Science for Thirsty People

Most of the bottles were picked up from Realale.com, the local store on the road from Twickenham to Richmond, and I suspect a few of them ha...

Whenever we or friends and colleagues go overseas, we try to bring back a few bottles of unusual or local beers from various places, and I t...

Since my occasional American house-guests and other visitors are very generous and always bring over a few bottles or cans of beer with them...

This was an unassuming bar that you’d hardly find if you didn't know it was there (see the closed street door, shown in the photo), with...

Dominic Rathbone: The making and marketing of Roman wine   18:00 Wednesday November 19, 2014. The Plough , 27 Museum Street, London ...

HISTORY DOWN THE PUB Martyn Cornell: Remembering the Great London Beer Flood 18:00 Thursday October 16, 2014. The Plough , 27 Museum ...

History Down the Pub is an academic seminar series, held in a Central London pub, discussing the history and archaeology of beer, brewing, ...

We attended the Great British Beer Festival in Kensington Olympia on the Wednesday night. I think going earlier in the week has proved to b...

A bunch of us attended a conference in French-speaking Switzerland last week, and knowing of breweries like Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes...

One of the SFTP reviewers was diagnosed with Coeliac disease a few months ago, which at first led to much gnashing of teeth and tearing of h...

My first contact with Estonian beers is a lunch time conversation in Tallinn. One of the local colleagues comments that “British beers are ...

In Highgate to see a band play the other night, we turned out to be in a very nice little brewpub, home of the London Brewing Company microb...

A late addition to our Top 25 pubs tour, the Bricklayer's Arms in Putney was quiet on a Sunday night: literally the kind of atmosphere ...

We visited the Reading Beer and Cider Festival again this year, after being very impressed by the organization, scale and quality in 2013 ....

Ye Olde Mitre, near Chancery Lane (which we visited a couple years ago as part of the 25 London pubs tour), held a St George's Day beer...