Thank you Lisa, it's a great one for sure.

Halcyon and On and On — Drinking, Ageing, and The Green Goddess in Blackheath, London — Pellicle I have a simple, beautiful dream for my dotage. It entails being able to walk from my home to a brown pub that sells brown beer. I sit on a stool at the bar. Behind it, a much younger person smiles, says hello and asks how I am. They know my name.  I’ll be happy to be alive, to have my exi

A year on and I think it was this epic piece @vincerai.bsky.social on one of my faves @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social that prompted me to subscribe to the glorious @pelliclemag.com

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Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside — Pellicle I’m frantically searching the internet, flipping between Instagram profiles of local pubs and beer review app Untappd. Why? Well. The release of Colbier Brew Co.’s first white stout, Falsetto, has jus...

“We like making dark beers because the brewery smells great,” Mike says.

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The Boar They Butchered — The Demise of Ringwood Brewery, Hampshire — Pellicle I don’t remember my first pint of Ringwood Best Bitter, but I would put good money on it being at The Royal Oak in Fritham, a hamlet in the New Forest National Park. We used to go to The Royal Oak a...

Huge congrats to all of the Fortnum & Mason awards nominees, especially Imran Rahman-Jones who is nominated for a couple of pieces, including this absolute banger he wrote for @pelliclemag.com about Ringwood Brewery. Best of luck on the night.

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Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside — Pellicle I’m frantically searching the internet, flipping between Instagram profiles of local pubs and beer review app Untappd. Why? Well. The release of Colbier Brew Co.’s first white stout, Falsetto, has jus...

In my latest for @pelliclemag.com, I sat down with the award-winning team from @colbier.bsky.social who have stormed to SIBA Gold and made a great name for themselves in the last few years.

Thanks as always to @totalcurtis.bsky.social for the commission.

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Excellent piece by an excellent writer on @colbier.bsky.social the best brewery around, which I'll be drinking more of again this evening in the best pub, the Little Taproom, also namechecked in the article.

Dreaming of You — Colbier Brew Co. in Bootle, Merseyside — Pellicle I’m frantically searching the internet, flipping between Instagram profiles of local pubs and beer review app Untappd. Why? Well. The release of Colbier Brew Co.’s first white stout, Falsetto, has jus...

Beer and music in Bootle with @colbier.bsky.social!

Now everybody go and prove this quote from the story wrong: "I’d like to do an eisbock, but nobody's gonna buy that."

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This is v. cool!!

Gears and pulleys driving brewhouse

A "coolship" (cooling pan) at the communal brewhouse in Mitterteich

Communal brewhouses and coolships: that's how Zoigl in Bavaria's Oberpfalz gets its start. But it's in the Zoiglstube (tavern) where the magic happens.

Cheers to @pelliclemag.com for publishing my article on this enchanting region and its unique beer culture. 🍻

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A Poetic Act — Zoigl, the Schafferhof, and the Making of Place — Pellicle Communal brewhouses with gear-and-pully mash tuns. Brewing rights that stretch back to the Middle Ages. Wood-fired brew kettles and coolships. All this alone is enough to make Zoigl utterly unique.&nb...

Zoigl! More than just an excellent word, it is a beer and a cultural icon. @tempestinatankard.bsky.social visits his favourite zoiglstubes in the Oberpfalz to learn more.

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It's new book launch day for our editor @totalcurtis.bsky.social! Come to Café Beermoth this evening from 4pm - late to celebrate the release of Best Beer Pubs and Bars 2 and drink plenty of the special @runawaybrewery.bsky.social Man-Chester's Mild brewed for the occasion.

Zoigl really is an excellent word, a signifier of so much of cultural import in the Oberpfalz.

It was a total joy and pleasure working with @katiematherkm.bsky.social, who edited the article, and @totalcurtis.bsky.social, who gave the piece the initial thumbs-up.

Super cool illustrations, too!

Windischeschenbach FTW!!!

Amazing place, marvellous culture, excellent article. I think this is the coolship mentioned in the story, in the communal Windischeschenbach brewhouse (pic taken by me a while back)

I can't recommend Zoigl 🇩🇪 country highly enough. Franz' celebration of village, place and people in this great piece is poetic itself.

Zoigl embodies the wholesomeness we need in our lives.

*Looks at train connections to Windischeschenbach*

A Poetic Act — Zoigl, the Schafferhof, and the Making of Place — Pellicle Communal brewhouses with gear-and-pully mash tuns. Brewing rights that stretch back to the Middle Ages. Wood-fired brew kettles and coolships. All this alone is enough to make Zoigl utterly unique.&nb...

Zoigl! More than just an excellent word, it is a beer and a cultural icon. @tempestinatankard.bsky.social visits his favourite zoiglstubes in the Oberpfalz to learn more.

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100% this. It may also enable then to buy some more bookshelves.

The gang got together to tell you why being a Pellicle Patreon supporter is important and v. good actually!!

My daughter made a matcha ganache yesterday. She overdid the matcha dusting so her first mouthful nearly ended up on me.

A case of bottled beer from the Chiltern Brewery

Had to try the latest hype brewery following upcoming beer writer @rogerprotz.bsky.social's lovely piece in @pelliclemag.com. Timely delivery and a great range of beers 🍻

This is as much a love letter as it is an article. Fantastic writing, as always, from @rogerprotz.bsky.social and yet another belter of a read in @pelliclemag.com #bskybeer

Missed this at the time but this is one of the best articles about a pub I’ve read. It nails London’s best pub.

David Bailey's Just Beer Things #31 — Bar Stances — Pellicle *** Thank you for reading Pellicle Magazine! We’re able to pay all of our contributors, including David, a fair rate thanks to the kind support of our Patreon subscribers . If you believe in hi...

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David Bailey's Just Beer Things #31 — Bar Stances — Pellicle *** Thank you for reading Pellicle Magazine! We’re able to pay all of our contributors, including David, a fair rate thanks to the kind support of our Patreon subscribers . If you believe in hi...

Turn your Pellicle pages over to the Funnies, David Bailey is back to share more astute observations in the pub!

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Well. I was passing through.

Never Break the Chain — Buckinghamshire’s Chiltern Brewery and Bodger’s Barley Wine — Pellicle It’s the ultimate honour, having a beer named after you. But is it a backhanded compliment when the name in question is Roger’s Bodger’s?

Welcome to the Pellicle gang, @rogerprotz.bsky.social 👑

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The Pellicle Podcast Ep86 — In Simpatico with Manchester’s Blackjack Brew Co. — Pellicle Manchester in the mid-2010s was an electric period in the city’s brewing history, with several modern brewing trailblazers—including Track and Cloudwater —exploding onto the scene. Before either of...

You can stream it via all the main podcast apps. Just search for ‘The Pellicle Podcast’ and hit play on ep86. You can also stream in browser on the @pelliclemag.com site, just visit this link:

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