If you were designing a counter for the service of beer would you put a row of posts between the person serving and the ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got deaths, rebirths and football ...

We revived The Session for a one-off event to celebrate the work of the late Martyn Cornell, asking people to write something ...

Porter is a dark beer, right? Pretty much black. Well, that was not always the case, as the late Martyn Cornell explains in ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got fruit lager, TV ads and AK.

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 ...

When Moor Beer owner Justin Hawke posted in support of the Israeli military, and criticised music festival attendees for pro-Palestinian and anti-IDF sentiments, he pulled the rug out from under his ...

The Markham Arms in 1976 © Klaus Hiltscher, used with permission. MAIN IMAGE: The Markham Arms in 1976 © Klaus Hiltscher, used with permission. The architect and ...

People keep telling us that Hoegaarden, the famous Belgian wheat beer, is crap these days. So why do we enjoy it every time we drink it? It might be nostalgia, of course. Hoegaarden was one of the ...

Two questions: first, what the hell happened to Usher’s of Trowbridge? And secondly, how much research can you do into this question without visiting Trowbridge or, indeed, leaving your house at all?

The Alpine Gasthof in Rochdale is something of a mystery. Why is there a replica of a German building in Lancashire? When was it built? And who designed it? We wrote the first version of this post in ...

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.