Alistair Reece

The Bon Accord on North St is everything a pub should be in my world.

List of awardees for the Best Other Beverage Reporting category at the 2025 North American Guild of Beer Writers awards.

An honorable mention from @nagbw.bsky.social for "Virginia Cider: A Scrumptious History"!!

Look at the folks that placed though...I am thrilled beyond words!

Had to look up the date, what on earth is with this timeline??

Judged objectively, Devils Backbone are still one of the best breweries in Virginia, and Jason Oliver is an amazing brewer.

As usual, the doctrinally pure of VA's craft beer community are pointedly ignoring the fact that Devils Backbone won multiple medals at #GABF, just as they did with this year's World Beer Cup results, just as they did with last year's GABF...you get the picture.

A very young Carra?

Dominic Matteo.

Do love a Yarlington Mill cider, that leathery character is stunning.

YouTube video by The Craft Beer Channel Utopian Brewery changed how we think about British ingredients.

Glorious from @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social about @teamutopian.bsky.social - wish they were available in VA.

Love the bit showing the difference decoction makes, staggering there are still folks that believe it is unnecessary, dafties all of them.

Go watch, get thirsty.

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Old Friends: Boddingtons Pub Ale a blog about beer, pubs and homebrewing. Based in Charlottesville but with a view of the world.

New post on #Fuggled, no, really.

Another Old Friends post, this time revisiting the height of 90s beery cool, Boddingtons.

www.fuggled.net/2025/09/old-...

#beer

After Mlíko, Could This Traditional Czech Beer Pour Be the Next Big Thing? First came mlíko, which gave us “milk tubes,” “mlíko bombs,” and other variations on the all-foam beer serve. With bars and taprooms looking for new ways to attract customers, will the two-beer mix kn...

All-foam mlíko pours got trendy in craft beer circles. But now feels like the right time for řezané pivo, the Czech special pour layering dark and pale lagers. It’s perfect for fall.

(Illustration: 3 mugs of striped řezané pivo.)

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Fantastic read! I often enjoyed a řezané back in Czechia, the Hostomice one at nelevarna stands out in my memory. One of my favourites to make at home, minus layering, is with Von Trapp Helles and their beautiful smoke lager, Trösten.

Old Friends: Leffe Blonde a blog about beer, pubs and homebrewing. Based in Charlottesville but with a view of the world.

New post on Fuggled (no, honestly)...in which I take a trip down a Belgian memory lane, with some horse racing thrown in too.

www.fuggled.net/2025/09/old-...

Hooves are they?

Democracy Brewing have a decent helles.

Aldi without German stuff is lame.

Tettnang grown Mittelfrüher is a cracking hop.

The Vertigo of Bliss — Scotland’s Inseparable Relationship with Tennent’s Lager — Pellicle It’s a Sunday, nearly midnight, and I’m in 8 Ball–a dilapidated yet bustling pool hall above the Scotia, an out-of-the-way folk bar in Glasgow city centre. Occasionally a buzzer sounds, signalling som...

And now I am homesick, thirsty, and plotting a homebrew version.

Kudos to @pelliclemag.com for such a great piece about an iconic beer.

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

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Looks are deceiving, it is beyond delicious, it is perfection. Josh is hitting home runs regularly with lagers.

This was my wife I at when we had from the lagering tanks a couple of weeks back.

Half litre of Czech style lager from Selvedge Brewing in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Was drinking this absolute banger of a 10° Czech style výčepní pivo at Selvedge earlier, made me miss Czechia more than usual.

It's the Dabinett, decent but not hitting like the Hewe's Cuvee did earlier.

Erm....

Very interesting...

YouTube video by Dear Old Britain 15 Pub Dinners from the ’60s and ’70s That Brits Forgot

Now I am hungry.

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A glass of orange, bright copper beer

For reference, here's a pint of the previous batch...

They should do that with Parliament too, get MPs out of London for a while.

Brewing my house best bitter recipe today, should be ready just in time for the leaves to start turning...

Endeavour hops have quickly become a favourite and now I feel like exploring more of the new British hops, any suggestions?

#homebrew

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Come join the BeerSky Football League for this season:

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Fantastic stuff, Potter's make some very fine ciders.

In the spirit of this, can we please stop referring to Budvar, as much as I love them, and the "original" Budweiser.

They are not, never have been, and never will be.

1895 is a good hundred years later than 1795 when Bürgerliches Brauhaus Budweis was founded, known today as Samson.