In 1976, the committee of a working men’s club on a new housing estate in Milton Keynes reneged on a deal to admit women as ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got hobgoblins, rogues and saliva ...

The modern idea of the prohibition-era speakeasy is distorted via cinematic fantasies of the jazz age and by hipsterish ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got dodgy dates, kidney beans and ...

Bristol has a huge number of pubs and a decent number of breweries. If you're in town for a few days or hours, where should ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got etiquette, lager yeast and snow. First, some pub heritage news. CAMRA’s hard working Pub Heritage Group ...

This post was made possible by the support of Patreon subscribers like Nick Moyle and Sue Hart whose encouragement justified us spending several days of our free time researching and writing. If you ...

You can’t have cops without robbers, or Batman without the Joker, and so the story of the revitalisation of British beer needs its bad guys too. Enter Watney’s. Watney’s (or Watney Mann, or Watney ...

Fred Pearce wrote a series of paperback pub guides in the 1970s including this 52 page run around the pubs of Bristol. We’ve now scanned it and took the PDF out for a test drive around Redcliffe last ...

When we found a yellowing copy of the local CAMRA magazine from 1996 for 50p of course we bought it, because it’s become a valuable record of the city’s beer scene 30 years ago. As we’ve often ...

In 1987, a pub-owning entrepreneur looked at British brewing and decided it wasn’t working. Stylishly packaged ranges of bottled beers trumpeting their purity and quality are easy to find these days.