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multi award-winning writer | academic | UK Beer Writer of the Year 2018 | co-author: World’s Greatest Beers | producer: Same Again? mental health podcast | erstwhile rockabilly DJ | she/her | 🏳️‍🌈 | trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ www.fermentationonline.com

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Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Feb 28

I'm still new to Bluesky, so here's a bit of info for those who don't know me. I'm a beer writer & audio maker & have my fingers in a number of pies (which, as everyone knows, go perfectly with beer). I post mainly about beer, pubs, books, mental health & equality. More at fermentationonline.com

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 8d

* On time for the first - and possibly only - time…

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 8d

And I loved this account of a young Damien, aged just 6, finding a wild hop growing at the roadside & discovering for the first time the beauty & aroma that this magical plant holds.

‘It was sugary-sour. It smelled like something precious. I wanted to lock it up somehow & take it back with me…’

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 8d

Damien Le Bas - The Stopping Places (2018)

As someone with distant Gypsy roots of my own & a love of travelling the country in my campervan, I thoroughly enjoyed this honest & insightful account of one man’s journey through some of the Traveller stopping places of old. So many stories seldom told.

A book: Damien Le Bas - The Stopping Places

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 8d

David Mitchell - Slade House (2016)

It’s always good when you find a book by one of your favourite writers in a charity shop. I scooped up this pleasantly creepy little novel & read it in a couple of sittings. Bargain.

A book: David Mitchell - Slade House

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 8d

Chloe Dalton - Raising Hare (2024)

The only time I’ve ever seen a hare, it appeared in the road like a bad portent during a somewhat terrifying nighttime drive through France, but this fascinating & personal book has shown me the beauty of this
misunderstood animal.

@chloedalton.bsky.social

A book: Chloe Dalton - Raising Hare

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 8d

For the first - and possibly only - time this year, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - September 2025

On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons.

#booksky

Three paperback books on a brick wall

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 18d

With a Trump flag hanging just a few hundred yards from where I live, and now the shelves of my local Tesco Express completely devoid of houmous, it’s hard not to feel personally targeted as a lesbian at the moment…

A Trump flag and a Union Flag on a lamppost in East Brighton

An empty shelf in Tesco where the houmous should be.

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you to @willhawkes.bsky.social & his @londonbeercity.bsky.social newsletter for drawing this wonderful film to my attention. It’s a fantastic snapshot - featuring some very familiar faces - of the excitement of the London brewing scene back in 2010.

youtu.be/DggCEQoLnAs?...

London Brewers Alliance 2010

YouTube video by LambicFilms

Reposted by Emma Inch

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 29d

Easington, 1984, photo by Izabela Jedrzejczyk. From her series Striking Women, about women there who were supporting miners during the strike.

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 29d

The beer briefcase is back????

Reposted by Emma Inch

Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 29d

What we did in school today. Here’s an amazing graphic summary, drawn by Rebecca Osborne as we talked, of today’s Pubs in the Community meeting @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social organised by @culturalclare.bsky.social

Live art depicting course of discussion. Can’t describe it all - too much!

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · 29d

I love that!

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Sep 8

Elliot Page - Pageboy (2023)

Meandering memoir by the actor, Elliot Page that gives an insight into his own transition & the wider, sometimes toxic, world of Hollywood.

A book: Elliot Page - Pageboy

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Sep 8

Matt Rowland Hill - Original Sins (2022)

Given the subject matter, I did not expect this book to be as funny as it was but it had me laughing aloud at some points. A deeply personal, honest account of addiction & forgiveness with one of the best opening chapters I’ve ever read.

A book: Matt Rowland Hill - Original Sins

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Sep 8

Kieran Yates - All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In (2023)

A powerful memoir of home & an intelligent & timely account of how the housing system in the UK fails so many of us.

A book: Kieran Yates - All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yael van der Wouden - The Safekeep (2024)

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize & winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, this is also in the running for my own personal book of the year. An absolute masterpiece of a novel & a lesson in history everyone should learn. Read it.

A book: Yael van der Wouden - The Safekeep

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fashionably late, as always, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read in the past month - August 2025

One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company.

#booksky

A pile of 4 books on a table with a patterned tablecloth

Reposted by Emma Inch

Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · Sep 3

The man who started craft beer? My profile of David Bruce for @pelliclemag.com (photos by Sean McEmerson): www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

What a Firkin' Life — David Bruce’s Life in Beer — Pellicle

In one corner of the 17th Century barn at Hawkridge Distillers, under a fairy-tale web of timber beams, a young man is making coffee from a bag of beans on a proper barista machine. Espressos. Cup aft...

www.pelliclemag.com

Reposted by Emma Inch

alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am a trans woman in the UK. My most influential enemies are the guy who co-created a sitcom about Catholic priests back in the 90s, a woman who wrote some children’s books about wizards, and the prime minister.

Sometimes I feel a little crazy about this.

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just so you know, I fixed my printer this morning so I’m gonna have a go at world peace later.
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes

My home printer. With stickers on it.

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Aug 20

*nowhere near York though!

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Aug 20

I’m currently away in my motorhome in Pembrokeshire & have been using @beerbreaks.bsky.social as a guide for St David’s & Tenby!
We definitely need a UK motorhome / beer guide (commissions welcome!) My favourite beery place to stay is currently Edwardstone White Horse (home of Little Earth Project).

Reposted by Emma Inch

Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 6

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Aug 6

Kit de Waal - Without Warning & Only Sometimes (2022)
Fascinating memoir of a childhood lived at the meeting point of different worlds. Painful at times but filled to the brim with courage. Wonderful.
@kitdewaal.com

A book: Kit de Waal - Without Warning & Only Sometimes

Emma Inch @emmainch.bsky.social · Aug 6

Greg Marshall - Leg: The Story of a Limb & the Boy Who Grew From It (2023)
Wonderfully entertaining & incredibly intimate memoir of disability & queerness. Loved it.

A book: Greg Marshall - Leg