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Feb 10
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You should start writing about beer and pubs
There’s always room for more people visiting pubs, drinking beer, and sharing their thoughts and observations.
Jan 26
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Looking back on 2025 in beer and pubs
Highlighting the best of our own writing, interesting writing by others, and wrapping up with some conclusions about where British beer is at as we…
Dec 21, 2025
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Reasons to be cheerful about beer in 2025
It’s not all doom and gloom even if (looks out of window) it is literally all gloom. From pubs to breweries, there’s plenty to give us a warm glow.
Nov 20, 2025
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We can’t speak for anyone else but here’s how to attract us to your pub
You’re trying hard, you’re doing everything right – so why is nobody coming to drink in your pub, bar or taproom?
Oct 19, 2025
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Reinvention and redundancy
Pubs, breweries and, uh, massive campaigning organisations can reinvent themselves. Or they can declare themselves redundant.
Sep 24, 2025
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Why aren’t there more clones of cult beers on the market?
Perhaps brewers are too polite to copy each other’s homework. Maybe brewing clones is not really possible. Or it could just be an understandable fear of…
Aug 19, 2025
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When it gets too hot even for a refreshing beer: how heatwaves hit pubs
There's summer, when you want to hang out in a beer garden and drink lager. And there are heatwaves, when you want to hide and chew ice cubes.
Jul 16, 2025
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