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Some drinkers may not fully appreciate it, yet cask beer is one of Britain’s greatest contributions to the world’s gastronomy, and as such, appreciated by beer lovers worldwide.
After all, it possesses all the qualities to merit such praise: it is ut...
Jacopo Mazzeo
This is the final part of our deep dive into heritage brewing, following on from the basic introduction and a case study looking at the Victorian tower brewery at Hook Norton. It is, hopefully, the most definitive guide to the union sets, both past a...
Laura Hadland
The self-appointed drinks industry regulator treads the fine line between frustrating the breweries, the government and the anti-alcohol lobby. And to be fair they’re doing a pretty good job; all things considered.
Illutrations by Christine Jopling
Steve Dunkley
In the introduction to heritage brewing, we considered how brewers make use of historic recipes, traditional methods and heritage ingredients to make their beer. Now we focus on a case study – the rare story of an independent brewery that has survive...
Laura Hadland
Brewing in the UK is evidenced as far back as the Iron Age, but when we talk about heritage brewing, it is usually a reference to traditional beer making that has been preserved over the past couple of centuries. Modern brewers chose to make use of h...
Laura Hadland
At the bar I work at there are twenty-two lines. Three are for cider, one is for wine, sixteen are for kegged beer and two are for cask. The cask lines sit separately from the rest, they look different from the other lines and are interacted with dif...
Rachel Hendry
Take a dive into modern history, 2007. It's the year the first iphone was released, it's when the final installment in the Harry Potter series was published, but most importantly for pubs it was the year the Smoking Ban was introduced.
Steve Dunkley...
Steve Dunkley
If ever there was an example of unintended consequences then the Beer Orders is it.
Illustrations by Christine Jopling.
Steve Dunkley
A Pint of Love: Yr Heliwr
Yr Heliwr had been closed for a decade, and the Nefyn community rallied together to save their precious local pub in 2018. After an impressive fundraising campaign the pub reopened in 2021, becoming the community’s vital hub...
Where Community Grows
Here is our second film in their community owned pub documentary series, this time focusing on the Travellers Rest in Skeeby, North Yorkshire.
The Travellers Rest was bought by volunteers and the Skeeby Community Pub Society in...
pubs
beer
Steve Dunkley brings you the third part of this Regulatory History series, with this article on Government Ale. He takes you through about the how the grain shortages properly impacted the production of beer during WW1, and what the Government attemp...
Steve Dunkley
Antwerp Arms: More Than A Pub
This is the first episode of our new three-part community pubs documentary series, celebrating people who have banded together to save their much-loved locals.
The first installment focuses on the Antwerp Arms in Tottenh...
Steve Dunkley takes you through the alcohol temperance movement, and how that impacted government decisions during World War One around alcohol consumption in pubs.
Illustrations by Christine Jopling
Steve Dunkley