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We’re your favourite ✨award winning✨ independent food & drink magazine & podcast. Reader supported, proudly free to read. Posts (skeets?) by deputy editor Katie. CASK IS LIFE

https://www.pelliclemag.com/

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In all seriousness, this recognition for our team's hard work is lovely. We are very chuffed. Thank you for your support as readers and cheerleaders, we literally could not exist without you - KM
Katie Mather, Matthew Curtis and Claire Bullen (all wearing black) standing together with the winners' trophy (a silver tankard) and certificate
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Pellicle — officially the @britbeerwriters.bsky.social Publisher of the Year
A huge emoji holding its rosy cheeks with lovehearts for pupils
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Original art by the one and only @davidsquires.bsky.social
A cartoon character in cap, hoodie, shades and a football scarf around their face holds up a can of Trouble Brewing beer that doubles as a flare
August 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Ruin, our collab beer with @balancebrew.bsky.social. A refreshing lip smacked of Sicillian lemon and bitters, like a spritz, like a glass of sunshine.
A stemmed glass with a golden beer inside. In front of barrels and the brewery.
May 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Our new t-shirts are absolutely exemplary.

Strictly limited edition, get yours now (or tomorrow at our event with Balance Brewing)

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Black tshirt against a white door. Red cursive script reads "Pellicle" Back of a black tshirt against a white door. A red triangle surrounded by gold, with "Pellicle" in gold cursive inside.
May 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"We’ll never know everything there is to know in wine, and we don’t need to."

These photos - taken by James Sturke for the piece - of winemaker Alfredo Egia are so great. Surely this is peak winemaker photography.
Alfredo Egia emotes with a free hand, his other is holding a wine glass, a large pipette and a corkscrew. Alfredo Egia swirls a wine glass, staring at it seriously. Alfredo Egia gesticulates and pulls a face of exaggerated confusion. Alfredo Egia sits atop a wine barrel, sipping from a glass as he holds it, winemaker style, at the base.
April 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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David's cartoon this month resonates in a different way. I (Katie) wrote about it in our email this morning, but I wanted to post here too. It's important.

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Text reads: During a time of fear and confusion, our leaders would have us fight among ourselves rather than stand up together for what’s decent and ethical. We are being sold erroneous horror stories about our friends and neighbours to further stoke misplaced anger and encourage exclusion and segregation. Pubs are one of the last places we have free reign to be who we are, and share our individual perspectives, knowledge, and lived experiences. Do we connect with strangers in the supermarket, on the bus? No. Pubs are essential meeting places where all members of society can rub shoulders and learn that there is no “other”. We are all just pub goers, enjoying a pint. Please enjoy David’s cartoon, and if you can, head to your local trans rights protests, and let our government know that trans people are loved, that we are a society together, and we will not stand for their persecution in the phoney name of “safety” or for any other reason. Hands around a circular pub table, sharing crisps, pint pots sat together.
April 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Big news. We're having a party and you're all invited!

Join us on Saturday 10 May for our double-whammy of a do, featuring our collab beers with @balancebrew.bsky.social and celebrations for our 6th birthday 🎉

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Glasses of beer of various colours on a wooden barrel, with a roll of blue paper roll behind them
April 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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This Wednesday 23 April is the last A Place To Be zine event for a while.

Get yourselves down to Plug and Taps in Preston from 7pm for stories from the zine with Katie (me!)
Katie in leopard print and a soundgarden tshirt holding copies of A Place To Be and smiling
April 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Come and buy some merch at @balancebrew.bsky.social today from our Matthew!
Pellicle t-shirts hung on the wall at balance brewing Poster reads: Pelli prices a place to be zine £10 mcr's best pubs and bars book £15 black beer tshirt - £20 optimism forever tshirt - £35 cord cap - £20 Moon calendar - £5 Assortment of pellicle merch goodies on a table
March 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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What a wonderful night we had at The Crow talking about pubs and beer and A Place To Be. Thank you to everyone who came down to join us, the place was packed!
Katie with her zine A Place To Be.
March 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Cool announcement, everyone!

We're throwing a do with @balancebrew.bsky.social to launch three very special beers we've collaborated on together.

May 10th
All day, 12pm til late
DJs - Food - Molly Bland Gallery
@whitepeak.bsky.social tastings

Did we also mention it's our 6th birthday? Be there!!
Colourful cut and paste-style poster depicting all the informational text outlined in the post. Designed by Molly Bland.
March 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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This Saturday 8 March is our first A Place To Be zine event, taking place at Kerroo Brewing in Port Erin on the Isle of Man.

Why the Isle of Man? There are two stories in the zine based there!

It's a long shot, but sailings are still available if you want to come along...
Poster for A Place To Be zine tour. 8 March, Kerroo Brewing, Port Erin. 16 March, The Crow, Sheffield 3 April, Runaway Brewery, Stockport 12 April, Caps and Taps, Tuffnel Park
March 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Ooh, look what's on the shelves in @raremags.bsky.social
Pellicle zine A Place To Be on a bookshelf along with some really excellent food books and zines.
February 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Mark Welsby, @runawaybrewery.bsky.social has been a Pro-Patreon supporter of Pellicle since before we were even based in Stockport!

Thank you Mark, and Runaway, for being a Pro-Patreon supporter. We appreciate you xox
Brewer Mark Welsby stands in front of a wooden-cladded vessel. Text reads: we choose to support Pellicle because Pellicle supports the things we hold most dear—food, drink, the creative arts, DIY culture and the value of independent spirit, all wrapped up in a free-to-read format. Mark Welsby, Runaway Brewery, Stockport, subscriber since May 2019
January 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Welcome and thank you very much to @balancebrew.bsky.social who have become our latest Pro-Patreon supporters! Legends!
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January 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Happy New Year to every one'a'ya. You make what we do worthwhile!

On a personal note, I hope the weather doesn't dampen your mood tonight because 2025 needs your full attention ✨

Lotsa love
Katie + the Team xox
A lovely pint of dark Old Peculier beer in front of a roaring fire at The Swan With Two Necks in Pendleton. Happy New Year!
December 31, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Beautiful photos from Claire's story, also taken by her in the summertime, for some much-needed warmth and escapism 🌻🍇🇨🇿
A field of bright yellow sunflowers facing away towards a corrugated iron Dutch barn, a blue sky above. A field of sunflowers Ripening grapes on the vine. A row of grape vines in the vineyard, mountains in the distance.
December 11, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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Here's the fireplace in the front room of The New Inn, Clitheroe to warm up yer collywobbles.
A glowing red and orange fire in a victorian tiled fireplace Somebody needs to put another log on it.
December 7, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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PRO-PATREON SUBSCRIBER ALERT!

Welcome to the Pelli gang, @teamutopian.bsky.social ✨

Thank you for joining our amazing group of Pro-Patreons!

Here's how you can join them, as an individual or as a business: www.patreon.com/pelliclemag
The Uptopian Brewing logo, a line drawing of Britannia dresses in a hop-detailed gown, surrounded by hops and barley, holding a beer. The Pellicle pro-patreons: Runaway Brewery Euroboozer Trouble Brewing Simpsons Malt Stormbird Cloudwater Burning Sky DuckChicken Northern Monk Anspach & Hobday RedWillow Five Points Get Er Brewed Caps and Taps Yakima Chief Amity Fyne Ales DEYA McColl's Two Flints Indy Man Beer Con Courier Lost and Grounded Two Rocks Siren Cardinal Rule Black Edge French and Jupps The Trafalgar The Robin Timothy Taylors SIBA Nightingale Cider Utopian
December 6, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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Massively grateful for all of our Pro Patreon supporters ❤️‍🔥 Without you, we wouldn't be here!

Want to join them? Here's the link.

www.patreon.com/pelliclemag
A big list of all the Pellicle pro patreon supporters' logos.
December 2, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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New Pro-Subscriber reveal pt.2!!

Welcome to the gang @teamutopian.bsky.social 🫡
Utopian Brewing logo, an illustration in black on a white background of Britannia with a glass of beer surrounded by hops and barley
December 2, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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New Pro-Subscriber reveal pt.1!!

Great to have you with us, @nightingalecider.bsky.social 🍎
Nightgale Cider logo, a black text roundel reading "nightingale cider company" on a white background.
December 2, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Our long sleeved t-shirts are heavyweight and perfect for winter layering.

Designed by Dionne Kitching and screen printed by hand by Anchor End in Manchester, they say "OPTIMISM FOREVER" and they mean it.

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Matthew wears a hat and glasses and stands in front of a gritty looking red brick wall with graffiti on it. He is wearing the long sleeved black Pellicle t-shirt, which has a turquoise Pellicle logo on the front left chest, and details all down each sleeve. Matthew wears a hat and stands with his back to us in front of a gritty looking red brick wall with graffiti on it. He is wearing the long sleeved black Pellicle t-shirt which has OPTIMISM FOREVER printed in large turquoise text across the shoulderblades.
November 26, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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We are down to our last few Black Beer tees, so if you want one, you'd better put a donk on it.

Designed by Manchester-based illustrator Jessica Wild, and screen printed in Manchester by Anchor End.

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Model wears a black tee shirt with the phrase "Black Beer" printed in white, the word "black" is above four pint glasses and the "beer" is below the pint glasses. It's in the style of the Black Flag logo.
November 21, 2024 at 4:35 PM