Proper Job is an institution. There, we've said it. Who better to talk about the legacy and impact of this IPA than @atjbeer.bsky.social? www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

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

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...

Riyadh Comedy Festival sounds wild. "Ever noticed anything about Saudi Arabia? Neither have I!" www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

600 retweets for something that is… not true. It’s being built in-house by GDS/DSIT, and probably isn’t that expensive given most of the infrastructure already exists. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-the-uk...

Arrived at the Blythe Hill Tavern yesterday just as a new cask of Sussex Best went on. Oh the humanity!

Inspired by @akrennmair.bsky.social’s glowing review earlier this week, I have acquired this handsome keg. O'zapft is? It will be soon

This story rears its furry little head every few years, but the evidence is always thin - in this case, it appears to be an estimate made by someone who works in pest control. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Macro Mick and Craft Beer Gary for @pelliclemag.com www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

A while back Historic England asked for my opinion on which was the oldest pub in London. The result is a new online article that outlines the variables, busts some myths, and points to a couple of genuinely ancient pubs in and around the city... heritagecalling.com/2025/09/25/w...

Happy Cask Ale Week, casketeers!

I had a blast today at the Garrett Oliver "meet the brewer" event at the King's Arms in London, not only because I met Garrett Oliver, but also because I had a great time talking to @thornbridgedom.bsky.social, @longm8.bsky.social and @willhawkes.bsky.social.

In February 2024 I visited French & Jupps, the UKs oldest existing maltster, and roasted malt specialist. I’d never heard of them before, despite them being in operation since 1689. It’s story fascinated me, so I wrote it for @pelliclemag.com here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

Thank you to @willhawkes.bsky.social & his @londonbeercity.bsky.social newsletter for drawing this wonderful film to my attention. It’s a fantastic snapshot - featuring some very familiar faces - of the excitement of the London brewing scene back in 2010. youtu.be/DggCEQoLnAs?...

One of the pubs (superbly) profiled here is McGlynn's in KX; right at the bottom it says locals believe the pub has been bought by artist Peter Doig! Quite a story if true.

Excited to share the first three case study 'long reads' from the After Last Orders project - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. Each case study draws on extensive research to tell the story of a pub and the people and places affected by its closure. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk

Beamish will return to the UK market in October, for the first time since 2008 (with the exception of a few kegs which made it over for St Patrick’s Day this year). Cave Direct is bringing it in.

Oktoberfest is nearly upon us and in today’s @dailystar.co.uk I’ve brought together a First XI of Brit breweries making superb Festbiers including @lostandgrounded.bsky.social @teamutopian.bsky.social @durationbeer.bsky.social @pilotbeer.co.uk @pillarsbrewery.bsky.social & @verdantbrew.bsky.social

Royale Union St-Gilloise have been *the* revelation of Belgian football this decade. Before they play their first ever Champions League match tonight, read their riches-rags-riches story, filtered through their unique relationship with Brussels’ breweries www.beercity.brussels/home/2023/ro...

This is war, Will 😉 Good use of "Story of the Blues", mind. #Wah

I’m testing this for an article. Have just tried it - the Bass was quite good if foamy - and the recommended temperature of 7 is too low. I’ve put it up to 10

The weather was the highlight of yesterday’s match, until Kevin came on. This was just after a thunderous downpour

Which is the best English city for pubs? Liverpool for me (although it is close, I didn’t write the headline) www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/127bd78...

This was a great trip down memory lane, pints of Dogbolter at the Feast & Firkin (we called it the Beast of Burden) in Leeds.

Ooh. Head to head with Norwich in The Times this Sunday!

New @londonbeercity.bsky.social today, featuring: - The London Brewers Alliance festival at Bird House - what’s it like being a small brewery in London today? - V interesting pub reopenings, eg Florist in E2 - The original Firkin pubs, 46 years on! Sign up here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

Which is the best English city for pubs? Liverpool for me (although it is close, I didn’t write the headline) www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/127bd78...

And, after two years, we are finally back to being a team of four. Please give a warm welcome our new associate editor, @clairembullen.bsky.social. You might have heard of her. She's kind of a big deal.

20 years ago today. I bought four tickets for £10 each at the start of the summer - still by some distance the smartest sporting decision I’ve made. I went with my dad, brother and girlfriend (now wife, although don’t think this was decisive).

New @londonbeercity.bsky.social today, featuring: - The London Brewers Alliance festival at Bird House - what’s it like being a small brewery in London today? - V interesting pub reopenings, eg Florist in E2 - The original Firkin pubs, 46 years on! Sign up here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

Definitely still our core channel for recruitment. *But* unfortunately we aren't seeing the recruitment numbers we used to. That said, festivals remain core to our business model. Just not two high cost, high risk flagships.

Sorry to be right about this. No GBBF next year as it made “a substantial loss”, according to CAMRA

Just thought I’d say…

A large FORTY PERCENT off everything in my shop until Sunday to mark the occasion that I just added FOURTEEN new prints based on my comic chronicles for @pelliclemag.com Swag up: www.davidbaileyillustration.com/shop

The man who started craft beer? My profile of David Bruce for @pelliclemag.com (photos by Sean McEmerson): www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

One of the maddest days of my life. My day with Big Ron. Now on Deserter Substack deserterblog.substack.com/p/my-day-wit...

Audacious to describe this as a Pils, but it is delicious - but given it cost £6, it should be. Superb NZ hop flavour.

This just makes it more annoying www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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

Brewery Schneeeule in Berlin is calling it quits. I'm very sad to see Ulrike go - beer needs big personalities like her. Maybe I need another Berlin trip before they are gone..

Two years of doing comics for @pelliclemag.com 🎉 New one chats depictions of hangovers with The Hangover (2009) vs Edvard Munch's The Day After (1895) Read it here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

Apropos of my previous post, here’s @pelliclemag.com’s latest comic drawn by real life human David Bailey. I know he exists because I’ve had a pint with him and everything. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

Sorry, not an upset. Man U haven’t beaten Grimsby since 1946 🎣

BLOG POST: Is BrewDog Punk IPA still a decent beer? The only way to find out is to at least *try* to taste it with some objectivity. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/08/is-b...

A moral 1-0 for mighty Fulham. V dodgy goal indeed for Manchester’s second team 🧐

England’s 500 Best Pubs now exists in print form, courtesy of today’s Telegraph Magazine. It’s an edited version, chopped up into sections (best beer, most historic etc) and nicely illustrated.

Did the tour of Munich’s Allianz Arena a few weeks’ ago with my kids. A classic modern stadium tour, although because it was Bavaria on a weekend many of the dads were drinking beer at 10.30am pre-tour (including me). Anyway, enjoyed the live Bundesliga on the Beeb this evening, Harry Kane 👌🏽