Make this pizza viral!!

Pizza!

🚩 When you go to the taproom and see this 🚩

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...

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

Today’s scam

If you're seeing a lot of people complaining about awards where they've been nominated but have to pay £300+ a ticket to attend then it's like this www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-curry-...

Replying ‘B O Y S’ to a BBC News story is not only completely prejudiced but also not how I want MPs to spend their time. Taxfunded terfism

And whenever I failed to understand Space Odyssey 2001’s existential bits I downed a whiskey. Especially the latter scenes 🤣

Spent all day moving stuff into the loft with a Space Odyssey 2001 hangover

My theory as to what the black monolith is … it’s a piece of tech that sucks you into a time vortex, robbing you of your life expectancy. An iPhone? A PlayStation? A Space Odyssey DVD?

Bit tired, deadlines and house stuff to sort. So obviously I’ve started re-watching Space Odyssey 2001 🤣

This beer is the beer that made me want to brew bitter, so many years ago now. At a time when we were (well me i guess) obsessed with US hops I had a pint of this in Old Red Cow in Spitalfields & couldn’t stop thinking about it. Now my best selling beer is a bitter and we buy more Kent hops than US.

'It tastes great! (honestly): The bizarre obsession with tearing down alcohol free beer in order to sell it' | Ben Gibbs via @davidjesudason.bsky.social soberboozersclub.substack.com/p/it-tastes-...

This is also very good from Ben. 'AF beer is still being sold through an apologetic framing. It’s a strange strategy. Not only because it’s creatively lazy, it’s structurally flawed' soberboozersclub.substack.com/p/it-tastes-...

If - like me - you missed that Batham's are brewing AF then this is urgent reading. Worth RTing and following Ben! soberboozersclub.substack.com/p/when-batha...

Thanks @thebeerfather.bsky.social The micropub in question is the Rat Race in Hartlepool train station. If anyone wants to be in on a long-running beer gag please head down with a four-pack of Foster’s for Peter as a ‘gift’ from me

Dune Where’s My Car

Dear reader, we won the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) award!!

My kids asked me what I was like in the 90s and I told them to shut the fuck up and stop harvesting my data

pubs really are the fourth emergency service. I can't pretend the rage doesn't overtake me occasionally when someone's really snapping my bones but like. it's 70% social work, 30% being ridiculously good at pouring four pints at once

UK GDP Growth never returned home.

‘Labour become trapped in the past, altering history with the help of their holographic guide, Mandelson’

A splash to explain to the grandkids

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Watching football videos I came across repeated claims Messi donated money to Israel www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...

Just need a normal lighter for the hob. The internet:

Lovely typo in a Harry Potter TV show article.

In his personal story for our latest issue, @davidjesudason.bsky.social writes about healing racist trauma at the micropub where he now works after years of bad experiences at other establishments.

Always worth remembering that @gbnewsonline.bsky.social was used to promote Cask Marque's Cask Ale Week in 2023

Just got caught up on this and it's delightful. FWIW, I also had an Atari 2600 (and, later, C64) and the only thing I could ever get ET to do in the game was elongate his neck and briefly levitate. Ghost Manor and Pitfall were more my speed.

Beer Hour: Amelie Tassin @teamdb.bsky.social

Have a listen and weep at my childhood 🤣

Blast from the past this!

This Saharan dust bomb is great for the eyes

Pubs for the People by me & Vallu is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in October. On how the pub can be salvaged as a space for the Good Life that goes beyond boring ideas of White England. A bargain at £18.99 in hardback (cant even get 3 pints for that!) www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...

This week I wrote a few thoughts on the Belgian coast and its beer culture or lack of atjpubs.substack.com/p/the-salt-w...

Despite being fiercely anti-gambling, I really enjoyed this and have always wondered about these PMU bars. Great stuff from @anahlcq.bsky.social & @pelliclemag.com www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...

Never forget #brewdog

Love this. It's about how Roald Dahl understood and predicted virality chloecombi.substack.com/p/how-did-we...

Barrel cleaning at Cantillon.

Top 5 central London reasonable cask indie options 1) Ye Three Lords - City £4.95 2) Queen Charlotte - Fitzrovia £4 at certain times/days 3) Blue Maid - Borough £5 (bought Cindersap by @elusivebrewing.com as per photo) 4) Hand & Marigold - Bermondsey 5) @theshirkersrest.bsky.social (Zone 2)

Sign me up

🍺 No, YOU just discovered that the Queen Charlotte (formerly a Br**dog Draft House, but now sister to the Blue Maid in London Bridge) serves £4 pints of cask and core on Sundays, and is conveniently - and, some might say, dangerously - located between the gym and home 😑

For everyone else, this week’s beery new notes were brought to you by @katiematherkm.bsky.social @morrighani.bsky.social @seanayling.bsky.social @davidjesudason.bsky.social @barmas.bsky.social @davidnilsenbeer.bsky.social and a whole lotta other folk… including DRUNK CHIMPS!!!

Tonight I shall discover how truly awful Tron: Ares is. I mean it can’t be that bad? #famouslastwords

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If only police services had been warned about this type of thing. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...