Spartan Brewery

It’s not unusual for brewery owners to fit in brewing with other jobs but Spartan take…

ESB revisited

What better way can there be to celebrate the 50th birthday of Fuller’s renowned Extra Special…

WhatPub Update 48

WhatPub? Update publishes news items collated by Greater London branches, often from information supplied through the…

Coppa – Coppa Who?

Every so often you get an invite out of the blue. So, when, just before Christmas,…

Football and beer at St Albans City

St Albans City FC (nicknamed The Saints) played host to Hampton & Richmond Borough FC on…

Health and wellbeing

DEFIBRILLATORS IN PUBS I don’t want to cause undue concern but this item, which I picked…

Idle Moments – Feb/March 2022

Hello and welcome to 2022. May I be (very likely, by the time this comes out)…

Book News

I mentioned in the October/November edition that the beer writer and broadcaster Johnny Homer had passed…

Letters – Jan 2022

I’ve been trawling through my anniversary edition of the Good Beer Guide and a couple of…

The Standard Beer Company – a beer at home

The first time I met Milo Oddi he was the manager of the Beer + Burger…