Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻
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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻
@professorpub.bsky.social
Professor at the University of York researching pubs and pub consumers! Some travelling (pubs/beer included) and the odd Border Terrier picture!
I think they should just let them keep winning until suitable challengers emerge! #pubquiz @ladbible.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A great perspective on design facilitating atmosphere - "...tables around the edges...a through-space running down the middle...ensures...communal atmosphere.....the cask beer storage... so bartenders must cross the space to pour it....helps the whole pub feel like part of the action."
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Kay’s Bar, Edinburgh! Fabulous! Such a great pub - it had been on our list before and we’d never got there. So glad we made it there today! Great beers, red ceiling, doggy friendly! #pub
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Teuchters, Edinburgh- for the rugby - absolutely rammed! Bar staff fabulously efficient and we even managed to get a table! #pub
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Breakfast at The Holyrood 9a after a walk up Arthur’s Seat! #pub
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Port O’ Leith - faux nautical, ok beer, odd vibe but not unpleasant! #bar
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Teuchters Landing, Leith - a labyrinth of rooms, beer from metres away and lots of tourists! #bar #pub
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The Bowler’s Rest, Leith! Lovely, traditional pub with 2”wonderful friendly locals! Husband said - “it might make my top 10!” #pub
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Leith Depot - modern bar/pub - relaxed, interesting artwork and no I didn’t have a Pickleback! #bar
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Had to stop at the Victoria Bar on the way to Leith! Scandi inspired and excellent snacks! #bar
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Off the train at Haymarket, Edinburgh and straight into Ryrie’s Bar! My husband said it had been tidied up since he was last here - probably decades ago! A very Scottish thistle wallpaper! #bar
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@philmellows.bsky.social talking sense:
"If the quality's there, lower ABVs should be a win for everyone' and for all the people choosing to 'coast' (i.e. drink lower ABVs), it's a welcome move.
www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...
OPINION: Beer drinkers too hung up on ABVs
Beer drinkers are too hung up on ABVs, Phil Mellows writes after Heineken UK announced plans to lower the strength of Foster's lager.
www.morningadvertiser.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Spotted - in Bromsgrove - a Periodic Table of Beer! #beer
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
My first visit to a pub in Bromsgrove - the Hop Pole Inn - rugby on the tv at one end and football on the tv at the other - plus darts, stage and plenty of beer! #pub
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I'm fan of pubs and of dogs and rarely visit a pub without my dog. I'm also aware that not everyone likes dogs and I am happy to see a clear set of dog rules which helps dog owners to know what is expected of them/their pooch and everyone can enjoy the pub together! #pubdog
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It has been an absolute pleasure to supervise Molly for her PhD. The time has gone so quickly and I can't believe it is almost over! Congratulations Dr Brown! 🎉
Huge thanks to my brilliant supervisors, Prof Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social & Prof Victoria Wells @professorpub.bsky.social, for their expertise, encouragement, and endless support throughout the PhD journey. 🙏🏻
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Great to do a presentation today for the Food, Wine and Hospitality Center of Excellence @KedgeBS! Lots of discussion about the consumption of no and low alcohol drinks and its role in hospitality! #nolo
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"A certain level of pub decorum must be preserved" - more excellent writing from @pelliclemag
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 ...
www.pelliclemag.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Now November is here, it’s chillier and the nights are drawing in what is needed is cosy pubs - some suggestions from @philmellows.bsky.social
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
I went in search of Britain's cosiest pubs - here are my 20 favourites
From 200-year-old inns to charming, snug-filled bolt-holes, a renowned expert selects some of the most welcoming watering holes to visit as the nights draw in​​
inews.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Great to be quoted in this article in Sweden's largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, about pubs in the UK! #pubs @uoysbs.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The Gate Pub in Malton is becoming the Filly & Flagon! Not sure when it will be opening or what it will be like but at least it won’t be closed! #pub
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The 2025 Grapes, Slingsby Conker Championship- I got to the semi finals but beat by the ultimate champion Poppy! #conker #pub
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Younger adults are drinking in a way that fits modern lives, balancing alcohol with wellness, choosing smaller formats or lower-ABV options and valuing setting and experience as much as product" www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...
Gen Z drinking less, or just drinking differently? New data challenges assumptions
New research from Lumina Intelligence and CGA by NIQ shows Gen Z are still drinking and socialising in pubs and bars, but with new habits. Younger adults are driving later nights, mixing alcoholic and...
www.morningadvertiser.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM