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, s...

“Tradition is the handing down of the flame and not the worshipping of ashes.” It’s unclear who said this first, but Gustav Mahler, the Austro-Bohemian composer, said it best. He was supposedly parap...

Finally, some good news from the Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Co Tour of Destruction.

That’s the best seat in the pub, next to the fireplace, where you can listen to the gentle sound of crackling logs, benefiting from the warmth it gives off. Raspoutine, the pub’s gorgeous ginger cat, ...

All they want to do is get out of their wet clothes but the key doesn’t work. As Hannah struggles, Joe stands behind her sniffing the warm, musty air of the corridor. ‘Stinks of mice.’ Hannah tries…

Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?

Ken Grossman remembers the exact field at Roy Farms where he got the Cascade hops for his first batch of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. In 1981, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company had just opened, and he w...

Jay Rayner and a panel of food experts answer questions from Wolverhampton.

“We all wanna know what nobody knows, What the nights of wine and roses hold, For the wine and roses of our souls So we down our drinks in a funnel of friends And we burn our blends right down to the ...

The beer world is full of characters, including many who lived long ago. Imagine being able to sit down with ten of them for a few hours over a beer. Whom from among these vivid characters would you s...

Thomas Hardy's Ale is coming home: the quintessential Barley Wine will be finally available on the British market again thanks to the agreement between…

Back in early 2014 I sent a tweet that would - I think I can safely say - change my life… In it, I stated that I had stupidly agreed to organising a beer festival, even though I hadn’t the faintest i...

It’s a claim you will find repeated in dozens – possibly hundreds – of places: that the so-called “Hymn to Ninkasi”, a poem in the Sumerian language to the goddess of beer, at least 3,900 years old, k...

Adam and James remember one of the most important and beloved figures in the history of aspirational cider.

In this post, I'm discussing the number of breweries and production volumes of top- vs bottom-fermenting breweries in 1890's Prussia.