The Morning Advertiser gives the news today of a European Beer Consumers Union constitution which will be signed on 24 June. It sounds rather official.

Ireland is still the second-biggest beer-drinking market in the world, after the Czech Republic. But beer consumption has declined 15% since 2001. Rural pubs were closing last year at the rate of more than one a day...

It's been all too much, really. The photo contest, plus the shopping, then the work lunches and drinks and then shopping and the seminars and concerts and church and... now it's Christmas night. Present opened, lamb consumed, half the kids in bed and...

The Washington Post introduced a piece on Christmas ales today with a reminder that they harken back to the pre-Puritan days of England, days of steaming bowls of hot spiced ale and shorter life spans: ... originally, the word -- from the Middle...

I like to think I know a thing or two about beer but I probably know diddly when it comes down to it. I go on here and yak at other people's blogs but have I really been put to the test? Well, I have been invited to lead local folk in the hospitality...

Stan has asked questions at his blog that have me quite puzzled. It's about some weird idea that a beer could be "world class" as if that is the apex of some sort of sliding scale of swellness.There are a lot of words or phrases like "world class" that...

Even before that silly rant by Protz last month, it had become more than evident that BrewDog was taking paths not trod in an effort to get the word out about its beer. But all the focus was on their successful abuse of the old guard and those who were...