Opinion
Topical articles and pieces from a personal point of view.
Beware of fake news about pubs
You may have seen the headline screaming “Government tells pubs to serve warm beer” to counter rising energy costs. This, of course, looks like anothe...
No room for complacency
“There’s no room for complacency” – they were the wise words of CAMRA’s national chairman Joe Goodwin when he addressed annual meetings in the 1970s....
Threat to life and limb
Many of you will have heard of the London Beer Flood of 1814. At least eight people were killed by a veritable tsunami of beer that was released onto...
Manchester’s better
The Hare and Hounds serves two beers on cask: Ossett White Rat and Holt’s Bitter. The latter – brewed less than a mile away at the Joseph Holt brewery...
Community pubs – a beacon of light in the gloom
The last few days have thrown up a tumult of events to rock the UK’s brewing scene: the sad passing of Des de Moor one of the best beer writers in the...
Cornish beer from Burton?
The global brewers have set out their priorities – to promote their lager brands at the expense of cask beer. As reported in What’s Brewing, Molson Co...
Why beer beats coffee for social cohesion
There’s a coffee shop near me that’s a relic of a time before improved transport links made this part of South-East London unaffordable for most poten...
Pub snack perfection
So, I was sat recently in my local with a good pint and a packet of a popular, crunchy, bacon-flavoured snack, which by the way is suitable for vegeta...
How pubs help us to mourn
It was a battleship-grey January afternoon but the mood for one man inside the pub was even more ashen. While the fruit machines luridly flashed and l...
Des de Moor – a man of many words
Des de Moor, who died this month, was a phenomenon. He was a prolific writer about beer and took part in beer judging events in many countries. He del...
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