This week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads is now up, with all sorts of great stuff, including several responses to one of our own posts from earlier in the week. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...

Have you ever been to Bonn? My latest blog post/newsletter is up now. www.katiematherwrites.com/the-gulp/bonn

Today’s beer of the week in the @dailystar.co.uk is from a new brewery to me, a delicious dry stout from @tunbrewing.com and if you look carefully the green tiled frontage on the old pub in the distance is a sign it was once a Barclay’s house

Von 1980 bis 1991 existierte der Türkische Basar auf den Gleisen der U2. Es war für viele der deutschtürkischen Kiezbewohner "ein Ort der Gemeinsamkeit", erzählt mir eine Zeitzeugin für @rbb24.de. Besonders bleiben die Konzerte, Video- und Musikkassetten in Erinnerung 🎵🎸

Back with a new pub this week; it has a ghost story, but does it feel spooky? We investigate The Portobello Bar: #SpeirGorm www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...

📣 Work with us! We're hiring a Visitor Services Assistant (Maternity Cover) to work 5 days per week based onsite at the Library. The role is a six months fixed term contract, with a possibility of extension, starting in November 2025. Find out more:

Not many points for guessing the London pub…

Now pouring as they say. Several weeks of hard work and now we are ready

Ooh, look.... 👀 The Christmas Day 2025 & New Year's Day 2026 parkrun UK and parkrun Ireland special events lists are up! www.parkrun.org.uk/special-even... www.parkrun.ie/special-even... #LoveParkrun

Well, things came to be which were not certain. The unknown became the known - or will be when the covers are lifted later. Time is a’ticking. That’s never as clear as the dawn when that zap of frost hits. And the Yankees lost. So it’s still a happy day. I can buy frikkin canned tomatoes all winter.

A new blog post, and a small departure from my usual obsession to highlight a wonderful piece of writing on pubs and beer that I believe was lost until now ...

I’ve written for @pelliclemag.com about the Dog and Bell, a unique pub whose evolution over the past 40 years nevertheless illustrates the story of modern London pubs. It’s here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

I’ve never known anyone to be so excited about… Lichtenberg

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Let’s not forget what Handsworth was like open.substack.com/pub/davidjes...

Is there an award for worst looking pints ever pulled? Dulles Airport bar has to be in the running #BSkyBeer #Brewery must be heartbroken

In the best spirit of old-school blogging, I present my "rebuttal" of @boakandbailey.bsky.social's fine polemic on Belgian beer published this morning.

BLOG POST: "...we recognise the problem in tourists demanding that the places they visit stay exactly the same, while expecting bars at home to do the opposite... But Belgium really does feel different, for a few reasons..." 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/10/we-d...

This is an excellent piece - it really is. It reminded me too that I've been hoarding information on the seasonal migration of Irish hop pickers into England in the 19th century that I really need to write up ...

Did anyone ever tell you about the scented westerns?

Anyone who has written cookery books (or published recipes where people can comment) will now be nodding furiously and saying uh huh, and 'that's a very measured response'

You'll be delighted to hear that I've finally got around to putting some back copies of @londonbeercity.bsky.social on my website. Here's March: www.willhawkes.net/blog/2025/ma...

Fyne Ales, the independent Scottish brewery based on a farm at the head of Loch Fyne, has launched a new nitro stout, Rook beertoday.co.uk/2025/10/06/f... #beer #beernews #stout #nitrostout @fyneales.bsky.social

📣 Work with us! We're hiring a Visitor Services Assistant (Maternity Cover) to work 5 days per week based onsite at the Library. The role is a six months fixed term contract, with a possibility of extension, starting in November 2025. Find out more: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/s...

My dad has turned up this photo from a visit "many years ago" to the Forth Bridge. I think it's taken from what he calls the howff, just below track level, used by the maintenance workers. I guess when you're engaged in a proverbially endless task, you need a wee cup of tea once in a while.

Sunflower in Belfast, great little corner pub with 1 handpump serving local Boundary Pale Ale on our afternoon visit. Yard outside with pizza van. Came back in the evening for the Manouche gypsy swing band followed by folk club upstairs.

Das Deutsche Rote Kreuz (DRK) bittet die Menschen in Berlin und Brandenburg sowie Sachsen, Blut zu spenden – auch in den Herbstferien. Das DRK appelliert vor allem an Erstspender ab 18 Jahren oder mittleren Alters.

Staying in to avoid the rain? Good day to watch my new Anhalter Bhf. video - so far it’s one of my most popular long-form videos! youtu.be/7jfiTW6qRKQ

MORNING! Here's this week's round up of interesting writing about beer and pubs, this time with a few new-to-us voices. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...

Oktoberfestbier at Oktoberfest: does the difference between the different brands even matter? dafteejit.com/2025/10/okto...

Asahi Remains Shutdown Due to Cyber Attack Most of Asahi Group’s 30 production facilities in Japan have been completely shut down since Monday after a cyber attack disabled its ordering and delivery system.

Brewdog announces job cuts after posting £37m loss

Another Dublin pub round-up....we stay seasonal with this one. 100% serious about doing the ghostlore PhD, btw...just need a big cash windfall first. #SpeirGorm www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...

Got Friday night tickets for Pyvofest 2025 at Bradford Ukrainian Club. A friendly community driven beer festival with Eastern European beers and food. Будьмо! 🍻

Beers from Düsseldorf and Cologne that aren't Alt or Kölsch, is the daft task I set myself in today's blog post: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/10/alt-...

To mark the 35th anniversary of German Unity, we've got a selection of books by amazing German writers translated into English up for grabs. All you have to do to have a chance of winning these 7 books is answer 5 questions correctly! uk.diplo.de/uk-en/german...

The Globe Hotel on Bernard Street dated back to at least 1846. The area around the hotel changed a lot over the years through slum clearances and wartime bombing, but the hotel survived it all. It finally closed down in 1988 and the Grade II listed building is now apartments.

do you need a nice thing today? may i recommend agnes and sherman

Anyone know of a livestock Farmer local to Stockport who might be interested in a relatively small amount of spent grain on the regular, please do put them in touch. Cheers!

I've reviewed the PerfectDraft Pro. Is it as good as a pint in the pub, though? 🧐 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d4e4c1e...

A reminder if you want to have a look at a list of all Northern Ireland's breweries and where they are on a map, it's right here 🍻 quareswally.com/northern-ire...

BLOG POST: We assembled a blind-tasting panel (some of our mates) to test four Belgian or Belgian-style wheat beers. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/09/witb...

Do you know how to eat a tostada siberia? Permit me to help if you don’t. My latest for @texasmonthly.bsky.social

If you're in Chicago and not really active on Reddit, here's a thread you might enjoy where people are listing their favorite sandwich shops. Lots of good places to check out here. www.reddit.com/r/chicagofoo...

With being in England last week I didn't get to attend the annual Zollpackhof Oktoberfest or go to the Wies'n in Munich. I'm making up for it by having a wee Augustiner Festbier at Augustiner am Gendarmenmarkt.

Off on the Bristol tour de Bass today, first stop Avon packet 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺

GOOD MORNING! Pubs are struggling. The 2026 Good Beer Guide is "a triumph". Craft beer is still growing in India. Gen Z really isn't drinking. BrewDog beers have lost their edge. Nobody really knows which is the oldest pub in London. New Boddies is "drinkable". 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/09/news...

Looking for a visual map of all things Irish Stout on the Isle! Who is drinking what in Ireland, where are the lines between Guinness, Murphys, Beamish or O'Hara? Plus all the "craft" offerings?

Cleanliness is next to godliness apparently but I much more prefer to be Godless, especially when it’s this gorgeous Helles from @redwillowbrewery.bsky.social which is my beer of the week in today’s @dailystar.co.uk