Posts by: Laura Hadland
Inside the Bass House
I read the story of Vic Long this month. He was celebrating his 50th anniversary behind the bar at the Ship Inn in Portishead, Somerset. Some of the r...
The golden age of cider and perry
It was with great pleasure that I attended the inaugural Artisan Cheese and  Cider Summit at Little Pomona just outside Bromyard recently. It was one...
A Brief Encounter
I had a lovely weekend at the Ludlow Food Festival recently. I was there to give a beer tasting on behalf of Slow Food Ludlow, introducing my guests t...
Can the Crooked House rise again?
There has rightly been vocal outrage about the sorrowful demise of the Crooked House in Himley this month. The pub was sold from the Marston’s portfol...
Starting a new thiologue
I first heard about thiols at the Great British Beer Festival’s Learn and Discovery bar last year. I had ostensibly signed up to volunteer because if...
Sharing the lager love
As a child of the 1980s and a fledgling beer drinker in the early 2000s, I don’t mind telling you that I have consumed a fair amount of macro lager in...
Hop on board the sustainability train
I recently sipped a new release pale ale from Bristol’s Wiper and True. Upside Down (5 per cent ABV) positively explodes with tropical and stone fruit...
Use it or lose it
The news of pub and brewery closures continues apace this year. Independents and freeholds that were battered by lockdown and then a wave of price inc...
Ladies in the lounge, gentlemen at the bar
Having moved to Shropshire recently, one of my new locals is the Loggerheads in Shrewsbury. A quirky, historic and reputedly haunted (aren’t they all?...
A tribute to pub dogs
One of the best gigs I ever had was managing the social media for a brewpub that wanted to tell the world it was dog friendly. I spent a few sunny spr...
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