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-...

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.

The beauty of cask ale, my latest for the Telegraph. Featuring the Limeburners, one of the great rural Lancashire boozers: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/409a9e8...

There is a new @londonbeercity.bsky.social this week, featuring: - The Trafalgar Ale House & the threat to London's pubs - London's Czech beer problem - 40ft's inexorable rise - Temple Brewhouse goes underground - Other stuff 🤷‍♀️ Sign up here to get it tomorrow: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

I've spent the past few months researching and writing (what I think is) the biggest pub guide ever published by a national newspaper (50,000 words!) - and today its been published! www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/best-...

Here’s a very European story. A London brewery, set up by Germans and Italians & making Franconian-style beer, is now selling lager back to the Germans - and everywhere else in Europe, too, if they get their way. How? Here’s how:

Brewers are fretting about tariffs on US hops - but after a few more years of Trump, will London drinkers want anything American?

New @londonbeercity.bsky.social out today, featuring: - Trump Juice: will Londoners lose their taste for American-style beer? - Brew By Numbers & Brick in Yorkshire - The licensing change that could revolutionise London pubs … & lots more Sign up here, it’s free: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

Hackney Brewery is closing. They blame Waltham Forest council, who have made a CVA agreed 9 months ago ‘unworkable’. This follows the closure of their taproom three weeks ago

New @londonbeercity.bsky.social coming at the end of this week. Featuring - the brewery that conquered London by stealth - Beamish is back - pub news in TW1, SE18, SW11 & E17 - the first night of a new regime at SE London’s best pub 😮 Subscribe here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

This month's edition is coming up a week on Friday, so why not sign up now to ensure you don't miss any of the fun? Amazingly, it's free 😮 www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

New pubs, closed breweries, an absolute gobshite. All feature in last month's @londonbeercity.bsky.social, which is now online here: www.willhawkes.net/blog/2025/3/...

Hope Stonegate don't radically change it, it's a wedge-shaped gem! Award-winning, listed, nationally important historic interior.

Last month's @londonbeercity.bsky.social is now available to read, if you like. You can also sign up (www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...) and get this month's edition delivered directly to your inbox. www.willhawkes.net/blog/2025/2/...

Con, landlord of the v popular Blythe Hill Tavern in SE London, is leaving at the end of the month after the best part of 40 years. It‘s a Stonegate pub, so there’s a risk it could change radically … which may explain why it was even more lively then normal this evening

¡There's a new @londonbeercity.bsky.social out tomorrow! Featuring: - New pubs that want to be old pubs - A v cool Victorian discovery - The Oz-based pilot who visited 50+ London pubs - Boozing in Bermondsey - Closed breweries, open pubs Sign up for free here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

Visited Stoke Newington’s Coach and Horses today for this week’s @londonbeercity.bsky.social. It’s currently being refurbished - they’ve found these 19th-century booze adverts hidden behind the panelling