Footage of Hook Norton, still steam powered in 1974. (CAMSPA – the Campaign for Steam Powered Ale?) youtu.be/HHDESSHVpcc

Funeral pints and the contemplation of mortality atjpubs.substack.com/p/funeral-pi...

Amélie’s in the news! (Thanks to @britbeerwriters.bsky.social for sharing her award win) www.beerguild.co.uk/news/women-i...

Adnams head brewer, Dan Gooderham declared Brewer of the Year at The Brewer’s Choice Awards. adnams.co.uk/blogs/journa...

International coverage for #CaskAleWeek - Gen Z is saving cask ale in the U.K. www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/featured/gen...

Yet another of those academic studies that tell you something you already knew 🙂

It's absolutely insane to us that anyone still uses Twitter. You don't have to. You can just stop. It was a *massive* part of our growth but you can just let it go. However important your business is to you, it's less important than this:

CAMRA reveals the ‘stark reality’ of its financial woes www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/09/camr... @teamdb.bsky.social

Sorry to be right about this. No GBBF next year as it made “a substantial loss”, according to CAMRA

In February 2024 I visited French & Jupps, the UKs oldest existing maltster, and roasted malt specialist. I’d never heard of them before, despite them being in operation since 1689. It’s story fascinated me, so I wrote it for @pelliclemag.com here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

Just thought I’d say…

Vaccines do not cause autism.

"Liquid Green – cutting through the myriad of new liquid hop aroma products" Just had new piece published in Brewers Journal on how we've used liquid hop products to drive up packaged yield. www.brewersjournal.info/liquid-green...

We've got Adnams on the Discovery Bar at Peterborough today, and I'm fanboying in a retro brewery t-shirt! 🤣

Baffled and proud to have a feature in @ftweekend.com today! All about the death and hopefully rebirth of British hop farming. Massive thanks to St Austell, Buxton and Farams for the info, and to @petebrownbeer.bsky.social for connecting me.

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...

Brief morning walk along the seafront

Sad news from Elgood's Brewery. I met Scruffy a few times on visits to see Head Brewer Alan Pateman. Her appearance on the wort cooler during an IBD brewery tour will live on. RIP 🐈‍⬛🌈

@camraofficial.bsky.social Champion Beer of Britain 2025 NEC Birmingham: Penzance Brewing Co Mild ABV 3.6 has been crowned #CBOB2025. Runner Up: Sarah Hughes Snowflake ABV 8 Barley Wine Bronze: Church End Fallen Angel Pale Ale ABV 5. Congratulations to all. #BskyBeer

Martyn Cornell's major study of the origins, history & revival of Porter & Stout, published posthumously. A great legacy. protzonbeer.co.uk/reviews/2025...

The paperback of A Pub for all Seasons comes out in early September, and if you were tempted in buying it Waterstone’s this week are doing a 25% off it offer, all you have to do is just enter the code SUMMER25 at the checkout though more details can be found here www.waterstones.com/book/a-pub-f...

My Obituary of Ken Don, inspirational Head Brewer at Young's, who helped save Maris Otter barley, @theguardian.com Also appeared online some time ago.

Really not long now until GBBF, and this is what I'll be doing: greatbritishbeerfestival.co.uk/discover/dis...

Experience summer in a glass, who’s excited to give this sessionable fruity lager a try?!?!

A beer can only has so much real estate. On it breweries must place text and graphics that will both entice and inform its customers. The trend is a minimalist, less-is-more approach to the “informing” piece—but has it gone too far?

I’ve started writing a weekly article - you could call it a column! - to promote my Telegraph 500 Pubs stuff. Should run online all summer. The first week’s effort is - what makes a perfect pub? Beer gardens next. Here it is: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comme...

March 2000 & my 1st visit to @adnamssouthwold.bsky.social & then head brewer Mike Powell-Evans showed me the sampling room. Adnams has enchanted me since the late 80s when i 1st visited Southwold, & as related in ‘A Pub For All Seasons’ a mate burnt his tache in the Lord Nelson (good beach book btw)

Never got on with Oasis, just a bit too water retentive I think.

The Dorset Beer Festival at the Hall & Woodhouse Brewery, in Blandford, last weekend has raised more than £10,000 for good causes, say organisers beertoday.co.uk/2025/06/20/d... #beer #beernews #beerfestival @petebrownbeer.bsky.social

Distillery with a view

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

Obituary of Martyn Cornell, scholar of beer and generous supporter of younger beer writers, who has left us all an unrivalled legacy. Seen here on the left with his brother Dave who runs Poppyland Brewery protzonbeer.co.uk/comments/202...

And if you were looking for yet another difference between our cans and Tommy Robinson, our cans are still in Hawksmoor.

I love this view of growers tending their hops.

Very sad and shocked to hear of the passing of Martyn Cornell today - only saw him last week, especially poignant with his Porter book due to be published

This is very bleak - sounds like it's lights out in Waterford for the foreseeable with core staff moving on www.linkedin.com/posts/neil-c...

Belfast. More than a song by Orbital. This week, Ewen Friers from And So I Watch You From Afar takes us around the pubs and bars of his hometown, and what a place it is. With stunning photos by our @totalcurtis.bsky.social www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/5/...

Were there too many breweries after all? In the first part of a broader look at the state of independent brewing in the UK, I've written a piece for @geterbrewed.bsky.social that looks at if the UK beer industry has his its saturation point. Read it here: www.geterbrewed.com/blog/2025/05...

Earlier this month, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale won a Gold Medal at the World Beer Cup — in the ESB category. For @vinepair.com, I talked to @fullersjohn.bsky.social, @atjbeer.bsky.social and WBC competition director Chris Williams to find out what happened. vinepair.com/articles/how...

Very sorry to hear of passing of Ken Don, former Youngs Head Brewer. Ken was a fine brewer& played a leading role in saving Maris Otter Barley when delisted by farmers. He also did a great job recreating the Youngs beers when they moved to Charles Wells in Bedford. Lovely convivial man. RIP

In this week's episode we are back at Timothy Taylor's for a tour, tasting and frank conversation about how cask ale has priced itself into a corner. youtu.be/UiR2m5XYWOg

Hey all I've written a piece for the wonderful @pelliclemag on the importance of cask, pubs and British brewing heritage in support of our Government petition to get Living Heritage status for cask ale. Give it a read, and SIGN THE PETITION! www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/4/...

From BBC on the UK/US trade deal. "It can't be understated how important this deal is". Given what I've read so far I would wholly agree.

Think you’ve got what it takes to brew a great beer? Now’s your chance to prove it with our 9th Birthday Home Brewing Competition! Enter now via The Malt Miller’s website at bit.ly/ElusiveHomeB...

If only there was a consumer organisation that supported and promoted cask ale, with around 140,000 members, this could be 100,000 signatures in a jiffy 🤔

Everywhere and nowhere atjpubs.substack.com/p/everywhere...

Quick trip to Edinburgh a week ago for a friends 50th, included a very nice visit to Porth of Leith distillery. Nice photo wall of the building phase which included a photo of the washbacks built into the steel frame.