There more, but I'm on another deadline, so I'll just drop the link and mention it's FREE—no paywall on this one:

Having been to Italy a few times before, I was kinda embarrassed when I recently realized there are hand pumps scattered all over the country. Making it back there this summer, I made sure to do a little investigating and wrote about it on the blog. www.casketbeer.com/home/2025/9/...

Landlord in Germany! There is a god!

G for Germany!

Up before dawn again for the first time in ages. It's still shit.

🫶Thank you!🫶 As we prepare to announce #strike dates for the Malvern House teachers, we want to thank everyone who helped get us over the £1000 mark! #solidarity Not donated yet? ➡️ actionnetwork.org/fu...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Well that was a surprise: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You show up for the weekly beer news but did you know about True Black Brandywine? Hmm… just as I expected. Time for a little “TNT!” - and the rest of “The Delightful Yet Pensively Penultimate Beery News Notes On A Summer’s Thursday For 2025”:

100% #union membership 100% turnout 100% vote to #strike The teachers are Malvern House are leading the charge to #MakeTEFLaCareer. Show them you've got their back by donating to their hardship fund: 🔗 shorturl.at/EAI3S#union

Hops, bleedin' thousand of them.

Hop bines going in to a picker

Long Challenger hop cones

Cascade. Apparently climate change is improving the flavour of UK grown cascade.

Eureka, a high alpha hop (hoping for 18 to 20 percent!)

Solero

East Kent Golding

Just signed up for this. Been meaning to update my site's theme for a while now. Seemed like the perfect opportunity.

How San Miguel closed Banks's brewery :-( edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

Plenty of news this week, plenty of challenges facing the brewing trade but also plenty… well some… fine, a few rays of sunshine… maybe… well, whatever they are here they are!

Bleedin' hop got me again on the way out.

I'm in for a real treat at my non-beer drinking brothers BBQ! Will it be Doombar or the other one?

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with quite a bit of in-the-weeds geeky stuff about science, scoring and brewery financing. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/08/news...

Some thoughts on research into beer by non-brewing scientists: edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/08/im-f...

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead (Jeremy Corbyn) #refugeeswelcome

Nice view from the office today.

And here's a link for those who, for some perverse reason, are not subscribed: open.substack.com/pub/boakandb...

Happy to see the Guardian has an obituary for Martyn Cornell out today. He deserved that. Even if it does feel bitter-sweet to read it. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...

Sadly we've had to deal with many cases where bosses thought they could ignore maternity law. So with Maternity Action we're offering free training on maternity rights. 🗓️ August 19th 3-6pm 📍 May Day Rooms, London and online Join us and invite your workmates. www.eventbrite.com/e/maternity-...

Grandmother surely? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On my last train. Will I manage to get off at Woking or will the ooerbier win?

Basingstoke: "It’s as if the sun will never shine again 🌧️"

John Wayne was a nazi!

Hmmm...MDC or BJJ on Monday evening? 🤔

OK, didn't expect that: the person drumming for Wet Leg is wearing a 1981 Farnham Beerex t-shirt. #RealAle

Brewdog's Martin Dickie now growing cannabis: www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/...

I think I may be in the wrong job.

Back on the OP at the ODG

Just seen Kif Kif Le Batteur (Keith Dobson) ex-Here & Now has died :-( Putting Floating Anarchy on next...

🚨Day of Action!🚨 Sheela is claiming constructive dismissal from Escape Campus. Let the bosses at Escape know you’ve got her back! 🗓️ Today! ⏰ All day! 📨 Email CEO Raff Misceor ⬇️ Suggested email

The CIBD Sustainability in Brewing Conference 2025: edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

Concentración en Madrid en apoyo a las seis de la Suiza, del Sindicato CNT, encarceladas por su acción sindical.

Whilst some of the faithful are engaging in moral turpitude I'm drinking in the ways of righteousness!

¡Las 6 de la Suiza en prisión! www.iclcit.org/es/las-6-de-... 6 of la Suiza in jail! www.iclcit.org/6-of-la-suiz...

Levelling up as a #PubMan edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/07/leve...

One for @larsga.bsky.social

Charlie Bamforth talking about Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Day two of the CIBD Sustainability in Brewing Conference

Hop goddess Klara