On a Friday night in early December, Deptford’s Dog and Bell is Christmas as imagined by a Haribo-addled toddler. A huge resin Santa, grinning merrily in his sleigh, squats in Prince Street outside the pub. A few yards away, an 18-foot fir tree rises from a massive pot that’s been done up| Pellicle
The Government has opened a call for evidence on proposed licensing reforms for pubs, bars and restaurants, including a new National Licensing Policy Framework and condition amnesty. UKHospitality urges operators to engage before the 6 November deadline.| MorningAdvertiser.co.uk
I want Belgian beer to change - because it is a problem* (English version below) *Oftewel: een aanvulling aan Brussels Beer City's "They don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s their...| www.facebook.com
Berlin’s wonderful all-Berliner weisse brewery announced it was closing a few weeks ago (full text included in this post), which gives me an opportunity to repost my article from five years ago about what a wonderful project it was.| Beervana
*Or, a (semi-serious) rebuttal of Boak and Bailey’s “We don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s our problem” Picture this: it’s 1925, and you’re a young English man of means stepping off the train at Gare du Midi for a weekend enjoying what Brussels has to offer. You fancy yourself a| Brussels Beer City
There has been much coverage in the press - almost all of it sensational - in the past few days about the Government's proposals to review a...| tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com
This heartfelt response to a silly post has made us think: what we want from a pub, or taproom, is for it to be open regularly and reliably; to get a human welcome; and for the beer to be good. Events are actually a turn off for us, because they're usually noisy and disrupt our routines. [contains quote post or other embedded content]| Bluesky Social
On a recent trip to Liège we ended up visiting a couple of more modern bars which, although very pleasant, didn’t give us what we want from Belgian beer.| Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog
At the beginning of 2024, after CAMRA announced that the Great British Beer Festival was taking a year off I published a piece on What To Do About Beer Festivals. Since then I’ve been doing researc…| Beer Nouveau
'True, there be many Old Ales (so-called) that be but of this year’s brewing, and deserve but the name of Mild. Yet that Ale which is Old indeed deman| beerfoodtravel.blogspot.com
Well, since we last met… yes, fine… the Red Sox lost last Thursday. But then the Yankees (who beat the Sox… my Sox) got their own butts kicked in the first two games of the next series by the Jays who took it all in game four last night which… sorta made me feel… schadenfreudig? … Continue reading "The Beery News Notes For The Threat Of Frost And The Yanks And Jays In What Might Just Be A Post-Passion World"| A Good Beer Blog
