In 1976, the committee of a working men’s club on a new housing estate in Milton Keynes reneged on a deal to admit women as ...

Bristol has a huge number of pubs and a decent number of breweries. If you're in town for a few days or hours, where should ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got hobgoblins, rogues and saliva ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got dodgy dates, kidney beans and ...

The modern idea of the prohibition-era speakeasy is distorted via cinematic fantasies of the jazz age and by hipsterish ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got etiquette, lager yeast and snow. First, some pub heritage news. CAMRA’s hard working Pub Heritage Group ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got rogues, underdogs and cheats. Sometimes, we hear about American breweries closing and think, oh, that’s ...

Fred Pearce wrote a series of paperback pub guides in the 1970s including this 52 page run around the pubs of Bristol. We’ve now scanned it and took the PDF out for a test drive around Redcliffe last ...

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 we found a yellowing copy of the local CAMRA magazine from 1996 for 50p of course we bought it, because it’s become a valuable record of the city’s beer scene 30 years ago. As we’ve often ...

In December 1989, 60-year-old, 20-stone Ronald Henry Fincham stripped naked and climbed into a vat of beer at the brewery in Romford, where he drowned. He was celebrating 25-years service at the ...