This from Durham Following Storm Dave hitting the North East in the early hours of Sunday morning, damage has been caused within the venue – therefore there will be no spectators permitted into the ground until further notice…..cont

There are doubtless more comprehensive histories, but this is the most definitive story on the current position of union brewing in the UK and beyond. Took me over a year to pull together, so do give it a couple of minutes of your time today 🤣

I meet extraordinary people in this job. Thank you to Inka and Ralph Orth for sharing their daughter Johanna’s passion with me with such generosity and grace www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

And there's the second part of the piece I had written about beer in Czechia. It's a bit of an Easter meditation, I suppose. I think it's about as well as I've ever done. saintjohnswort.ca/adventures-i...

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Pubs where people reserve the dart board by writing on the blackboard. Proper.

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of our weekly round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, including evidence that we're being haunted by the ghost of BrewDog. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2026/04/news...

So. #ISBFXI IS GO! The first post (updated). Primarily around sponsoring. What there is to sponsor. And the difference it makes. The difference YOU can make. Please read (again) Please SHARE. ❤️ The #ISBFFamily Getting Involved (in a big way) With #ISBFXI — ISBFX share.google/CCFkJbY93Dso...

Alice Sollier (née Mathieu-Dubois) French doctor. 1887 1st Black French woman to qualify as medical doctor. 1st French female physician to be director of private healthcare facility. 1 of 72 women whose names proposed to be added to #EifffelTower b. #OTD 3 Apr 1861 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_S...

I never really planned for this to be a series, but here are some of the beers served at Oktoberfest in the 1960s. Still, a greater variety than today. dafteejit.com/2026/04/some... #beerhistory #oktoberfest

Here is a wonderful lunch with the FT with Dame Maggie from a few months ago as a Good Friday treat. as.ft.com/r/7aa2d65e-c...

Two dartboard reviews: Bar Desorden in Spain fredcook.co.uk/2026/04/02/B... And Industry bar and kitchen on Gloucester road: fredcook.co.uk/2026/04/01/I...

📢 Guild Members - don’t miss your chance to register for our exclusive event with Charles Faram 🙌 Quick, RSVP - there’s only 20 places. Go, go, go! 🏃

Afternoon re-share - I HAVE TIDIED UP THE LINKS. Well, some of them...

Just been informed that Thornbridge's new London pub, the White Swan in Fetter Lane, opens at noon tomorrow. Guess I know where I'll be going on my way home from tomorrow's match. @beerguidelondon.bsky.social

Something good to start the month: writing that will make you want to abandon your plans for the day and spend it cooking. And as a special treat, @nigella.bsky.social’s first column is free to read www.ft.com/content/4819...

This may be interesting to some for #foodhistory #beerhistory: Schmankerl Time Machine. Digitized historic menus of Munich restaurants, beer halls and Oktoberfest tents from 1855 until the 1980s. dhvlab.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/schmankerlti...

I'll never consider anything to be a replacement for Underdog, but a second outlet for the operators of Dudleys - to be called Bar Anam - is going to open in its space. Dudleys is a well run pub with a reasonable craft selection and decent food, so it's far from the worst we could get using that pub

Applications are now open for our Plants for Communities initiative 🌺 This scheme gives local groups the chance to receive free plants grown by our amazing Hyde Park Nursery team in July 🪻 Find out more, by reading on below 🔽

I've now been told by five different people who have read this that it is, in fact, excellent. This is reassuring because you do tend to lose perspective when you've been rewriting and editing the same 10 stories for 18 months.

An important read on International Transgender Day of Visibility. For “Irene Joy” read “Jonathan”... for “female” read “male”. Corrected on the 7th Jan. 1958 by me J.E. Bell, Supt. Registrar on production of a statutory declaration made by J.R. Ferguson, mother. More: wartimeni.com/profile/air-...

New, to me at least, from a Big Tesco although looking at the bbf dates maybe they've been around a while ...

Quick flying visit to Glasgow for a work thing today; may get to sneak out for a brief solo pint tonight, but it looks like pretty slim pickings near where I'm staying, close to Rotunda Square...have a single suggestion for something walkable, but open to other ideas.

Alexanderplatz, 1935 © Landesarchiv Berlin

Next month marks the 85th anniversary of the Belfast Blitz. If you've got a question you've always wanted to ask or a story you need to tell, get in touch.

Guildford manchets may have been influenced by pastries such as croissants served at breakfast in other European countries. Delicious served with a cup of coffee! You can find the recipe at piespuddingsandpottages.com/recipe-post/... #britishfood #foodhistory #recipe #lpastries #medieval

We want to get some postcards for our upcoming book printed up to hand out at conferences (does our publisher do this kind of thing? lol, no) - does anyone have a local Irish business they might recommend?

Every sentence brings something new to the madness. Stick it on CEEFAX.

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round-up of good writing about beer and pubs with notes on the popularity of Bass, a very special barley wine, and the ever-controversial topic of kids in pubs. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2026/03/news...

Alright, I’m about to set out on my third trip to Italy so far this year, for my first time back at Birrificio Italiano since early 2008. Looking forward to meeting up with @atjbeer.bsky.social, @pintsandpanels.bsky.social and a bunch of other great beer people domani e lunedì.

Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights in giftlinks thread. Highlinks. Giftlights. Anyway, 300 clicks then they're gone. Or you can buy a lovely paper, lasts all week. Or you can subscribe to FT Edit which at £5 a month is a bargain. www.ft.com/ft-edit

Finally got around to writing up our trip to Köln (and Dusseldorf)... www.lisagrimm.com/2026/03/27/w...

Clear your schedule, because for the #JapaneseGP edition of Grand Prix Gastronomy, you should be making tonkotsu ramen. The 24-hour simmer period is optional… but HIGHLY recommended. #f1 #japanesecuisine #ramen grandprixgastronomy.substack.com/p/homemade-t...

A beautiful, surprisingly uplifting Lunch with the FT by @edwardluce.bsky.social with Bryan Stevenson, a death row lawyer: as.ft.com/r/553d0ec9-6...

Had to try the latest hype brewery following upcoming beer writer @rogerprotz.bsky.social's lovely piece in @pelliclemag.com. Timely delivery and a great range of beers 🍻

Anspach & Hobday is now 12 and here’s its celebratory Big Top Bitter, which is my beer of the week in today’s @dailystar.co.uk

I had a couple of beers at everyone's favourite new Dublin hotel, The Hoxton: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/03/acco...

Any advice on orgs that help families experiencing deaths of adult children, please. (Not mine - but in the family)

Super-psyched to share my inaugural piece for @camraofficial.bsky.social ‘s BEER magazine on the blossoming cask beer scene in the US ❤️🍻 Huge thanks to all who contributed & cheers to cask! d1rhhiro4gd9il.cloudfront.net/uploads/2026...

I had the best Harvey’s Sussex Best of my life yesterday at the New Inn, Hadlow Down, Sussex. Thought some of you might find this info useful

Back on the pub blog worktab with Lucky's: www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide... #SpeirGorm

Here it is. Thursday. The last one of March. Has the ground thawed yet? Where are those tulips I planted? Where’s the rhubarb?!? C’mon. Hurry up. Meantime, here’s the news.

The organisers - like in the curry house awards - have been aggressively calling up those who have been shortlisted asking for £300 or £3k a table. Don’t indulge these shills especially if you work in DEI

Staying on the Oktoberfest theme, I wrote about the scandal of the Oktoberfest's first "giant tent" in 1898, and how it unfolded: dafteejit.com/2026/03/the-... #beerhistory #oktoberfest

About bloody time BUT did you know that it costs around TWO THOUSAND POUNDS for an overseas doctor to requalify to work in the NHS? Even if they're an asylum seeker with little more than the clothes they stand up in and ten quid a week from the government... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Its @constructionarium.bsky.social time again! Every year we come with our third year students to build cut down versions of classic structures. This year: Canary Wharf and North Greenwich stations, Millau Viaduct & Kingsgate bridge. Great progress on all projects today, and no rain!

What terrible news.

On Wed, March 25 (one day only), we’re opening at 10AM for coffee, pfiffs, and a quiet taproom to get a few things done. ☕🍺 Espresso drinks by Ceramic Coffee Roasters and Double Umlauts on all pfiffs of Core 5 beers until 2pm. What the heck is a pfiff? A .2L pour, common in Austria and Bavaria.

'At The Linen House in Lisburn, Rachel got trapped in a Premier Inn phone system. Two AI systems talked past each other, neither able to help the other. Rachel said "Oh, dear" four times. The virtual receptionist kept apologising. Nobody got a pint price.'

I've blogged about beers at late 19th/early 20th century Oktoberfest many years ago. I've now been able to find complete lists of breweries for the years 1895 and 1896, which shows how much more diverse the beer choice was back then: dafteejit.com/2026/03/beer... #beerhistory #oktoberfest