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Pete Brown

@petebrownbeer.bsky.social
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Writer, speaker, consultant, mainly on beer, pubs, food, drink, social history. petebrown.net patreon.com/petebrownbeer Agent Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates.

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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A week today! We’re getting the Lancaster Music Festival going with beer and music pairing. Includes a beer I “helped” Lancaster Brewery develop. Get your tickets here - www.ticketsource.com/lancastermus...
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"TASTING NOTES: Pairing Beer and Music" at The Stonewell Tap
Tickets are now available for TASTING NOTES: Pairing Beer and Music at The Stonewell Tap, Lancaster on Thursday 8th October 2026 at 5:30PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your ti...
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pretty disgusting comments from Labour MP Jenny Ridell-Carpenter at the @labouruk.bsky.social conference this week, who equates a liking of dog-friendly country pubs with real ale (which she wrongly described as warm) with being on the far-right, at the same time as saying such pubs don’t exist.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s baaaack! Start your engines.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because it’s Wednesday.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Had a busy year of events this year. Just two more to go in October! If you're anywhere near Lancaster on Thursday 8th October, or Sheffield Wednesday 21st October, come and drink some beer and listen to some tunes! (And me.) www.petebrown.net/events/
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Events Archive - Pete Brown
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
See? It’s trying to kill us.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This week in @thetimes.com - what makes a beer "premium"? Why do brewers care about it so much? Does anyone else? (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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What’s a premium beer — and does it really mean it’s better?
Whether or not it’s worth paying for expensive beers is all in the eye of the beer-holder
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A symphony of stone fruit on top of some light, gooey caramel. The new Fullers Vintage Ale, out this week. Yes, my camera angle has got wonkier. Last two beers were 8.4%.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Best before 28 September 2231, apparently. Nice.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh, go on then.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To Brewers Hall, London for the Future of Cask seminar. Does cask have a future? Of course it does! We just need to figure out what that looks like. And then go and drink some cask.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cracking weekend at Abergavenny Food Festival matchuing beer and music for 200 thirsty punters. Thanks to Wye Valley Brewery and Antur Brew Co for helping with beers, to the festival, and for a new-to-me audience for drinking, laughing and neurosciencing on a sunny Saturday afternoon!
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Looking for to reading this! Lara has been one a formidable historian.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This week in @thetimes.com (digital only this time) the revived beer brands coming back to life. Often better than the originals? Or empty nostalgia? (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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Boddingtons, Double Diamond and the old beers coming back to life
Déjà brew? Our expert welcomes the clever revival of some historic favourites
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Distressingly young version of me in this.
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Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Deep socio-political dive into pub history, 2004. Commentary myself, @petebrownbeer.bsky.social, Rowan Pelling, late Jeremy Hardy, Landlords. Covering rich archive, @camraofficial.bsky.social, monopolies&mergers, pubcos pub name battles. Warning: some unpleasant sexist archive.
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BBC Four - Timeshift, The History of Pubs
Examining the core values of this definitively British institution.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So beautiful.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This week in @thetimes.com - yeah, sure, the packaging doesn't matter to you. It’s only the beer inside you care about. What’s outside is “just marketing”. But how do you spot that beer in the first place? A short piece on good beer packaging (paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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How beer design went wild — and our experts’ favourite labels
Our beer expert Pete Brown and art director Dan Biddulph on the beer branding that has caught their eye
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Suicide is the leading cause of death for 16–35s in the UK — the highest rates in 30 years. Young lives are being failed. Please can you sign the petition calling for more investment in proven support that saves young lives. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save young lives from suicide
Suicide is the leading killer of young people in the UK. Every day, an estimated 300 to 450 young people aged 16 to 35 attempt suicide, with rates now at their highest level in 30 years (Office for Na...
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hell yes. It was a long time ago. I can’t remember if I was in an office overlooking Hyde Park, London, where I worked, watching in terror with my coworkers as the whole thing unfolded, or if I was heroically digging bodies out of the rubble with my bloodied bare hands. Dodgy memory these days.
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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mornin’ Aged 34 and 33 respectively at the time (1982).
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Saw this on instagram. It is a real ad. Start an actual business with NO KNOWLEDGE and no experience. This is where we’re at now. People actually believing. This great con, this pyramid scheme, that you can succeed brilliantly in a field where you have no talent or knowledge whatsoever, because AI.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. [Since everyone is quote posting vs actually RTing this]
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pubs for the People book launch 📆 22nd October 📍Waterstones, Trafalgar Square In conversation with @petebrownbeer.bsky.social Come one, come all to discuss nationalism, pubs, the good life and more 🍻📚 www.waterstones.com/events/pubs-...
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We live in a world where fascist protest is not breaking the law, but holding up a sign saying “I oppose genocide” is terrorism. Fuck me.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This week in @thetimes.com (online only this week I think) the six best beers in Sainsburys. Poor selection overall, but the Taste The Difference beers are well worth seeking out. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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The six best beers to buy from Sainsbury’s
Our expert reckons the range of drinks on offer at the UK’s second-biggest supermarket is a tad disappointing — but there are still some crackers on the shelves
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Exactly this.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What’s the most bizarre, eccentric rule you've ever encountered imposed by a landlord in a pub?
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just realised you can’t be a pessimist unless you’re an optimist first. If you don’t have high hopes to begin with, how can those hopes be crushed by the grinding inevitably of fate?
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This week in @thetimes.com, celebrating the squeezed middle - eight of Britain’s best traditional family brewers. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Et tu, Waitrose? It’s staggering that this still needs saying, but LAGERS ARE BEERS.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
THE WHOLE POINT of a date night meal is that it is not easy or fast. Cooking for someone you love is an act of love. It should take time. It should stretch you as a cook. If chefs don’t understand this, they should stick to cooking for punters they obviously hate.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just googled date night summer recipes and wondering now why so many celebrity chefs seem to have no feelings whatsoever for their partners. Orzo and tomatoes? Ready in ten minutes? Oh, come on. IT’S DATE NIGHT.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Morning!
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I fucking love Green Man.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
45 mins from now, this tent will be full and I’ll be on stage, pairing the beers and bands of the Green Man Festival. Don’t know how this built to an event with a 1200-strong audience who now shout out the punchlines of my jokes, but I’m so grateful for the best day of my professional year.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I feel seen. www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/food/di...
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Disposable barbecues should be banned, agree Serious Men of Barbecue
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This week in @thetimes.com - when is Italian pilsner not Italian pilsner? It doesn't really make sense - but not much about beer styles does. (paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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The six best Italian lagers, chosen by our expert
Italian pilsner is the popular new craft beer style. Pete Brown picks the best imports and UK-brewed versions
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 16/08/2026
Canada has officially started building the wall at the U.S. border🇨🇦😂 Budget: a few trees Construction crew: 1 beaver 🦫 Payment: maple syrup 🍁 Sorry for the inconvenience, eh? 😂 #Canada #CanadianHumour #SheShed
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John Clarke @beer4john.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is currently one of the best things happening in UK beer (and lots more besides) - everyone should get behind it.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This week in @thetimes.com - A comparison of “pub food” as described by celebrity chefs in recipe books, and the real thing. Is there more to life than burger of pizza? Or is that specifically what people go to the pub for? (Paywall.) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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Here’s how pubs can call time on boring grub
We need a change from all the chips, pizza and burgers — and our expert knows just the thing…
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Credit where it’s due to Norfolk’s mosquitoes and other shitty little insect bastards. Eight hours in the garden, and not a single bite on my exposed arms and face. But my thighs, clad in thick denim with long jockey shorts beneath, are bitten to fucking buggery.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Please see the whole thread. Human beings are far more amazing than fucking shitty AI will ever be. And far less harmful. And nicer. And better company. And…
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Glad to see opposition to this ludicrous proposal but we haven’t been ordering at the bar “for centuries”. That came in around the 1840s. Table service before then.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Oh, human authors are not obsolete? Well thanks a fucking bunch for that. Is the human author of this piece twelve years old? Or is the author of this piece even human? Guardian has been my paper for forty years. Now it’s shilling for AI, it can do fuck itself.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There I was thinking only shit, talentless wannabe musicians would resort to getting AI to write slop songs for them…
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This week in @thetimes.com - it’s summer. It’s hot. It’s time for cider! Here are six that are new to me this year. Oliver’s has always been special. But subscribe to The Newt - sensational! (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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Six great new ciders, chosen by our expert
Forget the plastic flagons and flavoured brands — instead, try these grown-up drinks from small producers, says Pete Brown
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newbarracktavern.bsky.social @newbarracktavern.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
HAPPY YORKSHIRE DAY 😀 #familyrunpub #familybusiness #publife #supportlocal #S6 #Hillsborough #Sheffield #traditionalpub #properpub #realalepub #realcider #loveyourlocal #swfc #swfcfamily
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I just love how joyfully weird severance gets in its second season.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For fuck’s sake, he’s going to kill us all one way or another.
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