Women speak out about sexism in the beer industry www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/09/wome... @teamdb.bsky.social

BLOG POST: How Oktoberfest is becoming a thing in Britain – and is no longer just about silly plastic hats and bunting. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/09/okto...

Burton Union at work at Marston’s in September 2019

I went to Oktoberfest in 2012 on assignment for the Sunday Times Travel Magazine - here are some of my snaps

I went to Oktoberfest in 2012 on assignment for the Sunday Times Travel Magazine - here are some of my snaps

I mostly write about beer, so I’m probably not in immediate danger of the kinds of defenestrations we saw the Trump administration commit this week. Unless, I suppose, the kind of commentary I write below gets into the wrong hands. In any case, it feels personal.

A tale of two Festbiers @teamutopian.bsky.social Arcadia - on the left, the Fest-Märzen is reminiscent of malt loaf with a subtle bitterness in the finish, while Festbier Helles is bready and lightly herbal with a dry finish that scrubs the palate clean for another swig, both delicious

My thoughts on young people and cask beer wb.camra.org.uk/2025/09/15/m...

Maybe read one of those SOON TO BE BANNED BOOKS....🤔🤔

Oktoberfest starts @teamutopian.bsky.social Exeter bar Arcadia with the tapping of a pitch-lined wooden barrel of Fest Märzen - Prost!

May I humbly offer up something for your Friday afternoon reading in the pub atjpubs.substack.com/p/observatio...

May I humbly offer up something for your Friday afternoon reading in the pub atjpubs.substack.com/p/observatio...

Today’s beer of the week in the @dailystar.co.uk is this glorious best bitter from Windsor & Eton and given it is Cask Beer Week you might want to have it in the pub too

Excellent tasting of three vintages of St Austell brewery’s Tribute Extras tonight, rich and melodic, favoured with flavour and dynamic with the harmony that only the best hops and malt and brewing practices can bring

Trying to describe fresh hop beers is hard because rather than just reaching for another adjective, we grope toward different realms of experience. Drinking a very one is to experience synesthesia and encounter the taste of iridescent green.

Oktoberfest is nearly upon us and in today’s @dailystar.co.uk I’ve brought together a First XI of Brit breweries making superb Festbiers including @lostandgrounded.bsky.social @teamutopian.bsky.social @durationbeer.bsky.social @pilotbeer.co.uk @pillarsbrewery.bsky.social & @verdantbrew.bsky.social

Oktoberfest is nearly upon us and in today’s @dailystar.co.uk I’ve brought together a First XI of Brit breweries making superb Festbiers including @lostandgrounded.bsky.social @teamutopian.bsky.social @durationbeer.bsky.social @pilotbeer.co.uk @pillarsbrewery.bsky.social & @verdantbrew.bsky.social

We have some great news to share. @geterbrewed.bsky.social, long-time Pro-Patreon supporters, have come on board as Pellicle's main sponsor 🎉 AND, as if that wasn't exciting enough, we would love you to welcome @clairembullen.bsky.social to the family as we expand into a team of four once more!

Nice thing to do on a Sunday morning - talk and reading from A Pub For Seasons plus signing copies afterwards, in Appledore at the Appledore Book Festival, and after it was to the pub we went

Nice day in Totnes researching pubs - i didn’t go into this one (I was in the Bay Horse opposite studying PU), but it brought back memories as according to my journal of the time it was where my then girlfriend and I stayed in 1987 when we went to Totnes on my Kawasaki GT 550 for the weekend

New @londonbeercity.bsky.social today, featuring: - The London Brewers Alliance festival at Bird House - what’s it like being a small brewery in London today? - V interesting pub reopenings, eg Florist in E2 - The original Firkin pubs, 46 years on! Sign up here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

First time appearance of a Grisette as my beer of the week in today’s @dailystar.co.uk a gorgeous glass of the generous from @sobremesadrinks.bsky.social

Turn left at the Red Lion atjpubs.substack.com/p/turn-left-...

I could share a story on Snoop Dogg’s latest partnership for his cannabis drinks. Or advice from a speaker who’ll be talking at the db conference next month. I could even lament how CAMRA is struggling. But all I want to really say is: “I had a corned beef sandwich just now and it was magic.”

Turn left at the Red Lion atjpubs.substack.com/p/turn-left-...

Usually behind a paywall but for some reason it wasn’t - zoigl www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...

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

The places of beer - Orval 2010

Just thought I’d say…

The places of beer - Jenlain packaging line 2005

Just thought I’d say…

The places of beer - investigating Gose in Leipzig late 2010

Beer of the week in today’s @dailystar.co.uk? Why it’s this gorgeous little Neon-lit number from @elusivebrewing.com

Another brewery pic as I sort out photos, this time it’s Ridley’s brewery in 2005 on a @britbeerwriters.bsky.social trip that also included Mauldon’s and St Peter’s - I seem to recall Dave Wickett of Kelham Island coming, and Ridley’s were brewing Pale Rider for him then

Czech brewers are making low-alcohol beers that are complex, rich, and fun to drink, offering a blueprint for other brewers to do the same.

So good to see Jennings, the much-loved Cumbrian brewery, back in operation after being cruelly axed by Carlsberg. Classic ales in fine form, brewing to capacity, may have to expand. Article to follow @camraofficial.bsky.social Beer Magazine. #BskyBeer

Good reporting here manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Going through archives - god I miss this beer

Music affects taste — including when we drink. For @vinepair.com, I talked to @petebrownbeer.bsky.social about his new book, “Tasting Notes: The Science and Art of Pairing Beer and Music,” among others, about how hearing influences our other senses. vinepair.com/articles/mus...

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

Interesting beer price list (I believe from a wholesaler of the time) dating back almost 50 years to 1976. It's good to see some familiar names! @atjbeer.bsky.social @petebrownbeer.bsky.social @rogerprotz.bsky.social @totalcurtis.bsky.social @drinksmaven.bsky.social @beesononbooze.bsky.social

Just arrived and out next month the paperback version of A Pub For All Seasons with its lovely reviews

A lovely beer 🍻

Just arrived and out next month the paperback version of A Pub For All Seasons with its lovely reviews

Today’s beer of the week in the @dailystar.co.uk is this gorgeous Pilsner from @indierabble.bsky.social

In north Devon September 14 and at a loss at what to do before the pubs open - why not come along to the Appledore Book Festival where I’ll be talking about A Pub For All Seasons and generally celebrating autumn and beer - details here appledorebookfestival.littleboxoffice.com/events/122110

Oh hello

stalbansbf.org.uk/events/st-al... St Albans Beer Festival, one of CAMRA's major events, 23 to 27 September. Thursday 25 September join me for the launch with beer tasting of my new book Ale City: St Albans Beer History and Remarkable Pubs. And don't miss the festival -- great beers from far and wide

England’s 500 Best Pubs now exists in print form, courtesy of today’s Telegraph Magazine. It’s an edited version, chopped up into sections (best beer, most historic etc) and nicely illustrated.

No shadow of a doubt but this pint of Doppelbock from @teamutopian.bsky.social at Arcadia soon vanished