PLEASE REPOST: a couple of bar staff urgently needed for shifts in Stratford tomorrow - it's a West Ham home game and I've had staff drop out so you can borderline name your price

My three @britbeerwriters.bsky.social nominated pieces: ‘The pub was by a school and Martha and her comrades had children that would have to walk past that sign every day’ open.substack.com/pub/davidjes...

Question: why do books still come out first on hardback? I hate hardback

As always an honour to be nominated. As last year’s chair of judges, I can tell you it’s very hard work. Thankless, well apart from this thanks that is. Thanks

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

This week’s beery new notes were brought to you by many such as: @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social @boakandbailey.bsky.social @atjbeer.bsky.social @pelliclemag.com @davidjesudason.bsky.social @beervana.bsky.social @merryn02.bsky.social @drinksmaven.bsky.social @thebeernut.bsky.social and FAKE WINE!!!!

90s people. Anyone remember Big City with Paul Ross? Can you remember the name of his co-presenter here as I’d love to interview her about her piece on Southall?

My Lutonian brothers 😍

Get yourself to the @theshirkersrest.bsky.social where Ben has barrel—aged Three Acre Bonfire Beer for 12 months. As you can tell by the photo I had a few and was enamoured by its calvados-like finish

so good, ALL SO GOOD AND SO CORRECT and my god I feel vindicated

As well as this I have a feature coming up that I’m so pumped to share. It’s a great platform and please support it here www.patreon.com/c/pelliclema...

This is worth a read even if you don't live in the UK, a cultural insight into our public bars. #ItsYourRound

‘I regret to inform you that your train has been cancelled due to a coconut on the line’

I was born a curmudgeon. Thanks as always to @pelliclemag.com for supporting my work

I regret to tell you that an influencer has found the Indian YMCA in Fitzrovia

@paulbajoria.bsky.social Hi Paul. Hope this finds you well. Could you follow me so I could message you privately about an article I'm working on?

I sent out my last ever j'adore le plonk on Friday. In memoriam I've turned it into a zine with the help of my friends @helenannesmith.bsky.social Otto Taylor-Rickard and @gergemanson.bsky.social I think we've made something very beautiful - pre order's are now live! www.burumcollective.com/jlp

1/ Ridiculous controversy of the moment: cookery writer Yasmin Khan wrote a vegetarian cookbook called 'Sabzi', only to find the publisher being sued by a Cornwall-based deli chain of the same name, because the deli owner somehow trademarked this very common word (and logo).

‘There’s something icky about boasting about free hauls online – as was shown when Conor McGregor’s brewery Forged sent out crates of Irish stout, pint glasses and baseball caps’ camra.org.uk/articles/2641

Is Pepsi ok?

Here we go

On my way to @theshirkersrest.bsky.social to have a pint of Boddington’s. Will I be quick enough to get a free flake?

And here are the footnotes for Patreon supporters, whose encouragement we very much appreciate, with additional thoughts on trends and cycles. www.patreon.com/posts/142571...

Banked beers v southern unsparkled

😍 (Would’ve been a pint but I have to moderate these days)

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Good piece this and it even inspired how desi pubs looked, as I wrote a few years ago open.substack.com/pub/davidjes...

Had a truly life affirming, cathartic & beautiful time talking to John for this, one that made it clear he’d handle the experiences of all who spoke to him with empathy, wit & profound care. It is a really special book by an extraordinary writer & human so preorder the net curtains out of it, please

Dear predictive text: garam masala is garam masala not ‘garage massive’

I must have missed the underrepresented middle-aged white man on his 38 Question Time appearances

My daughter just taught me the word ‘slay’ and I said do ‘I slay at cooking?’ The look she gave me

Good afternoon from @theshirkersrest.bsky.social where #CrispSandwichDay is in full swing!

Disappointing good tasting red apple that’s fluffy. Bit like a poorly kept Harvey’s Best

If you’re looking for an early Christmas present I have a few left I could sign. Please RT

Look! Big Ben has the same PR team as Brewdog Waterloo

Plus the garden! HT @thornbridgedom.bsky.social

‘I keep telling you: purple just isn’t my colour!’

Today I cycled from Lille to Gent and visited THAT Dok taproom. Enjoyed it but the best part of the trip is being enthralled by @regretteruane.bsky.social’s Birding. Superb writing: stirring imagery mixed with the melancholy of failing lives

Anyone been to this Yorkshire gem?

You’ve really got to support this kind of reporting

I used to work at the Turf Tavern in central Oxford while I was an undergrad. We claimed to be the pub at which Bill Clinton 'did not inhale' and Bob Hawke knocked back a yard of ale in record time, and countless historical figures frequented. Let's just say the evidence was...sketchy, at best.

They had a pint of bitter, obvs

"yeah no it actually was this Stratford, not upon Avon. yeah he loved it, absolutely mad for a tequila rose, that's what he was banging on about in Macbeth"

Calling @boakandbailey.bsky.social & @agoodbeerblog.bsky.social

I know we’re living in the post-truth era but messaging me asking ‘what are zig and zag like?’ 🤣

My Instagram proves that you can work for decades as a journalist bringing under-represented voices to a wider audience but what people are really interested in is two photoshopped Sumo wrestlers outside a pub

The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge

Listen to bar staff

Co-op playing (I Wanna Give You) Devotion by Nomad. That’s the first record I bought. 😭

Boomer energy on bluesky a lot like the stuff we get in the bar: Walk in, look confused, get shirty when a woman tries to help, don't listen, order the wrong thing, moan, tell us we must be making a fortune, we say we're really not, they go back to their massive house and slag us off on facebook