Community Pub Hero Awards

These awards have been organised jointly by PubAid and the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group (APPBG), with…

Pub news – March 2021

Where I give a current description of a pub in this column, it is based on…

Protecting our pubs – The Tipperary

I’m sure that many readers will know the Tipperary, 66 Fleet Street (EC4Y 1HT). Previously called…

Health and wellbeing – March 2021

Staying at Home Apparently more people took part in Dry January this year than ever before.…

Trade News – March 2021

New ventures In late January came the announcement of the formation of two new pub owning…

Farewell to Achel

This is a sad story because it sees the end of a part of brewing history.…

Trouble House Halt

I’ve known of Trouble House Halt for many years because it is mentioned in the Flanders…

Introduction to the April/May 2021 edition

Welcome to the April/May 2021 edition of London Drinker. There are two major events to report…

Brewery news – Jan 2021

London Brewers fear for the future The London Brewers Alliance (LBA) was set up in 2010…

A dog has its day

One of my Christmas beers was Sambrook’s Brown Dog Riot.  Many beers these days have strange…