5 yrs ago, heart of Covid, drove past this pub daily for 6 + weeks to Mt Vernon for Diana's cancer treatment. 5 yrs on she's signed off, it's her birthday, so here we are. Cheers to life!

As firework season continues I'm being soothed by Pet Sounds & this rich & velvety chocolate Stout from lovely Hebden Bridge. Bursting with coffee & chocolate flavours with a long smooth finish. Cheers! #BskyBeer

Do you like pub fireplaces? SAME. Here’s the pubby roundup of some of my faves in Dublin…not all just the usual suspects. #SpeirGorm www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...

My piece in the current Private Eye on Carlsberg Britvic's killing of breweries; Jennings saved. #BskyBeer

Fireworks just started going off and I'm stuck at home with a Doberman who keeps trying to jump into my arms. Less than ideal.

Classic FM Pet Classics on full volume. Sending empathy to all other pets (& owners) currently as distressed as Dudley. #Fireworks

Quitting GOP veteran: "Since Donald Trump descended that golden escalator in 2015, the Rep. party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes... It's waged a war on our institutions, the separation of powers, the rule of law, the very nature of truth itself."

A Scottish brewer is set to open one of the rarest beers in the world in order to create a unique modern version of the historic ale beertoday.co.uk/2025/11/03/a... #beer #beernews #arcticale #historicbeer

Hook Norton Brewery has raised money for Warwickshire Air Ambulance with a limited edition beer. One For The Road was brewed in memory of biker Jo Clarke by her four sons at the brewery, using hops they collected by motorbike. oxforddrinker.camra.org.uk/2025/10/beer...

Wonderful celebratory dinner with superb ales, Fuller's 180th Anniversay, atTheatre Bar, the beautiful listed Victoria, W2. With fellow beer writers @emmainch.bsky.social @petebrownbeer.bsky.social @philmellows.bsky.social @fullersjohn.bsky.social @willhawkes.bsky.social Glynn Davis & Ben McFarland.

Now November is here, it’s chillier and the nights are drawing in what is needed is cosy pubs - some suggestions from @philmellows.bsky.social inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

@rogerprotz.bsky.social Reading your Camra article on Jennings's revival, you mention they originated in Lorton. Well, the old brewery was split into the pink cottages here - Corner, Nutshell and Yan Yak (one oak in Cumbrian, I think). A little local detail to mull over with a Snecklifter!

The saddest chair in Yorkshire.

We DESERVED that, penalty denied, Bowen denied by the post - absolute rocket equaliser from Paqueta & own goal- & I deserve this! Half-time #WHUNEW 2-1 #COYI

I think I’ve fallen in love. With a pub. The Three Pigeons, Halifax. Art Deco, friendly staff, good beer. #Ossett #beer #ecfc #SemperFidelis #Halifax

My #BeeroftheMonth is @roostersbrewco.bsky.social award-winning seminal American-style IPA, Baby-Faced Assassin, brewed with 100% Citra hops. Intense juicy, tropical fruit aromas. 6.1%. Fab new-look artwork. #BskyBeer

Wow! Enjoying a fabulous beer which I'll post tomorrow as my #BeeroftheMonth. Happy Friday & Cheers to all! #BskyBeer

The third beer for our Barley Wine Festival is a little more local. @Torrside's Captain Scarlet & The Nectarons. A 10% Red Barley Wine brewed for Independent Salford Beer Festival 8, in 2023! #barleywinefestival #barleywine #barleywineislife #craftbeer #kegbeer #EscapeTheChaos @bskybeer.bsky.social

www.petitiononline.uk/save_the_dog... Please sign, the PubCo needs to know the strength of feeling!

Support Marble Arch v McGoff group whose proposed high-rise 17 storey tower alongside the Grade II listed landmark threatens its famous sloping mosaic floor, its vaulted ceiling, its very foundations Much loved cask ale icon, always there. Housing, yes, but not the destruction of heritage/community.

Lots of updates on our Antwerp Guide, including several new entries, following a couple of recent visits. Still lots to do on future visits but it's getting there! Direct link to the alphabetical list of pubs here: www.beerguideantwerp.com/publist

Long delayed £73M #GuinnessOpenGateBrewery Covent Garden to open December 11. Will include a microbrewery, beers tailored to London market, & museum tracing brewing history of the area. Old Brewers Yard was home to leading 18C Porter brewer Combe, later bought & closed by Watneys. #BskyBeer

Average train journey time from Derby to Tutbury & Hatton: 14mins

Andy and Rick will be in Exeter on Wednesday 5th November for a special tap takeover at @topshambrewery.bsky.social. Join them from 6pm for a casual chat about our recent collaboration beer, Pigeons Assemble NZ West Coast IPA, and check out some of our other beers pouring, too. 📷: @topshambrewery

Pub 11 and the last one for today. The Ship Inn Sewerby. Pennine Brewery Black Forest is absolutely tip top, and yes, I’ve been on pints for a while now despite saying I’d stick to halves. Anyway. Back to ours? I have beer and whisky. #BridPubCrawl

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FAO publicans who love cask ale: Joule's is looking for someone to operate The Coopers Tavern in Burton-upon-Trent. They emailed us to ask if we'd share this because, we gather, they really want someone who will be excited to run this particular pub. www.joulesbrewery.co.uk/vacancy/coop...

Guinness’s new brewery/venue in London finally has an opening date: 11th December. As revealed in @londonbeercity.bsky.social a year ago (!), head brewer will be Hollie Stephenson: imbibemagazine.com/hollie-steph...

Floof drain, Dubrovnik

Study of the #PriceofaPint in 155 countries: the priciest pint is £9.95 in Doha, the cheapest 68p in Madagascar. Blighty comes in 11th, average cost £5.50 though you'll pay more in London. You'll need a time machine back to 1986 to pay 68p for a pint in the UK! #BskyBeer

Greater Anglia rail passenger operator nationalised. Govt will rent carriages. Lucrative freight and rolling stock companies remain privatised. 3 Luxembourg-based companies control 87% of rolling stock, paid £1.3bn dividend in last 3 years which bears no UK tax. Gravy train rolls on.

Thought-provoking final paragraph here on the social cost of carbon. "From that perspective, the question is less, “Why are flights so cheap?” and more, “Who actually pays for them?” " www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don't wish to be churlish but #PerfectPubWalks could have afforded us a glimpse of this perfect pub's interior, heavily beamed, & a word of its history, hanging Judge Jeffries, the other 2 pubs interesting too.

Urban Pubs & Bars has announced the reopening of St John’s Tavern, Archway’s much-loved local and one of North London’s most iconic Victorian pubs beertoday.co.uk/2025/10/27/s... #pub #pubnews

The time to leave the dead bird is surely now

I had a fine meal in the Skirrid Inn on 2 Oct and they were serving local Wye Valley Butty Bach & HPA. Very nice too and busy for a Thursday night. Didn’t see any ghosts though

Final episode #PerfectPubWalks with Xander & guest, comedian Chris McCausland. Emotional insights, castles, mountains & finest pubs, the Skirrid Inn, Wales' oldest, the Anchor, the shadow of Tintern Abbey & the Boat, Penallt. Would've liked to see the interiors & know which beers they were drinking

Ordinarily I'm a mid week stop in but a Monday evening sojourn in beautiful Knaresborough is vindicated. Blind Jacks has a brace of Two by Two on, a superb brewery (+ Bass available)

We can only hope that the pub will be faithfully restored and one day an experienced publican will be given the chance to take it on. I fail to see how Zaks will be a draw. Thank you as ever for all the support at least the pub is still here! GYBC wanted it gone.

Restoration underway of Iron Duke, Gt Yarmouth, saved/listed thanks @sovenna.bsky.social SaveDuke. Sad the art deco icon will be run by Zaks serving "American themed BBQ ribs burgers hot dogs." Decision by a narrow cabal at the Council, no publicans allowed to pitch, & travesty "public consultation"

The White House East Wing demolition: Brought to you by our sponsors—Amazon, Apple, Caterpillar, Coinbase, Comcast, Hard Rock, Gemini Tyler, Google, HP, Lockheed Martin, Meta, Microsoft, NextEra, Palantir, T-Mobile & Union Pacific w special thanks to Bezos, Zuckerberg, Cook and the Winklevoss twins.

Had my first green hopped beer of the season last night, from @burningskybeer.bsky.social and it got me thinking atjpubs.substack.com/p/green-is-g...

Latest edition of CAMRA Rochdale Oldham.and Bury's More Beer Magazine is here: indd.adobe.com/view/de1b848...

Brilliant turnout of South Herts @camraofficial.bsky.social members old & new, greeting those who joined @stalbansbf.bsky.social. Venue: the wonderful Mermaid. Fine pint of @adnamssouthwold.bsky.social Old Ale. #BskyBeer

Tring Brewery have launched an on-site taproom and courtyard space — The Piggeries taproom — at their Dunsley Farm site in west Hertfordshire beertoday.co.uk/2025/10/21/t... #brewery #brewerynews #beer #beernews #taproom

The wait is over! 🎉 Our NEW Thornbridge & Co venue, @Fargatesheff is officially open 🍻 🥳 Pop in over the next few days and weeks for a huge selection of Thornbridge beers and hand crafted pizzas! #sheffield

Apologies in advance for an early Xmas image, but I'd love to hear if anyone is lucky enough to find this beautiful award-winning amber Barley Wine, vanishingly rare on cask, selling out at the likes of Dudley Winter Ales Festival. #BskyBeer

Pigs’ breakfast. It’s getting harder and harder to forage fresh food for them in the garden and on the common.

And not within earshot of a firework boom...

Oh great. Firework season well underway with daily displays for Diwali, kicking off early evening & carrying on post 11pm. Why do they have to be so thunderously loud? Dudley barking out of his skin, beyond consolation.