Mark Johnson
@marknjohnson.bsky.social
Beer blogger, Beer Podcaster, Animal carer, Swiftie, Huddersfield Town sufferer, Knuckles the Echidna enthusiast
Birthday outing
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Birthday outing
Speaking of beer nostalgia, currently drinking T/Bridge's version of Masham Ale; a beer that I think I only had previously on the Theakston Brewery Tour circa 2006.
Anyway, this version is smashing.
Anyway, this version is smashing.
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Speaking of beer nostalgia, currently drinking T/Bridge's version of Masham Ale; a beer that I think I only had previously on the Theakston Brewery Tour circa 2006.
Anyway, this version is smashing.
Anyway, this version is smashing.
Crikey - Rogue and Underdog. And this is how I find out. Shows how far away from beer discourse I am at present.
It's like going back to your student town/city and seeing that all the locations that formed your memories have gone. I'm as nostalgic for the 2010s beer scene as I am for 90s football
It's like going back to your student town/city and seeing that all the locations that formed your memories have gone. I'm as nostalgic for the 2010s beer scene as I am for 90s football
GOOD MORNING! Here's our latest round up of news, nuggets and longreads, with important brewery closures, Belgian bars, green hop beers, and lots of other stuff an' all. 🍺🍻
boakandbailey.com/2025/11/news...
boakandbailey.com/2025/11/news...
News, nuggets and longreads 15 November 2025: Wild Wild Life
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got rogues, underdogs and cheats.
boakandbailey.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Crikey - Rogue and Underdog. And this is how I find out. Shows how far away from beer discourse I am at present.
It's like going back to your student town/city and seeing that all the locations that formed your memories have gone. I'm as nostalgic for the 2010s beer scene as I am for 90s football
It's like going back to your student town/city and seeing that all the locations that formed your memories have gone. I'm as nostalgic for the 2010s beer scene as I am for 90s football
Ooooh do I have thoughts. I might just come out of retirement for this.
My 1st point will be that a favourite local of one of these contributors once tried taking me to task on Twitter because I called out queues in pubs. I'd love to know if they got the same treatment, because my beef is never done
My 1st point will be that a favourite local of one of these contributors once tried taking me to task on Twitter because I called out queues in pubs. I'd love to know if they got the same treatment, because my beef is never done
The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Ooooh do I have thoughts. I might just come out of retirement for this.
My 1st point will be that a favourite local of one of these contributors once tried taking me to task on Twitter because I called out queues in pubs. I'd love to know if they got the same treatment, because my beef is never done
My 1st point will be that a favourite local of one of these contributors once tried taking me to task on Twitter because I called out queues in pubs. I'd love to know if they got the same treatment, because my beef is never done
Reposted by Mark Johnson
I wrote something on my phone while sitting on my train to Lincoln, and liked it, so I decided to publish it. A little something about grief, and travel, and Jaipur in the Sheffield Tap.
www.totalales.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
www.totalales.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wrote something on my phone while sitting on my train to Lincoln, and liked it, so I decided to publish it. A little something about grief, and travel, and Jaipur in the Sheffield Tap.
www.totalales.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
www.totalales.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
Rare night in to myself, so I'm taking it back to my favourite times in beer
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Rare night in to myself, so I'm taking it back to my favourite times in beer
First try of the Lees' version of Boddingtons.
Tasted like a Lees' beer at first... and I really wasn't sure. But then the first disappeared quickly and I was on a second. It's alright.
I last had the original whenever anybody else did, so I've no comparison to make
Tasted like a Lees' beer at first... and I really wasn't sure. But then the first disappeared quickly and I was on a second. It's alright.
I last had the original whenever anybody else did, so I've no comparison to make
October 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
First try of the Lees' version of Boddingtons.
Tasted like a Lees' beer at first... and I really wasn't sure. But then the first disappeared quickly and I was on a second. It's alright.
I last had the original whenever anybody else did, so I've no comparison to make
Tasted like a Lees' beer at first... and I really wasn't sure. But then the first disappeared quickly and I was on a second. It's alright.
I last had the original whenever anybody else did, so I've no comparison to make
Reposted by Mark Johnson
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...
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
October 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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...
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...
Unforeseen circumstances have led to Unforeseen Monday pints.
Starting off with cask Kernel Pale, and then I've these two to move onto next. What a time to be in Stalybridge
Starting off with cask Kernel Pale, and then I've these two to move onto next. What a time to be in Stalybridge
September 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Unforeseen circumstances have led to Unforeseen Monday pints.
Starting off with cask Kernel Pale, and then I've these two to move onto next. What a time to be in Stalybridge
Starting off with cask Kernel Pale, and then I've these two to move onto next. What a time to be in Stalybridge
Been a long time, but thrilled to see @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social back in Staly. One of my faves.
September 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Been a long time, but thrilled to see @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social back in Staly. One of my faves.
I don't think that the Aldi Oktoberfest beer box is bringing in the same level of engagement
September 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I don't think that the Aldi Oktoberfest beer box is bringing in the same level of engagement
Pubs are about more. Like customer's that bring in rosemary from their garden for people, to help use it up.
September 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Pubs are about more. Like customer's that bring in rosemary from their garden for people, to help use it up.
I've been using a very discarded and shabby looking beer shed much more this week to cope with some sad news, and all my familiar favourites are back too.
Sonoma.
Sonoma.
September 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I've been using a very discarded and shabby looking beer shed much more this week to cope with some sad news, and all my familiar favourites are back too.
Sonoma.
Sonoma.
Pints of Schlenkerla's latest release - the Helles Marzen - in Huddersfield today. Unreal stuff
September 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Pints of Schlenkerla's latest release - the Helles Marzen - in Huddersfield today. Unreal stuff
Celebrated 10 Years of Torrside today
August 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Celebrated 10 Years of Torrside today
I didn't go further than the garden gate today, and it was an exceptional day
August 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I didn't go further than the garden gate today, and it was an exceptional day
Beerlonging on Tour
August 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Beerlonging on Tour
THE DISPENSARY IN LIVERPOOL NOW ONLY SERVES PEOPLE IN A QUEUE FORMING OUT OF THE DOOR.
ROSCOE HEAD HAS JARL ON.
ONE OF THESE PUBS I WILL NEVER BE STEPPING FOOT IN AGAIN
ROSCOE HEAD HAS JARL ON.
ONE OF THESE PUBS I WILL NEVER BE STEPPING FOOT IN AGAIN
August 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
THE DISPENSARY IN LIVERPOOL NOW ONLY SERVES PEOPLE IN A QUEUE FORMING OUT OF THE DOOR.
ROSCOE HEAD HAS JARL ON.
ONE OF THESE PUBS I WILL NEVER BE STEPPING FOOT IN AGAIN
ROSCOE HEAD HAS JARL ON.
ONE OF THESE PUBS I WILL NEVER BE STEPPING FOOT IN AGAIN
The Ten Pubs That Made Me Part 9 - the shortened version - is available now on Instagram. No I'm not going to download a cross-app app.
www.instagram.com/p/DNV7Rejo6E...
www.instagram.com/p/DNV7Rejo6E...
August 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The Ten Pubs That Made Me Part 9 - the shortened version - is available now on Instagram. No I'm not going to download a cross-app app.
www.instagram.com/p/DNV7Rejo6E...
www.instagram.com/p/DNV7Rejo6E...
David Squires! What a Get!
The ailing world of Dublin football and the misunderstood world of modern beer got bored of being forgotten and clubbed together. The result? Flourishing scenes for both.
@eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social heads to Dublin to drink beer, watch Bohs, and find out more.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...
@eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social heads to Dublin to drink beer, watch Bohs, and find out more.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...
I Have a Love — The Resurrection of Beer, Football and Community Under Dublin Floodlights — Pellicle
On 15 July 2009, Stephen Clinch landed in Salzburg, tired and confused, after jetting from Dublin to Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, back to Dublin, and finally, to Munich. He’d been buying equipment for hi...
www.pelliclemag.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
David Squires! What a Get!