Quite an interesting read here from Ed Wray. Well worth looking at IMO.

The Burton Union system lives! Great to see this happening so soon - and looking forward to trying the beer, of course!

Top five reasons for pub and restaurant booking no-shows | The Morning Advertiser morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2024/0…

Very excited to be writing something on pub crawls at the moment and great to use a quote from the excellent Pellicle article “Between Triumph and Disaster: the joy of pub crawls” to kick it off! #pubcrawls

Pre-pack latest - BuxtonBrewery has been sold to a company known only as 'Happy Place Investors'. All circa 50 members of staff transferred to newco.

Its directors are listed on companies house as Timothy and Jeremy Middleton.

No idea who they are yet. Sorry 🤷‍♂️

Who owns Ruby Murray? 'Dishoom in legal battle over rhyming slang for curry' | The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/1….

Shame on The Guardian for repeating this lie without challenging it. theguardian.com/society/articl… the main bulk of this is the £21 billion figure calculated 21 years ago and since comprehensively disproven fullfact.org/news/does-brit…

What happened to that naive sense of adventure? ⁦Pete Brown⁩ relaunches his blog in a positive frame of mind. petebrown.net/2024/05/17/let…

hello have a mid afternoon j’adore le plonk on drinking & drunkenness & taste dictated by control

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That's, um, busy.

I picketed this door, in Stratford E15, 45 years ago *gulp* #nocontextdoors (well, a little bit of context).

Share sales have slowed, we knew this would happen, but we also know that there are lots of people who pledged to buy shares who are yet to do so and still a lot of people out there thinking about investing.

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Another domino falls - d'Oude Maalderij brewery and adjoining brewpub is for sale.

There’s gathering momentum behind the feeling that the squeeze we’ve been anticipating in Belgian brewing has finally arrived in 2024

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Just read the word “dropped” and thought something had been discontinued rather than introduced. Sort your language out, please, modern people.

I suppose this might mean Gallo could bring it to the UK - but I’m not sure about that brand name.

'If litres were metres, then Guinness’ UK on-trade volume is the height of The Shard with London Black just a Labrador standing dolefully beside it.' Laura Hadland for Pellicle on Anspach & Hobday Brewery London Black: pelliclemag.com/home/2024/5/8/…

Study finds alcoholic strengths fell as a result of new 3.4% duty threshold - and prices per unit of alcohol rose.

My blog about the Public House 2030 event @PubAid #beer - 'Cheers to the Future: Public House 2030 Event Ignites Hope and Strategies for Preserving UK Pubs Beyond the Decade' pubaid.co.uk/news/cheers-to…

Following the release of Local Legends: The Hidden Pubs of London, authors Horst A Friedrichs and John Warland take db behind the scenes of capturing the capital’s “backstreet boozers”.

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