I'm on the long train home from London gasping for a pint, please send your Friday bev pics to the Pelli account I beg

Obituary for Des de Moor now online at the Guardian www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

Yesterday I spent a full day in a meeting with @katiematherkm.bsky.social and @clairembullen.bsky.social planning to future of Pellicle and afterwards we had fantastic food and beer at the @kernelbrewery.bsky.social before delicious pints at The Hand and Marigold.

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I had no idea I&G had even gone into administration.

Today would be a good day to pre order my new book

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...

Fabulous top to bottom. One reason why I spend money to support @pelliclemag.com.

This is a wonderful piece.

Treated myself to this 100% crisp malt heritage chevallier Wireworks whisky from @whitepeak.bsky.social. I’ve had all chev beers before and it’s such a muscular, expressive grain. Can’t wait to tear into this.

This is just such a great piece of analysis with photos that take you right into the heart of the action. Incredible work from @anahlcq.bsky.social and @cmluttun.bsky.social!

Stories like this make me smug as all hell to be deputy editor of @pelliclemag.com @anahlcq.bsky.social is the best drinks and working class culture writer in the world right now. I said what I said. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...

A couple of sitting MPs follow me so I am resharing this because I think this is a pretty darn good idea and imagine if we had something similar in the uk that helped showcase our long, rich culture of beer and brewing.

Tomorrow's @pelliclemag.com feature is an incredible piece of combined writing and photojournalism. Do sign up to our free newsletter if you haven't already, so you can get notifications of new stories straight in your inbox: www.pelliclemag.com/contact

TAPROOM NEWS! Introducing Abbeydale Beerworks - just 200 steps from the brewery roller shutters! We're taking on 298 Abbeydale Road, previously the wonderful Turner's. We can’t wait to play a new part in the neighbourhood that means so much to us and that we’ve called home for the past 30 years.

Suns out today. I highly recommend going outside, looking at the leaves busting from buds, and listening to a river flow for a few minutes. Did wonders for me.

www.geterbrewed.com/blog/2026/02... Scary times for pubs. But a welcome note of positivity in this excellent piece by Matt @pelliclemag.com Read on. (He's reminded me, it's high time I visited Leeds - something for East West Fest weekend methinks)

Eating shreddies for the first time in years thanks to the obvious product placement in Small Prophets.

Brewdog EFPs have just received this message @melissacolebeer.bsky.social @beesononbooze.bsky.social @byrobdavies.bsky.social 1/2

Horrific.

Tired: BrewDog has betrayed its punk roots by accepting private-equity cash Wired: BrewDog's "punk" schtick was always an expedient marketing sham Inspired: BrewDog incinerated billions of dollars of implied value and made global capital interests look stupid, finally fulfilling its punk mission

21st C capitalism: Build a company on someone else’s money. Take out £725m of their money to put into your own account. Crash the company Repeat.

I just keep imagining a story about the brewdog hotel in town that's got one hapless guest but its closed due to the sale and they're trapped and they can't get out so they have to make their way to the roof terrace and then scale down the living wall in order to escape!

What's the future for pubs in an uncertain hospitality industry? It's a question I asked myself a couple of month ago, and I allowed the thoughts that followed to congeal into this blog, for @geterbrewed.bsky.social. www.geterbrewed.com/blog/2026/02...

Pre-orders are the lifeblood for authors, especially for niche titles from small publishers like @camraofficial.bsky.social. You can now order the 2nd edition of Manchester's Best Beer, Pubs and Bars direct here: shop1.camra.org.uk/product/manc...

In case you missed it, yesterday I got excited and jumped the gun and announced that my new book will be out on April 2nd! Stay tuned for details of a free to attend launch party also.

This is exciting isn’t it. Art by David Bailey, foreword by Matty White, 50 new additions, out April 2nd. I imagine you might want a pre order link, eh?

New podcast is at #20 in the UK food charts which is rare for a beer pod, so thanks for listening. Here’s a little clip, why not give it a listen today if you haven’t already?

Ossett is releasing a nitro version of White Rat. The smoothflow years have returned.

Today is the 10 year anniversary of me going freelance. I never had a proper job that lasted more than five years. I hope I get to write about and photograph beer and pubs for a living for the rest of my life.

Absolutely horsing into a bottle of Skyborry Perry. Iechyd da.

Everyone likes to talk about glitter beer, no one talks about the fact it gave you glittery shits.

Who can resist a shout out to the Cadieux Cafe and feather bowling? www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...

"There he is" "Here I am" 💗💗💗💗💗 Oh how wonderful it is to be seen, to be known www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...

If you have a spare 25 minutes today please consider sticking on my latest @pelliclemag.com podcast episode on for a listen. It’s documentary style rather than a long form interview, and I even wrote and recorded original music for it! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

DT got mogwai tickets for tonight and they are SEATED. This is the best thing ever!

The latest episode of the @pelliclemag.com podcast, about how @thornbridge.bsky.social saved the Burton Union, is now live. Listen to it now wherever you get your podcasts, or direct on our site here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...

Oh what a pure and beautiful joy the best beer is. Tag yourself. We are ALL OF THEM. @bathedailey www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...

Yes Manchester. Send those racist bastards back where they came from.

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

How @thornbridge.bsky.social saved the Burton Union — Pellicle Podcast Ep85 www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...

I've really been looking forward to this episode. @totalcurtis.bsky.social does a great job with these podcasts and it's a fascinating topic.

The latest episode of the @pelliclemag.com podcast, about how @thornbridge.bsky.social saved the Burton Union, is now live. Listen to it now wherever you get your podcasts, or direct on our site here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/2/...

Started watching small prophets last night and it’s wonderful but also a little weirded out because it’s filmed on the shopping estate behind my house

Painting pints and pubs. A corner in Roseburn Bar, Edinburgh.

I was incorrect, it's already out today! Make friends and enjoy your peace in Cologne. www.independent.co.uk/travel/europ...

A few late night thoughts from me on today’s @pelliclemag.com article because I feel like sharing: everyone who worked that piece, from writing and photography through to editing, layout and subbing at some point either worked for or contributed to Good Beer Hunting.

Was there in November. This article made me want to go straight back 😊

I was so excited to get the greenlight on this article about one of my favorite places in the world, the Hopleaf in Chicago. I hope I did it justice.