Porter and Stout: A Complete History by Martyn Cornell (McFarland, ÂŁ55.66). This is, without doubt, one of the great books about beer, standing proud...
The first time I drank Boddingtons Bitter I refused to leave the pub. I was in Hyde on the edge of Manchester, en route for a meeting with the graphic...
Have Carlsberg, Heineken and other global brewers been rereading George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 where the truth is consigned to a memory hole an...
Beer Festivals: Â A Great British Tradition Laura Hadland, CAMRA Books, ÂŁ15.99 Laura Hadland is not only a fine journalist and beer writer but has also...
I arrived at Round Corner Brewing in Melton Mowbray on the day another small independent brewery had pulled down the shutters. Northern Alchemy in New...
Martyn Cornell, beer writer and acclaimed brewing historian, has died suddenly at the age of 72 on the eve of the publication of his major study of th...
Ken Don, who has died aged 80, was a passionate brewer of traditional beer who also played an important role in saving Maris Otter, considered the fin...
Draught Bass, a legendary Burton pale ale, has been saved from oblivion thanks to tireless campaigning by lovers of the beer. At its peak, Draught Bas...
It’s good news for our beleaguered pubs that they will be able to stay open until one in the morning on 8 May as the country celebrates VE Day – the 8...
Chiltern brewery is doing me the great honour of making a special edition of one of its beers to thank me for my support for independent craft brewing...