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David Desi Pubs Dason

@davidjesudason.bsky.social
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Michael Jackson Beer Writer of the Year (2023 and 2025). Beer book of the year Desi Pubs (2023). Journalist and Substacker: davidjesudason.substack.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 01/10/2026
If anyone is in touch with any of the local trans inclusive safe spaces orgs around the country can you reach out to them and ask if they would be willing to speak to me over the next day or so please. I have opened my DMs.
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Going to walk from Brockley to London Fields after my lunch. It’s a dangerous walk because of the many god tier pubs I’ll pass (or not pass)
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can confirm I’m being interviewed in the Red Lion Sunday for a BBC1 One Show feature on desi pubs to be screened before Christmas
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love how just as I’m about to leave a pub Toffee will fall asleep. Honestly it’s the best (maybe not for my liver or wallet)
Toffee, seven months
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell you what can get in the bin: people on Threads shaming parents who take their kids to taprooms
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oneoneoneone @oneoneoneone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was from a couple of years back but it still freaks me out. (The mushroom in the picture is known as the "Destroying Angel")
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fun bedtime reading. Google: ‘AI mushroom deaths’
( Nature
Al-mediated risks and real-life challenges in mushroom foraging - pj Science of...
Feb 24, 2026
L MeatEater
California Reports
Unprecedented Outbreak of Wild Mushroom...
May 21, 2026
Global Times
Boy almost dies after family eats poisonous mushrooms that Al identified as...
Jul 10, 2026
NBC News
Poisonings from 'death cap' mushrooms in California prompt warning against...
Dec 9, 2025
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fun bedtime reading. Google: ‘AI mushroom deaths’
( Nature
Al-mediated risks and real-life challenges in mushroom foraging - pj Science of...
Feb 24, 2026
L MeatEater
California Reports
Unprecedented Outbreak of Wild Mushroom...
May 21, 2026
Global Times
Boy almost dies after family eats poisonous mushrooms that Al identified as...
Jul 10, 2026
NBC News
Poisonings from 'death cap' mushrooms in California prompt warning against...
Dec 9, 2025
Feature
Extraction
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A timeline of five pints of DIPA
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They’re talking about allowing heritage players play for India’s football team. I’m aged 48 and don’t play much but I can still dream, right?
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Had @neptunebrewery.bsky.social Marzen (cask, 5.8%) at @theshirkersrest.bsky.social yesterday. Absolutely banging, beer of the year so far - so good it would’ve been a crime to stop supping and take a photo
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My favourite thing posh people do is when confronted with a gap in their knowledge repeat what you’ve said with such disdain that you question the worth of it immediately. It must’ve been a core subject at posh school
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
‘Heineken’s AI-powered personalised draught tap can create more than 100 beers before it enslaves humanity’
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Going to Baarle-Hertog next months if you have any recommendations?
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A cunning stunt would be to pay workers, tho
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think ‘cunning stunts’ has to be beer’s greatest spoonerism
UNDER NEW
OWNERSHIP
NO MORE
CUNNING STUNTS.
JUST GREAT BEER.
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So… my dog somehow ate some conkers and bemused passersby are asking why I’m walking him carrying a bucket
Simpsons meme where Homer Sr is saying ‘so I notice your home smells of feces [sic]’ because Toffee is both [sic] and [sick]
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Jeff Evans @jeffevanswriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Six days to go before publication. Orders being taken now. If you'd like a signed copy, please use the link below. It’ll be post-free too! Otherwise, available via all the usual retailers and online suppliers. shorturl.at/dIdDW
Stack of the book Rock & Pop on British TV: The Definitive History by Jeff Evans. Foreword by Jools Holland. Signed copies can be ordered via jeffevans.co.uk.
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Phil Cook @beerdiary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It simply shouldn't be possible to buy a company out of administration without making good the debts it owes to its employees.
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s always the workers that get screwed www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655828...
heraldscotland.com
Administrators says 'insufficient funds' to pay BrewDog workers owed wages
Staff owed £489,000 in wages and holiday pay will receive nothing from BrewDog Retail's administration after squatter removals, collapsed…
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Save money* by eating beetroot at 66p a bag! *Additional costs include: £1 for oven use, £10 to buy an edible lunch and £10,000 to redecorate your house after the prep
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Have to admit I once went to a nightclub with a QuarkXPress T-shirt in my 20s
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And I thought beer geeks were insufferable
BBC headline: ‘Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?’

With a photoshopped photo of Martin from the Simpsons with a Wang Computers T-shirt
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dear internet. Don't call me. Don't come by my house. We're done
Advert saying ‘PDFs in 2016: you send a file. PDFs in 2026: you send an experience.’
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dear internet. Don't call me. Don't come by my house. We're done
Advert saying ‘PDFs in 2016: you send a file. PDFs in 2026: you send an experience.’
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big fan of baffling (AI) job adverts like this one
Content Specialist
Experis
Apply >
Start Date: ASAP
Day Rate: £400 per day Outside IR35
Purpose of the role
To support the transformation of the client production and content operations, achieving optimal performance through the defining and delivery of operating standards, change management and of continuous improvement initiatives.
Coordinating/orchestrating content production efforts of centrally developed content for them to be used effectively
and compliantly by markets globally, while ensuring alignment and consistency with the globally developed communication materials.David Brent quoting some of that nonsense
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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tilray already in trouble...
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘Where’s my fucking beer?’
Toffee with an orange juice soda
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stacey possibly is the hardest working person in beer. Even he struggles with the huge mountain of graft required to make a bar in a new-build work
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New Vault City collab
Andrew Watermelon scented toilet paper
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Vince Raison @vincerai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He's doing good things while while swimming against the tide. A great guy and a fine brewer.
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, this time with a couple of themes around (a) Oktoberfest and (b) making space for beer and pubs in communities. boakandbailey.com/2026/09/news...
boakandbailey.com
News, nuggets and longreads 12 September 2026: Penda’s Fen
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got hop farming, Nottingham, and Cluedo. First, some news from the climate change frontline: the last commer...
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My 9/11 memory is I worked in a pub that evening and the boss was a Cpt Mainwaring-type who got drunk, tried to close early but wasn’t prepared for the near uprising that caused among the locals
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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is v interesting on the challenges of running a hospitality business in a new development.
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Beer Guide London @beerguidelondon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Having visited Bouldr Bar last year and then again this year the work that Stacey has put in to it is evidence of his passion and belief.
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The Green Goddess Pub @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stacey Ayeh has suffered so much in just trying to bring a much needed amenity to similarly long suffering Thamesmead while local authorities and housing associations just busy themselves getting in the way.
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 11/09/2026
This is a great local bar.
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Amethyst Heels / Ruvani de Silva @amethystheels.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Essential reading beerfolks - beer is and should be all about community and Stacey is the embodiment of that - excellent work @davidjesudason.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One regular at the bar messaged me saying: ‘The café, bar and gallery they mention are all the same place. And it’s tiny. Everything else, apart from Bouldr, is empty. Stacey has done wonders there’
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stacey possibly is the hardest working person in beer. Even he struggles with the huge mountain of graft required to make a bar in a new-build work
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Whenever Burnham is asked to comment on fascism
Picture of Andy Burnham with the loading SMS message
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NOPE
New Yorker headline screaming: "Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back?"
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Farage: ‘The burqa is a symbol of an increasingly divided Britain’ What divided Britain actually looks like:
Fash at Port of Dover
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Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 09/09/2026
Absolutely brilliant stuff from Notts Forest's biggest fan Pete Blackburn. When are we all going to Nottingham? www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/9/...
pelliclemag.com
We've Got To Live — Nottingham's Thriving, Defiant Beer Scene — Pellicle
Just a few decades ago, Nottingham’s skyline was punctuated by iconic brewery buildings producing beers that were part of the city’s DNA. The famous Shipstone’s star, and the Robin Hood silhouette of ...
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
💯 agree
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
‘I had a Cavalier King Charles. It died aged 16 years old and in its last few years I had to carry it’ So when I’m in my mid-60s I’ll be pushing him around in a pushchair
Toffee, now aged 7 months
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dear media. ‘Far-right activists’ are fascists. Don’t rebrand the reprehensible
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The Shirker's Rest @theshirkersrest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
S.L.O.B. (South London Orbit Bitter) will be launching at Shirkers on Wed 16 Sept - we’re very excited to try this!
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reform are fucked. It’s cut through to day-time drinkers in the pub
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