thank you to everyone who has pre ordered a zine! we are halfway to our pre order target already which is HUGE. you can get a cap now also! they’re gorgeous imo. the whole project is fun and beautiful and silly and i’m so proud of what we’ve created! Get a copy here ⬇️ www.burumcollective.com/jlp

As promised… This started life as dictated notes while walking the dog a couple weeks ago, and was intended to be an Instagram post about what it’s like being a part-time cider maker and orchardist. But there are many more out there doing the same afterhours toil. So this is for them.

thank you to everyone who has pre ordered a zine! we are halfway to our pre order target already which is HUGE. you can get a cap now also! they’re gorgeous imo. the whole project is fun and beautiful and silly and i’m so proud of what we’ve created! Get a copy here ⬇️ www.burumcollective.com/jlp

delighted to be shortlisted for three categories this year alongside so many incredible writers! best commissioned beer writing, best communication about diversity in beer and best communication about cider alongside my gorgeously talented friend @anahlcq.bsky.social

Taking empties back to the bar for @pelliclemag.com's latest multi-contributor Essential guide to pub etiquette: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

My favourite part of this was reading each individual section and seeing how quickly I could guess which author it was. @rachelhendry.bsky.social we clearly spend too much time together because I got both of yours at the start of the second sentence 😂

The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette! Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered." Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

I sent out my last ever j'adore le plonk on Friday. In memoriam I've turned it into a zine with the help of my friends @helenannesmith.bsky.social Otto Taylor-Rickard and @gergemanson.bsky.social I think we've made something very beautiful - pre order's are now live! www.burumcollective.com/jlp

📢 NEW BLOG POST Very overdue return for my personal blog. An exploration of identity and the struggle to hold onto a sense of self when hospitality work requires that you spend a large part of your life shifting your persona to suit the needs of the customer. 8bitsandbobs.co.uk/2025/11/01/d...

Perry’s success is in its uniqueness, not its ubiquity @teamdb.bsky.social

The TCCPA announce their Perry is Alive campaign in response to Westons recent declaration that perry is "dead" Imagery: @helenannesmith.bsky.social tccpa.co.uk/perry-is-ali...

Westons' statement that "perry is dead" dismisses centuries-old craftsmanship and cultural significance. Barry (@barmas.bsky.social) argues that education, not erasure, is essential. With reference to @beesononbooze.bsky.social’s recent article.

"What is it that you want from your waitress?" Brilliant, @rachelhendry.bsky.social

The Waitress, a million personas, fetishes and expectations in one woman. A look at what it means to serve, by @rachelhendry.bsky.social www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

This is such bold, adventurous writing from Rachel. Such a pleasure to be able to publish work of this calibre.

for @pelliclemag.com i've written about the formation of The Waitress: a facilitator of desires, a manager of expectations, a performance of manners. about what happens when success is dictated by character, about what it is to serve for a living www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

Fantastic article from @rachelhendry.bsky.social as per on the social perception of cask beer for CAMRA. Chuffed to provide illustrations for it. It's cask ale week somewhere: learn.camra.org.uk/courses/cask...

In our next piece, Rosemary Richings talks to a variety of people within the disability community about what they want to see from hospitality venues when it comes to making customers feel welcome Words by Rosemary Richings Illustration by Helen Anne Smith www.burumcollective.com/posts/trueme...

Cask beer and sparkling wine have more in common than you think argues @rachelhendry.bsky.social for @camraofficial.bsky.social It’s all down to the pet nat I reckon. learn.camra.org.uk/courses/comm...

On the common ground between cask beer and sparkling wine by the boss @rachelhendry.bsky.social for @camraofficial.bsky.social. Bunch of illustrations on a super interesting comparison: learn.camra.org.uk/courses/comm...

You have until Friday to enter the worlds best and largest international perry competition!

Our first online piece from The Usual is by the community publican of The Trafalgar in Wimbledon, providing us their perspective on pubs, building community, and what it means to have regulars 🍻🤝 Words by Oli Carter-Esdale Illustration by Helen Anne Smith www.burumcollective.com/posts/solace

The Editors Note for The Usual is now available to read here or through the link below! Written by @rachelhendry.bsky.social www.burumcollective.com/about/usuale...

This article by @rachelhendry.bsky.social for @pelliclemag.com is so wonderful that I would love to frame it and hang it on the wall. Do we want to create a thread with beer mats of football clubs? Let me start with #Altona93. Feel free to share and reply with others! 👇🏽

My local have one commemorating their cat’s 10th birthday!

back on @pelliclemag.com contemplating beer mats today, those tiny discs of pulp that soak up and support and siren call to drinks past present and future only to be discarded to the pub floor: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

This article tickled my brain, and now I'm thinking about how intentionally disposable things record history in totally different ways than all stuff that tries (lol) to last forever. Anyway, here's a Löwenbräu coaster from the 1964 World's Fair in New York.

back on @pelliclemag.com contemplating beer mats today, those tiny discs of pulp that soak up and support and siren call to drinks past present and future only to be discarded to the pub floor: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

A wonderful piece of writing from Pellicle this morning on beer mats- “They punctuate the bar I work in, propping up tables, ripped into shreds by skittish or destructive hands, knocked to the floor, stolen as mementos. They see so much, these beer mats.” www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

what is so frustrating is that there are lots of people doing fantastic work when it comes to creating safe, dignified, inclusive drinking spaces - they can be asked for advice! they can be paid to consult! they can be approached and included and hired to work on events and festivals!

i am thinking about what it is to have such abundance and access to crops they can be fermented, used solely for pleasure and drunkenness whilst those in Gaza have such deliberate, calculated scarcity they are being left to starve. Separated by fate of birth, connected by complicity

Bit late to this, but it's great. @rachelhendry.bsky.social on the history and significance of Scampi Fries. (I also didn't realise that British scampi is made with langoustines. I just assumed they were non-specific prawns. Also, I miss Cheese Moments.)

As some of you will already know, our webshop has been down for about a month now. Sadly the online payment company we use Stripe are suspicious that we might not be real, so our account has been locked down until they've finished their checks, but its taking a verry long time

i met Robin in the middle of Chassignolles two summers ago and we've been pen pals ever since, her writing is so gorgeous and sharp and interesting - THRILLED to read her dreamy, smart, intuitive exploration of Dutch cider in Pellicle today

Look we're aware you may not agree with our decision to supply beer to the Death Star but it's a very good account and we have to consider a diversity of views and it's not breaking any UK Government rules so morally we're off the hook.

Exciting post today! @burumcollective.bsky.social's new zine The Usual

My goal is to get CR to 500 subscribers this year. We’re at 418 now. It’s free! 🙂

for @pelliclemag.com i joined the incredible @anahlcq.bsky.social to talk about the legendary Cidre Breton We talked about how growth, location & interpretation influence taste, what contributes to a phenomenon & how one cider can be viewed so differently www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/...

A crisp and refreshing double-take on Cidre Breton, from both sides of the Channel. @rachelhendry.bsky.social & @anahlcq.bsky.social came together to write the story of everyone's favourite fancy restaurant's favourite cider. But is it really that special? www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/...

From The French House to the farmhouse, Cidre Breton has a lot of fans. In @pelliclemag.com's latest feature, @rachelhendry.bsky.social chats to Trevor Gulliver of St.John, and @anahlcq.bsky.social discusses what the French feel about their "true cider". www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/...

a beautiful testament to the effect enthusiasm & passion can have on both a community in the long term & the solace seekers of those passing through. It’s cool to care! ❤️

“There's so much complacency with community right now, what is there to be gained from drinking the same as everyone else?” Excellent.

hello here is a j'adore le plonk where i got cross about the chicken wine and way dining out is now being aestheticised on social media mailchi.mp/9a70e1bf7e48...

We truly live in a golden age for people who are clearly bigoted getting to pretend their bigotry is progressive

Labour's new policy - of humiliating trans people by requiring them constantly to self-identify - we believe puts the UK (again) in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and will seek a declaration of incompatability. goodlaw.social/0r6l

Love this @vittles.bsky.social piece on spices, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, colonialism and much more open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

the reduction and purification of definitions of gender and sexuality is faschism. there is nothing natural or stable about human biology! gender has no single, universal story!

Another Yorkshire brewery that's proud to be independent — @timothytaylors.bsky.social. This special piece was written by @rachelhendry.bsky.social www.pelliclemag.com/home/2024/10...

Pyrus Invictus. The text of @barmas.bsky.social’s keynote address at @3ccpa.bsky.social CraftCon 2025, looking at the cultural heritage of cider and perry in central Europe, and his efforts to preserve tradition and biodiversity amid modern agriculture.