First pint of this year’s UtopianBrewing Rainbock on draft and it’s as beautiful and eloquent as ever - bready, breakfast cereal sweetness, floral, maybe even a hint of rose petals, full bodied, a suggestion of amaretto mid palate before a generous dry and light bittersweet finish

In the attic going through stuff and here is one of the few NMEs I kept (I once had years and years of issues)

Nice pub facade from London last year just popped up on my ‘for you’ thing on my phone so I thought I’d share, can’t remember the pub name but it is so lovely

My hot take on the hippest new beer in town… from 12 years ago. petebrown.net/2012/04/13/in-…

Beer of the week in today’s Daily Star is this delightful Farmhouse Pilsner from Sobremesa Drinks, a beer to gulp and marvel at the infinity of the universe with

There is a halo of warmth and earthiness that inhabits the wooden surroundings of pubs as I mused on after an afternoon in Cambridge at the weekend atjpubs.substack.com/p/the-wooden-w…

Happy Rainbock Day 2024☃️from sunny #Devon

#lagerislife #discoverutopian
#indiebrewers #supportlocal
#maibock #worldbeerawards

There is a halo of warmth and earthiness that inhabits the wooden surroundings of pubs as I mused on after an afternoon in Cambridge at the weekend atjpubs.substack.com/p/the-wooden-w…

You know how much I adore unsolicited advice from men about what I should be writing? Well, this week’s was from someone who has never met me. It kindly included all the information about breweries in brackets after each point. Just in case I got muddled with who owned what. 😏

This hate riot was sponsored by Brewdog Punk IPA and the hopeless management that were informed that the far-right would be arriving at Brewdog Waterloo BUT did nothing. Profits before people

Perfect flight Topsham Brewery - burningskybeer Printemps Saison and UtopianBrewing Unfiltered - my palate will sing with the vigour of Caruso

Lovely visit to my old stomping ground of Cambridge today to see an old friend, visit some of our old haunts and also pass where my band did its first rehearsals in a bitterly cold winter years ago

There are a few special birthdays this year amongst the remaining traditional family breweries and Batemans Brewery is one of them, and Paoro is of their birthday beers and is also my beer of the week in today’s Daily Star

on queuing in pubs open.substack.com/pub/atjpubs/p/…

Delighted to take over from my mate Adrian Tierney-Jones as the Chair of Judges of the WorldBeerAwards! Time is racing by and you have three weeks left to enter! You should, you know - it'll be ace and if your beer's good, you might win. worldbeerawards.com

Delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of our 2024 Vinage Rainbock.
Read all about it on our blog utopianbrewing.com/news/2024/4/12…
Available for trade pre-order now and online shop from Monday.

Inspired by this article: twitter.com/ATJbeer/status…

What are people's thoughts on queuing in pubs? Would especially love to hear from people working in or running pubs!

Absolutely lovely article!

on queuing in pubs open.substack.com/pub/atjpubs/p/…

My piece on the rise of biohacking and longevity programmes for Condé Nast Traveller is now available to read online (no pay wall!).
cntravellerme.com/story/new-bioh…