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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
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Barry M
3 days ago
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.
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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
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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
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David Bailey
6 days ago
Taking empties back to the bar for
@pelliclemag.com
's latest multi-contributor Essential guide to pub etiquette:
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
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Michael Deakin
6 days ago
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 😂
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Pellicle
6 days ago
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...
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The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10/29/the-essential-guide-to-pub-etiquette
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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
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J'adore Le Plonk — BURUM COLLECTIVE
https://www.burumcollective.com/jlp
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Michael Deakin
9 days ago
📢 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.
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Don’t Look Down
When your work demands that you shift between several different versions of yourself every day, how do you remember which version is really you when it comes to spending time away from the bar?
https://8bitsandbobs.co.uk/2025/11/01/dont-look-down/
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Jessica Mason
11 days ago
Perry’s success is in its uniqueness, not its ubiquity
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Perry’s success is in its uniqueness, not its ubiquity
The perry category is in growth and has gathered pace over recent years. Jessica Mason looks at why restaurants and independent bottle shops are stocking it as a discerning low-alcohol choice for thos...
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/10/perrys-success-is-in-its-uniqueness-not-its-ubiquity/
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Three Counties Cider & Perry Association
15 days ago
The TCCPA announce their Perry is Alive campaign in response to Westons recent declaration that perry is "dead" Imagery:
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Cider Review
18 days ago
Westons' statement that "perry is dead" dismisses centuries-old craftsmanship and cultural significance. Barry (
@barmas.bsky.social
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Editorial: Perry Is Not Dead.
Westons’ statement that “perry is dead” dismisses centuries-old craftsmanship and cultural significance. Barry argues that education, not erasure, is essential.
https://cider-review.com/2025/10/24/editorial-perry-is-not-dead/
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Nicola Miller
27 days ago
"What is it that you want from your waitress?" Brilliant,
@rachelhendry.bsky.social
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Pellicle
27 days ago
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...
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The Waitress — Pellicle
“The waitress is different; she is ignorant and coarse, but genial. She is often unwashed and her teeth are unfilled, but she knows life and she is not afraid of life, which is to her big, dramatic, b...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10/14/the-waitress-rachel-hendry
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Matthew Curtis
27 days ago
This is such bold, adventurous writing from Rachel. Such a pleasure to be able to publish work of this calibre.
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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...
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The Waitress — Pellicle
“The waitress is different; she is ignorant and coarse, but genial. She is often unwashed and her teeth are unfilled, but she knows life and she is not afraid of life, which is to her big, dramatic, b...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10/14/the-waitress-rachel-hendry
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David Bailey
about 2 months ago
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:
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Burum Collective
about 2 months ago
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
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Phil Mellows
about 2 months ago
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.
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Common ground: Can there be a relationship between cask beer and sparkling wine?
https://learn.camra.org.uk/courses/common-ground-can-there-be-a-relationship-between-cask-beer-and-sparkling-wine?fbclid=IwRlRTSAM6NvhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnVKZwbYYh7i1_Of3PbGrO2trnxLcTgdZkrjniA3f_S0vxBAAcUNfJvB7qyI_aem_UqnlakI_GP9vpirAhuoM4A
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David Bailey
about 2 months ago
On the common ground between cask beer and sparkling wine by the boss
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for
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Three Counties Cider & Perry Association
about 2 months ago
You have until Friday to enter the worlds best and largest international perry competition!
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Burum Collective
2 months ago
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
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Burum Collective
2 months ago
The Editors Note for The Usual is now available to read here or through the link below! Written by
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www.burumcollective.com/about/usuale...
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Altona 93 Fanzines
3 months ago
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! 👇🏽
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Ben Tisdall
3 months ago
My local have one commemorating their cat’s 10th birthday!
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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/...
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The Wood That Drank The Heart — The Love and Life of Beer Mats — Pellicle
There is a theory I’m working on, born from over a decade of hospitality work, that the things a society pays the least attention to often have the most to say. To be discarded and dismissed, yet to e...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/19/the-wood-that-drank-the-heart-the-love-and-life-of-beer-mats
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Historic Beer Ads
3 months ago
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.
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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/...
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The Wood That Drank The Heart — The Love and Life of Beer Mats — Pellicle
There is a theory I’m working on, born from over a decade of hospitality work, that the things a society pays the least attention to often have the most to say. To be discarded and dismissed, yet to e...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/19/the-wood-that-drank-the-heart-the-love-and-life-of-beer-mats
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻
3 months ago
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/...
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The Wood That Drank The Heart — The Love and Life of Beer Mats — Pellicle
There is a theory I’m working on, born from over a decade of hospitality work, that the things a society pays the least attention to often have the most to say. To be discarded and dismissed, yet to e...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/19/the-wood-that-drank-the-heart-the-love-and-life-of-beer-mats?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=68a4b3564010181920cd3ea5&ss_email_id=68a55674503a122aa8293964&ss_campaign_name=The+Ballad+of+the+Beer+Mats&ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-08-20T05%3A00%3A49Z
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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!
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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
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Adrian Clark
3 months ago
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.)
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Cut To The Feeling — The Anatomy of Smith’s Scampi Fries — Pellicle
I’ve been staring at the block of chartreuse-coloured card hanging on my kitchen wall for weeks. The concertinaed columns of pale lemon plastic hanging neatly from it have looked so peaceful I haven...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2023/1/16/the-anatomy-of-scampi-fries
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Burum Collective
4 months ago
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
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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
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Pilot
5 months ago
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.
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Katie Mather
5 months ago
Exciting post today!
@burumcollective.bsky.social
's new zine The Usual
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Barry M
5 months ago
My goal is to get CR to 500 subscribers this year. We’re at 418 now. It’s free! 🙂
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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/...
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Cidre Breton — One Iconic Cider From Both Sides Of The Channel — Pellicle
Those in the UK who say size doesn’t matter have clearly never encountered a litre bottle of Cidre Breton. Its magnitude in comparison to its puny 750ml relations is an immediate distraction, the amb...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/4/cidre-breton-one-iconic-cider-from-both-sides-of-the-channel
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Pellicle
5 months ago
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/...
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Cidre Breton — One Iconic Cider From Both Sides Of The Channel — Pellicle
Those in the UK who say size doesn’t matter have clearly never encountered a litre bottle of Cidre Breton. Its magnitude in comparison to its puny 750ml relations is an immediate distraction, the amb...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/4/cidre-breton-one-iconic-cider-from-both-sides-of-the-channel
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Katie Mather
5 months ago
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/...
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Cidre Breton — One Iconic Cider From Both Sides Of The Channel — Pellicle
Those in the UK who say size doesn’t matter have clearly never encountered a litre bottle of Cidre Breton. Its magnitude in comparison to its puny 750ml relations is an immediate distraction, the amb...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/6/4/cidre-breton-one-iconic-cider-from-both-sides-of-the-channel
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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! ❤️
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Matthew Curtis
6 months ago
“There's so much complacency with community right now, what is there to be gained from drinking the same as everyone else?” Excellent.
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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
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#46 Wine & Taste III
https://mailchi.mp/9a70e1bf7e48/wine-and-taste-three
6 months ago
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Tom Usher
6 months ago
We truly live in a golden age for people who are clearly bigoted getting to pretend their bigotry is progressive
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Jolyon Maugham KC
7 months ago
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.
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Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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Helen Jerome
7 months ago
Love this
@vittles.bsky.social
piece on spices, Wales 🏴, colonialism and much more
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The Spices in your Welsh Cakes
How the cultural history of the Welsh cake complicates conventional understandings of the role of Wales in the British Empire. Words by Yasmin Begum. Illustration by Keira Evans.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/the-spices-in-your-welsh-cakes?r=1j8gr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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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!
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Pellicle
7 months ago
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...
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Timothy Taylor’s Landlord — A Polyptych of a Pint — Pellicle
I. “I’m told you serve the best pint of Landlord in Sheffield,” I say to the person behind the bar of The Sportsman on Benty Lane. “Well we definitely serve enough of it,” they reply with a smirk a...
https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2024/10/31/timothy-taylors-landlord-a-polyptych-of-a-pint
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Cider Review
7 months ago
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.
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Pyrus Invictus – Barry’s CraftCon 2025 Keynote
The text of Barry’s keynote address at CraftCon 2025, looking at the cultural heritage of cider and perry in central Europe, and his efforts to preserve tradition and biodiversity amid modern…
https://cider-review.com/2025/04/05/pyrus-invictus-barrys-craftcon-2025-keynote/
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