Blogs about Beer

Recently I was stood outside Huddersfield Railway Station waiting for my Replacement Bus Service. I was eating much needed food from a nearby fast food outlet and contemplating my next move. Other match-goers had gone …

Beer Insider is pleased to bring you a new monthly column, supported by Black Sheep Brewery, involving leading figures in pubs and brewing, along with the industry’s wider eco-system, revealing the pubs that have meant …

Farra Funda is a tiny brewpub in the bohemian Barra Funda district of São Paulo. The draw here is that one of the owners is Dubliner Phil Keatley, who packed up his Crafty Bear brand …

Photos by Jonny Garrett This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Game Changers” series of podcasts. Garrett is the co-founder of The Craft Beer Channel and the author of …

“Can you recommend a pub near Bristol Temple Meads with good food?” Err, actually, we’re not sure we can – which is quite strange, really. A decade ago, it felt as if most pubs offered …

All beer geeks like to occasionally have something that reminds us of when we were first getting into craft beer, so I enjoyed seeing some proper Beer Discourse triggered by a Matt Curtis article yesterday. …

It’s really good, this whole passage of time thing. It really is. Isn’t it. It is… isn’t it? Fine. Face it. The holidays are over. OVER! But that doesn’t mean the celebrations are over. For …

This final round-up of pubs from this year’s Winter Warmer Wander (Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark, strong and festive beers) covers Stockport. And Hazel Grove, and one pub in Heaton Chapel …

Here’s a photo that will appeal to old readers in particular, but this trio of bottles is a recent purchased picked up from my local Home Bargains store before Christmas. Confused? You ought to be, …

(Ed. Note: I’ve been writing about beer for 15 years now, and I feel as though it’s time to see if we can’t condense this knowledge down into useful information that might help explain how …

I was in London last week for a few days and decided on a whim to have one entire day - or thereabouts - just drinking cask. "Unwise" I hear you say and of course …

A Nice Quiet Local On a bright November morning, Sekforde Street is London as Richard Curtis imagines it. A steady stream of City University students amble northwards, past the Georgian terraces of Sekforde Street and …

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 …