We all know that in the UK if you want to play darts you head to the pub. But where did this association between pubs and darts begin?

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pub influencers, brewery sales and buzzers. We usually start these round-ups with an item or two of beer ...

Modern tourism is often defined by a desire to see, visit, eat and drink the best a city has to offer. But everyone has a ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Leeds, Manchester, Chicago and more.

You can’t have cops without robbers, or Batman without the Joker, and so the story of the revitalisation of British beer needs its bad guys too. Enter Watney’s. Watney’s (or Watney Mann, or Watney ...

When musician and comedian Robin Allender asked on Twitter “What are your favourite descriptions of pubs in novels or poems?” it made us realise just how many of these we’ve collected over the years.

In 1987, a pub-owning entrepreneur looked at British brewing and decided it wasn’t working. Stylishly packaged ranges of bottled beers trumpeting their purity and quality are easy to find these days.

Fred Pearce wrote a series of paperback pub guides in the 1970s including this 52 page run around the pubs of Bristol. We’ve now scanned it and took the PDF out for a test drive around Redcliffe last ...

Smiles Brewery came and went, leaving small traces of itself all over Bristol. As is so often the case, however, it is the breweries that failed in living memory whose stories are hardest to trace.

The married landlord and landlady, the stout yeoman of the bar and his good lady wife, Basils and Sybils, used to dominate British pub life. We were reminded of this when a friend gave us yet another ...

For a beer with a national profile Thornbridge Jaipur can be surprisingly hard to find on draught. That’s a shame because it’s still wonderful. We came across it at The Old Fish Market in Bristol last ...

Bristol has a huge number of pubs and a decent number of breweries. If you’re in town for a few days or hours, where should you go to drink? We’re asked for advice on this all the time and in 2018 ...