I wrote a big feature on the Old Spot in 2008/9 for What’s Brewing when they won pub of the year havent been there for years

Need to get back there

A pint of cask beer and a copy of A pub for all seasons, by Adrian Tierney-Jones.

No football for me this afternoon, instead the unexpected pleasure of a pint, a book and stress free Sunday solitude. @atjbeer.bsky.social

Don’t forget if you do do one at least 6-7 weeks lagering (or even more) as I’ve been told by Central European brewers - oh and a decoction mash (that’s just my obsession)

Hope you enjoy it, as an Arsenal fan I have a stressful afternoon ahead but I’m soothing it with a Doppelbock from @teamutopian.bsky.social

I'm in the pub @rogerprotz.bsky.social @petebrownbeer.bsky.social @atjbeer.bsky.social

If that’s the Coopers I remember about 10/12 years ago @petebrownbeer.bsky.social and I were in there and about to order Jaipur and we saw Bass was on, immediate swerve (though we also had Jaipur later)

Very good mate

Did BrewDog put cask beer back a decade? It genuinely does feel like cask beer is having its moment on the bar. Bass, Boddington’s, Landlord, it feels like they’re everywhere. Dare I say it,...

Did BrewDog put cask beer back a decade? Here’s my latest for @whatsbrewing.bsky.social.

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That sounds good

I was amazed that I had not featured Theakston’s Old Peculier before as my beer of the week but in today’s @dailystar.co.uk that omission has been rectified

I was amazed that I had not featured Theakston’s Old Peculier before as my beer of the week but in today’s @dailystar.co.uk that omission has been rectified

I Travel Thoughts on travel and beer and change

A bit of light reading atjpubs.substack.com/p/i-travel

I Travel Thoughts on travel and beer and change

A bit of light reading atjpubs.substack.com/p/i-travel

I Travel Thoughts on travel and beer and change

Thoughts on beer, travel and change atjpubs.substack.com/p/i-travel

Excellent piece

I Travel Thoughts on travel and beer and change

Thoughts on beer, travel and change atjpubs.substack.com/p/i-travel

Royal Oak at Borough

Got a train home soon from Waterloo but it’d be rude not to pay my respects

Back from holiday and would love for you to read this especially for the Shaun of the Dead reference. It's about how some act like Zombies when listening to politicians talk about pubs

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I live in Exeter and when I travel it’s straight to Eurostar but this time seeing my son in Tulse Hill gave me this opportunity

I used to stay in Carshalton 30 years ago when we moved to Somerset and I still worked at a London mag - my wife came from there and her parents had a business next to Carshalton Beeches with a flat above so I stayed there but the Hope wasn’t a place to go then

Naturally

This was the right one

Wrong pic

I noticed them on a blackboard

Finally made it to the Hope in Carshalton, what a fabulous pub

Finally made it to the Hope in Carshalton, what a fabulous pub

Bit of a change of scene for my beer of the week in today’s @dailystar.co.uk - it’s a deliciously refreshing Raspberry Radler from Lofi and an ideal first beer after you’ve ran a marathon as my son is doing in Brighton this weekend (I’ll be watching from the Evening Star)