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Beer Today @beertoday.bsky.social · 2d

Highland craft brewer Uile-bheist is retracing centuries of history to bring a rare red lager to the Scottish market. Rare Bird (5.2% ABV) launches today beertoday.co.uk/2025/10/10/r... #beer #beernews #redlager

A rare red lager makes its debut in Scotland - Beer Today

Highland craft brewer Uile-bheist is retracing centuries of history to bring a rare red lager to the Scottish market. Rare Bird (5.2% ABV) launches today

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Beer Breaks @beerbreaks.bsky.social · 2d

There's more to Hastings than 1066 and all that, as @philmellows.bsky.social discovered at last week's Hastings Tap Takeover - there's good beer, characterful pubs and a warm welcome. And it's got art, too, Kate Simon reminds us. britishbeerbreaks.substack.com/p/a-seaside-...

A night-time view through the shopfront windows of Eel & Bear Beer Merchants revealing a well-lit busy huddle of drinkers inside and a beer board on the back wall.

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J Mark Dodds FRSA @jmarkdodds.bsky.social · 6d

My article on the state of the British pub sector and how radical opportunity can be made out of the pubs crisis

Mint Magazine #35 03/10/2025

www.themintmagazine.com/a-few-too-ma...

A few too many? – The Mint Magazine

www.themintmagazine.com

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Will Hawkes @willhawkes.bsky.social · 3d

Improbably, perhaps, Bass has done a collaboration with trendy kitchen wear brand Service Works, launched last night at the Macbeth in Hoxton Street. It’s the latest step in AB InBev’s new promotional campaign for this legendary brand

Two Bass handpumps on the bar at the Macbeth pub in Hoxton Street

A young man wearing one of the Bass/Service Works shirt/jackets

A pint of Bass in the special Service Works glass. Instead of Bass on the triangle, it says ‘Service’

The food served at the event. The Venison Samosa was superb

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David Nilsen @davidnilsenbeer.bsky.social · 3d

New blog post: How to pair Gueuze & wild ales w/craft chocolate. These beers occupy a small niche in the beer ecosystem, but they can pair beautifully w/craft chocolate. Pairing w/these beers can be challenging, but they offer some truly elegant pairings.
www.beantobarstool.com/blog/gueuze-...

Pairings Gueuze and Wild Ales with Craft Chocolate — Bean to Barstool

How do Belgian Gueuzes and Wild Ales pair with craft chocolate? Bean to Barstool host David Nilsen walks through the various expressions of wild fermentations in beer and explains how to pair these es...

www.beantobarstool.com

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Good Chemistry @goodchembrew.bsky.social · 4d

*BIG NEWS*
We’re thrilled to share that long-standing local hospitality group World Famous Dive Bars is acquiring Good Chemistry Brewing from later this month. You probably know their venues – they include Mothers’ Ruin, The Colosseum and the recently-re-opened Croft.
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Bob & Kelly standing in front of the Good Chemistry brew kit with Marc & Paddy from World Famous Dive Bars

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Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 4d

When someone calls a pub an institution, there are always detractors. But we can't think of a single person who wouldn't agree that The Dog & Bell is exactly that.

Will Hawkes joins us again for an insight into Deptford's most beloved pub.

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out — The Dog and Bell in Deptford, London — Pellicle

On a Friday night in early December, Deptford’s Dog and Bell is Christmas as imagined by a Haribo-addled toddler.  A huge resin Santa, grinning merrily in his sleigh, squats in Prince Street out...

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 4d

And still sitting outdoors, as you can see.

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Adrian Tierney-Jones @atjbeer.bsky.social · 4d

Funeral pints and the contemplation of mortality atjpubs.substack.com/p/funeral-pi...

Funeral pints

The contemplation of mortality in the pub

atjpubs.substack.com

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 4d

Me too 😊

Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 4d

This is Left Handed Giant Golden Mild, on @evening-star-pub.bsky.social

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 5d

This is why we need the dialectic. To grasp the potential for change in every moment, to dispel the illusion of permanence. And that’s just the beer.

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 5d

They asked for a response, so I couldn't exactly let them down, could I?

On Belgian beer, Hegelian dialectics, and why Belgium's craft beer turn makes perfect sense.

In response to @boakandbailey.bsky.social: boakandbailey.com/2025/10/we-d...

They don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s their problem* — Brussels Beer City

*Or, a (semi-serious) rebuttal of Boak and Bailey’s “We don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s our problem” Picture this: it’s 1925, and you’re a young English man of means stepping of...

www.beercity.brussels

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 5d

It sure is.

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 5d

"The dislocation of everyday routines during travel facilitated shifts in women’s attitudes, legitimising alcohol consumption in unfamiliar settings." Interesting.

Women & Alcohol (DSN Research Cluster) @womenandalcohol.bsky.social · 5d

Our next online seminar will take place on 6 November at 12.00 midday. Louisa Niesen, European University Institute will speak on 'Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914'. This event is online. More information and how to get the zoom link here:

www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/10/onli...

Online seminar - Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914

Project: Between the drunken ‘mother of destruction’ and the sober ‘angel of the house’.

www.womenandalcohol.net

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 6d

'In search of authenticity in pub culture' | Ayesha Kalaji in the Morning Advertiser www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...

OPINION: In search of authenticity in pub culture

Jordanian-British chef Ayesha Kalaji explores authenticity by blending Middle Eastern flavours with British pub culture in a 17th century Somerset inn.

www.morningadvertiser.co.uk

Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 9d

If you happen to pop into your local newsagent tomorrow morning and happen to pick up a copy of the I-paper you might happen to find a feature on cosy winter pubs in the Weekend magazine, written by me.

Snug at the Flying Childers, Stanton in Peak. Lots of warm brown wood evident, shelves of games, the corner of a small bar and a pint of Bass on the table in the foreground.

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 9d

'BrewDog sells Lost Forest and Highland estate after 250,000 trees die': www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2551414...

BrewDog sells Lost Forest after series of tree-planting controversies

Brewdog has announced it has sold its “Lost Forest” after 250,000 of the trees it planted on the Scottish estate died ...

www.forestryjournal.co.uk

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 10d

Anyone else going to Hastings TTO tomorrow?

Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 10d

Fancy having the cover of your book turned into a T-shirt!

Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 10d

Strange and exciting spot by my lovely @jendeavour.bsky.social - @britishlibrary.bsky.social have made a t-shirt of the front cover of my Tales of the Weird collection, Dead Drunk. And they've done the same for @joparsons.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social!

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Dead Drunk T-shirt

tbc Size Guide Centimeters XS S...

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 10d

That looks amazing, Pam. You should sign it!

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Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 11d

Proper Job is an institution. There, we've said it. Who better to talk about the legacy and impact of this IPA than @atjbeer.bsky.social?

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

A Scanner Dreckly — The Life and Legacy of St. Austell Proper Job IPA — Pellicle

It is a sedate summer’s afternoon in the bar of The Globe in Topsham, five miles outside Exeter. Wimbledon is on the big screen, with the sound turned down, and there are five other customers inside. ...

www.pelliclemag.com

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Beer Breaks @beerbreaks.bsky.social · 12d

In our latest newsletter, Kate takes her shoes and socks off to stroll among Britain’s tidal estuaries while @philmellows.bsky.social fearful of getting wet on the outside chooses to get wet on the inside - with beer, of course
open.substack.com/pub/britishb...

Time and tide, they won't wait

By Kate Simon

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Brighton and Hove News @bhcitynews.bsky.social · 13d

Brighton community pub crowdfunds for £2k oven repair

A community-owned Brighton pub is crowdfunding to raise £2,000 to repair its oven and gas line. The Bevy, in Hillside, Moulsecoomb, said: “It’s no trade secret that hospitality is on its knees. And it’s no secret that the Bevy has always struggled to make ends meet. “If it’s so hard, then why bother? The Bevy […]

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 15d

Terrific resource (thanks to @boakandbailey.bsky.social for the tip)

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 17d

I've written a little script converting the great work done by the national Bass directory (nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com) onto google maps:

www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
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#Bass #GreatStuffThisBass

Bass - Google My Maps

Taken from the national bass directory https://nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com/

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 17d

Congratulations to the Crown Wharf and Joules Brewery - and to all the winners at last night’s Great British Pub Awards www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...

Community pub that blends modern with traditional named best in the UK

The Crown Wharf in Stone, Staffordshire has been named the Great British Pub of the Year 2025 at the Great British Pub Awards. After battling the odds to bring arts back to its community, the pub’s ac...

www.morningadvertiser.co.uk

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