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Answering the neo prohibitionists, 1 of 10: “Alcohol Consumption in the UK is increasing”

10th January 2010 | Uncategorised

“Over the last 60 years English drinking habits have been transformed. In 1947 the nation consumed approximately three and a half litres of pure...

10th January 2010 | Uncategorised

Bless you, you’re a liberal minded lot. My poll on kids and dogs in pubs closed yesterday and the results are as follows. Based...

8th January 2010 | Uncategorised

I know I go on quite a bit about the politics of drinking. Here’s a very good illustration of why I do. The Parliamentary...

6th January 2010 | Uncategorised

I love Ceske Budejovice, in southern Bohemia. The main reason I love it is because it’s where Budvar is brewed.I first visited on 2003,...

3rd January 2010 | Uncategorised

Danger! This much beer is ‘hazardous’! Ah, New Year, a time for reflection, refocus, resolution. A time for getting fit, a time for… the...

2nd January 2010 | Uncategorised

Happy New Year! Had a very pleasant New Year’s Day in The Spaniards, Hampstead – the pub I discovered in September at the Flying...

22nd December 2009 | Uncategorised

One of the US’s finest craft breweries has announced in the last few minutes that they are looking to launch a brewery in Europe....

22nd December 2009 | Uncategorised

London was positively Dickensian yesterday. The Beer Widow and I a couple of friends spent the afternoon in the Elk in the Woods, a...

18th December 2009 | Uncategorised

OK, after getting most of the political and industry stuff out of the way yesterday, let’s get on with celebrating the best of beer...