Had the revived Boddington's. It is absolutely dire, sweet with Weetabix aroma.

You can prevent your cask ale going off or blowing its shive by chilling it like you should have done in the first place.

Do you think Scotrail feel they are getting value for money from their tannoy systems by using them as much as possible for incessant announcements?

Apparently Harland & Wolff are building a second Titanic and are offering a free voyage to everyone who died on the first one.

Köstritzer Schwarzbier is sponsoring the biggest Goth festival in Europe, the Wave-Gotik-Treffen, which is kind of cute.

Is anyone following me who knows about transatlantic beer export/import?

I didn't know about this: Sumalak, a dessert made of wheat malt, flour and oil eaten at Navruz in Uzbekistan, and also under other names elsewhere in Central Asia www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xmi...

One of my current projects is about Americans misinterpreting/misrepresenting bits of German beer culture and just deciding not to care. So I am obligated to express my deep thanks to this article for its generous support.

No disrespect to Riga or its brewing heritage but I have never seen this claim before: "In the 19th century, Riga was widely considered to be one of the world’s brewing capitals, on par with cities like Munich, Brussels, and Prague."

Q. What is the term for a fire sufficiently large to require the intervention of the emergency services? A. A blaze. Q. What do firefighters do to such a conflagration? A. They tackle it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Woke up early, opened Instagram, saw people talking about “a premium unboxing experience”, went back to bed.

Flavoured this and radler that. Why do big breweries hate beer so much?

I thought that torrefied wheat was used because wheat has more protein than barley and hence aids head retention. Now I read that just torrefied barley also improves head retention. What does torrefaction change in the grain?

What's the most famous pub / beer-drinking establishment in the world?

I can't help wondering whether they looked for any signs of germination in these carbonised wheat grains. It seems that no, they didn't. Once again an assumption of flour and bread, a staple food, when wheat can also be malted. Then it becomes something different. Malt. phys.org/news/2026-04...

Pubs: we are inclusive and welcoming now and have left behind the days when we marketed ourselves only to men Pubs when the World Cup is approaching: WOOOAAHH FOOTY COME ON SCOTLAND FOOTY FOOTY ICE COLD PINTS WITH THE LADS WOOOAAHHH

I'm right and you all know it.

What beers should have been revived instead of Boddington's? 1. Courage Russian Stout 2. Tetley Mild 3. Banks's Mild

What happened to the bread used to make kvass in the middle ages? People didn't waste anything back then. Was it fed to animals? Made into soup? Backslopped into fresh dough?

I was just thinking about a day trip I was going to do a few months ago, and I had spent so much time looking at places on Google Maps that I almost convinced myself I remembered being there. I never actually took the trip at all.

New post on #Fuggled, in which I finally discover whether innoculating a 19th century style London Porter with the dregs of an Orval bottle was worth the 8 year wait... #homebrew #beerhacking www.fuggled.net/2026/04/aged...

It could be worse, people could be serving Guinness as a milk tube.

A year after it was introduced, fewer than half of pubco tenants in Scotland are aware they have a right to stock a guest beer: siba.co.uk/2026/04/01/n...

And your general reminder that the Watney's takeover of Murphy's in the 1960s is the real origin story of Irish red ale. beerfoodtravel.blogspot.com/2021/09/brew...

Funny how now if a place specifically calls itself "Public House" you know immediately that someone who just wants a pint of beer is not welcome.

Fyne Ales Farm Brewery, in the Scottish highlands, has been named brewery business of the year, at the SIBA Business Awards, announced at BeerX in Liverpool beertoday.co.uk/2026/03/19/s... #beer #beernews #beerawards

Fortunately, these terrible beers have had almost no impact on my own beer drinking over the last decade.

Tennent's/C&C taking full ownership of Drygate, set up as joint venture with Williams Bros in 2014.

Thinking about how I usually stick to the classic local styles in Lagerland, but I would always order a new “extra hoppy” beer if they offered one. I probably wouldn’t if they called it an IPA. Funny how the mind works.

I think they were at the bitter end of things back in the day. Master brew has 35 IBU in a 3.5% beer. Sheps got PGIs for Kentish ale and Kentish strong ale, with both having bitter in the description.

If Scottish beer was supposedly lightly hopped because of the distance from the hop growing regions, why don’t Shepherd Neame make the bitterest beer in the UK?

Hidden sugars in hops? Another driver of hop creep perhaps. Interesting article (open access)🍻

Last night I finished ticking the 30 Wetherspoons festival beers and my selection of the best three is: - Acorn Vanilla Porter - Kirkstall Howe Sound - Elgoods Shug Monkey The beer quality was generally pretty good with only a couple I thought were actually bad.

The Catechism of Cliche is still in effect. Q. What is the name for a fire large enough to require the intervention of the fire brigade? A. A blaze. Q. What do firefighters do to such a conflagration? A. They tackle it.

How the as-splice creates misleading headlines. In fact the train cancellations and evacuations happened several hours before any building collapse. @bbcnews.bsky.social

Half way through the #Spoonsfest beers with 14 out of 30 ticked, Elgoods Shug Monkey is the top beer so far despite the more than dubious name. A basic bitter elevated to transcendence by pungent yeast esters and an astringent, addictive bitterness.

People are now planning holidays to Ireland just for spice bags.

Predictably, Brodog treated the staff they sacked in a typically shabby fashion.

George Thompson, talks about his time at the Drybrough in Edinburgh, including continuous fermentation and brewing with raw barley. youtu.be/08_Rd6xhxiw

3 thoughts on this from @laurenleek.eu. 1. Pubs close because of pubcos. 2. "Save the British pub" policies stuff cash into those same pubcos not "punters". 3. Reform wants to increase child poverty to do this. (4 It's brilliant and via @benansell.bsky.social ) open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

If you read one article on pubs this week, make it this one. “Third places: the pubs, cafés, and piazzas where community happens … when they vanish, trust collapses, civic life withers, democracy frays… who is dismantling these third spaces, and why?”

Hooray!

When studying the history of beer there are two important rules to always remember. 1. If one beer has the same name as another that doesn't mean it's the same beer. 2. If two beers have different names that doesn't mean they are different.

Prague, my old friend. So nice to see you again and share a few beers with you! tempestinatankard.com/2026/02/09/p...

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It would not surprise me to discover there were more bars serving cask ale in Italy than in one of its supposed homelands, Scotland. Though even that probably wouldn’t be enough to shame Scottish pub operators into offering it.

In the latest of a long line of British crimes against Ireland, JD Wetherspoon is now selling spice bags.

The popularity of goth music in Germany is due to folk memories of transporting beer to and from chilly, echoey caves cut out of the hillside. Prove me wrong

Surely you can't have a <div> inside a <td>? Is that allowed?