Darkish orange hazy beer in a two-thirds glass, out of focus bar in background.

Make Time. A deceptively bitter collab between Make Make and Abyss at the Independent, Brighton.

Pints and the Past podcast - Brewery Heritage Welcome to Pints and the Past, a podcast brought to you by The National Brewery Heritage Trust, telling stories of Britain's brewing heritage

New podcast from the National Brewery Heritage Trust: www.breweryheritage.com/podcast/

Why Does Cheap Beer Give You a Worse Hangover? The Science Nobody Talks About

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Community-owned pubs achieving strong survival rates Community-owned pubs are achieving strong long-term survival rates, with Plunkett UK saying local ownership is helping save rural venues from closure.

Community-owned pubs showing strong survival rates into the long term, according to Plunkett UK in the MA: www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2026...

Brilliant!

Great story - and a timely one, too, considering my thing in the i-Paper at the weekend... inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Entries are open for the Great British Pub Awards 2026! greatbritishpubawards.co.uk/live/en/page...

Front door of Open Baladin, Rome.

Front door of The Football Pub, Rome.

Front door of Be.Re, Rome.

Front window of Luppolo Station, Rome, with a glass of pale lager in the foreground.

What's on tap at Rome's top beer spots? My blog has the gen today: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Brewdog failure leaves Lords cricket ground with large debt In 2024 Lords Cricket Ground took the perhaps surprising step of announcing Brewdog has their beer partner for the ground in the 2025 season. Reportedly things went well and 750,000 pints were sold…

Howzat. The failure of Brewdog has left Lords Cricket Ground with a £420,000 debt they won't be able to recover
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Yes, there are a few of those.

Haven’t really paid attention! I’ll try to now.

Front page of 7 Days supplement with the cover line ‘Wet to your whistle! Britain’s best railway pubs.’.

I’m in iWeekend today with a pick of pubs by railway stations. And right now I just happen to be on a train!

Beer Today: 22 years of independent beer news - Beer Today After 22 years of continuous publication, Beer Today is set to end in its present form, on 21st May, publisher Darren Norbury has announced

Sad news about @beertoday.bsky.social. Darren does an amazing job. Please chip in on Patreon if you can, and see whether we can keep it going in some form: beertoday.co.uk/2026/04/16/b...

Interior of the Star in Bath showing paneled walls, fireplace with mirror, books, a stowed shove-ha'penny board, a wooden stool by a small table and an open door leading into another bar area with settle-style seating.

'...what we feel is a “a good pub” ... has, over decades and perhaps centuries, been layered with accretions of details and minor alterations and additions that give it the character we crave' - me on 'Somewhere to sit' from the Propel archive: www.philmellows.com/PhilMellows_...

But, sorry, not to hand. It’s online I think.

There might be something in Gourvish & Wilson.

A taproom in a railway arch with people at the bar and a brewery just visible behind.

Good to see the former London Fields Brewery and taproom back on its feet as Saint Monday with a good range of beers..

A crescent terrace of red-brick four-storey houses (shops on the ground floor) viewed from a gable-end on which is painted a bearded man in a woolly hat gazing down at a small bird perched on his index finger while another appears about to land on his shoulder.

There's a lot of free art to see on our streets, Kate discovers for our latest Substack newsletter, and that includes the walls of pubs, @philmellows.bsky.social notes: britishbeerbreaks.substack.com/p/spread-you...

My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷

Understandable, given the paucity of Bass in the capital.

It's the Flowerpot in Wood Street, Walthamstow, which might disappoint you even more. But it's a pub close to my heart - and you don't get a lot of Bass round those parts!

Thanks! That’s just how I found it on my last visit. Thirty years ago I was a regular.

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Please pop over the road and check on the Bass in the Flowerpot. Interested to know if it’s on, and any good.

This is true. Posh folk like Sitwell have an uncomfortable relationship with working class culture (an oxymoron in their eyes, I suspect).

Pint of Thornbridge Wild Swan extra pale ale in foreground. Pub scene with big windows in background.

That’s @thornbridge.bsky.social Fargate ticked off.

A paperback copy of A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley.

I just went into town for some tomatoes and came back with a book.

Interesting question…

Yeah, nice bloke.

Peter Coulson Peter Coulson 6 August 1943 to 27 March 2026Peter, a founder member of the British Guild of Beer Writers, died peacefully at home in Gloucestershire after a short illness. A specialist licensing lawye...

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