This week I wrote a few thoughts on the Belgian coast and its beer culture or lack of atjpubs.substack.com/p/the-salt-w...
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Journalist, author, speaker on pubs, beer, travel. Daily Star beer guy, occasional beer op-ed for DT, features Pellicle, Ferment and others. Latest book, A Pub for all Seasons, paperback now out. Agent: Kevin Pocklington, North Literary Agency.
This week I wrote a few thoughts on the Belgian coast and its beer culture or lack of atjpubs.substack.com/p/the-salt-w...
28.02.2026 18:10 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This blog turns 20 years old todayβalmost old enough to drink legally! I reflect on what an immense presence it has had in my life.
26.02.2026 19:50 β π 44 π 9 π¬ 7 π 0Thatβs the right strength for me
27.02.2026 15:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Calling Anton Dreher wherever you are, hereβs a delicious Vienna Lager from @pressuredropbrw.bsky.social which just so happened to be my beer of the week in todayβs @dailystar.co.uk
27.02.2026 10:31 β π 13 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Calling Anton Dreher wherever you are, hereβs a delicious Vienna Lager from @pressuredropbrw.bsky.social which just so happened to be my beer of the week in todayβs @dailystar.co.uk
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Donner, porridge and new friends. Cologne is the best, and here are some reasons why.
www.independent.co.uk/travel/europ...
External of The Castle Tavern pub with some blue sky and dark clouds with illuminated edges from the light of a setting sun
Inside of Castle Tavern showing bar with ornate ironwork and some dark wood furniture
Pint of Orkney Breweryβs Dark Island on a green bar towel with some empty branded Tennents pint glasses behind it. A pair of upturned black rimmed spectacles sit to the left of the Dark Island beer.
Page from a newspaper article headed βSeasons to be beerful!β written by Adrian Tierney-Jones suggesting a pub for every month. Article relates to Adrianβs book βA Pub For All Seasonsβ available in paperback and hardback
The Castle Tavern, Inverness. January edition of βa pub for all monthsβ done and what a cracking little pub.
Next up in Feb., The City Arms, Manchester. π»
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Feb done. Next up in March for @atjbeer.bsky.social βpub for all monthsβ @thefreetradeinn.bsky.social
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But of reading in the pub on the way home, with a Flemish beer perhaps? atjpubs.substack.com/p/the-salt-w...
24.02.2026 18:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bit of a riff on the Flemish coast atjpubs.substack.com/p/the-salt-w...
23.02.2026 14:35 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Bit of a riff on the Flemish coast atjpubs.substack.com/p/the-salt-w...
23.02.2026 14:35 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Ooh, that is in the cellar at the Topsham Brewery Tap, looking forward to it but in the meantime Thornbridgeβs West Coast IPA Golden Spike is on in cask
21.02.2026 19:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0See you then hopefully
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Too many and itβs
which way you going?
Iβm egg bound
Might have been two, was with the guys from Amity after doing a book event - which session you doing in Sheff again?
21.02.2026 16:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Is that an egg? A sort of ironic comment on Burton water?
21.02.2026 15:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thatβs what I had last time I was there late 24 (and a pint of cask Thomas Hardy)
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20.02.2026 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm Welsh, north Welsh π
20.02.2026 14:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Well Iβm Welsh so I get a free pass
20.02.2026 14:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Brown ale facts #1 Newkey Brown is 100 years old next year #2 Champion Brown Ale from @newbarns.bsky.social is my beer of the week in todayβs @dailystar.co.uk and itβs a belter of a beer
20.02.2026 10:28 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1This weekβs beery new notes were brought to you by @willhawkes.bsky.social @seethelizards.bsky.social @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social @totalcurtis.bsky.social @atjbeer.bsky.social @beervana.bsky.social @boakandbailey.bsky.social and many more!
19.02.2026 18:31 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0π€£
17.02.2026 22:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Christ no, ripped jeans and t shirt got my cue from MC5 and the Ramones
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I wrote this about pubs and mourning - I hope this can help some people who might be going through grief. Just remember you're not alone
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Amazing
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Sunday night reading as you was into the week? If you missed this then hereβs my account of a brief visit to Cologne
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Sunday night reading as you was into the week? If you missed this then hereβs my account of a brief visit to Cologne
I opened one during lockdown and it was still very drinkable, although perhaps past its peak: refreshingbeer.blogspot.com/2020/05/1978...
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