...

House of Guinness on Netflix. Fuck me. They should think about entering that into Best Audio or Video Beer Communication, sponsored by Fuller, Smith & Turner, at next year’s Guild of Beer Writers Awards. Would easily get highly commended.

Help David push! David Holliday of Norfolk’s @moongazerale.bsky.social is saving lives. He’s doing 7 ultra-marathons in 7 days, and making it more interesting by pushing a 75kg beer barrel the whole way, in aid of testicular cancer. Please help this beery legend. moongazerale.co.uk/beer-push-20...

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...