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?

I preferred Handy Price Widget's earlier work.

Why do I need to install OpenSSL, Python and SQLite just for a PDF renderer? The world's gone mad!

Swift bores are as tedious as Dylan bores. You have to listen to the lyrics, man, it's really profound.

Does no pub in Glasgow understand that people want a relaxing pint on their way home from work, and don't want to.listen to Whitney Houston?

Havas, the agency who launched Madri, could be in hot water — the original designer of the font they used for the logo is coming after Molson Coors for allegedly using a pirated version of the font without a license. reddit.com/r/typography/1msh04z/

Hope the beer didn't get damaged

Mild is on its way back to dominance

There's still a cultural divide between corporate software and free software Corp: "Recover a deleted file" Free: "VISIT THE SHEETS GRAVEYARD"

Wish we could just store up this heat for winter.

Hello Munich, this is what a full Maß looks like, in case you have never seen one.

Once a year, one of the most tranquil places to drink beer is transformed into one of the most raucous

Excellent news that 10 Brodog bars are closing. I hope the whole company goes under. The world of beer would be better off if it had never existed. That's it, that's the tweet. Do please quote me.

Today is Rauchbier Preservation Day, and I'm in Bamberg for it. Stay tuned #TagDerBewahrungDesRauchbieres

What makes a great pub? Take everything the big pub companies do: loud music, microwave food, shit beer, renovations that nobody wanted, garish menus all over – and do the opposite.

What was the weird obsession with post codes about that Marstons' marketing people had?

For American defeat.

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them.

As always happens, no sooner has the beer festival programme gone to print than messages start arriving saying that breweries are out of stock of the ordered beer, etc.

Got a haircut yesterday. I assume the guy usually shears sheep.

It struck me that since Roman times cities have constructed elaborate public fountains to provide fresh drinking water. It's only in our modern times that we force people to carry vats of water around with them or buy little plastic bottles.

Did Napoleon Bonaparte kick-start German Porter? refreshingbeer.blogspot.com/2025/06/napo...

"I homebrewed a lager with kvike and tasted it side by side with an Augustiner and there was no difference" I need to stop looking at YouTube

Is it snobbery to expect “beer educators” to be able to pronounce the styles they’re trying to tell you about?

I think that most bosses, rather than using LLM to replace their underlings, will instead either a) demand they use LLM without understanding what they do or b) accuse them of using LLM because they don't understand what they do The problem is that there's nobody you can phone up and shout at