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#FaceItTogether is a movement led by The Drinks Trust focused on creating actual change for those in the drinks and hospitality sectors who are experiencing hardship. The goal is to ensure that no one in our community feels alone in their hour of need. Donations 👇

www.justgiving.com/campaign/fac...

In our next piece, Rosemary Richings talks to a variety of people within the disability community about what they want to see from hospitality venues when it comes to making customers feel welcome

Words by Rosemary Richings
Illustration by Helen Anne Smith

www.burumcollective.com/posts/trueme...

Our first online piece from The Usual is by the community publican of The Trafalgar in Wimbledon, providing us their perspective on pubs, building community, and what it means to have regulars 🍻🤝

Words by Oli Carter-Esdale
Illustration by Helen Anne Smith

www.burumcollective.com/posts/solace

We managed to hit our pre-orders target on day one! Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy so far 🩷💫

we've turned our latest project into a physical zine cos a) i hate the internet, b) i think it makes a great companion piece to Service, Please! & c) it's really fun making art with your best mate

The Usual is such a good exploration of the rough/smooth of the customer service dynamic. Order it!

Pre-orders for our latest zine; The Usual are now live!

A collection of written and visual work around the dynamics between being a regular, and having a local, from the perspective of both customers and service staff.

Zines will be sent out WC 5th of May!

www.burumcollective.com/store/p/theu...

Rumour has it there are only FIVE CraftCon tickets left, and only 36 hours to get them. It's one of our favourite events of the year, so much so that we're now both on the 3CCPA Committee, and are really looking forward to being able to attend once more 💕

You can also book in for Cider Club at @rosscider.bsky.social on Saturday 29th March! £15 gets you a welcome cider, a selection of ciders from this months cider maker, Floribunda from Italy, and a buffet! A real feast!

rosscider.com/ciderclub/

Two baristas in union t-shirts being escorted out of a starbucks location by police with their hands appearing to be tied behind their backs.

Workers at multiple Starbucks locations across the country went on strike yesterday, walking out in protest of management's refusal to negotiate a fair union contract with @SBWorkersUnited. In some cases, the police were called and striking workers were arrested.

Quick reminder that diversity and inclusion doesn't start or end with white women

Thrilled to say that this years CraftCon has sold so well we've had to add extra tickets! These really are the last ones now so please register now if you've been meaning to!

craftcon.co.uk/product/craf...

Had a v nice time co-hosting a @wildernessbrew.bsky.social beer and cheese tasting for Sheffield beer week at The Old Shoe yesterday! Sheffield is always a vibe, and v kind to us 💫

Chilean Starbucks workers continue their historic strike today after negotiations between their union and the company broke down this week.

Bianca, an SBWU member from Los Angeles, is right alongside them in Chile to tell Starbucks - workers EVERYWHERE deserve better!

Image of hops strung up in a hop yard, text: What is Beer? By the Glass education and tasting session for hospitality staff, 6pm, 31st March 2025, £5 at Bacareto in Cardiff

At the end of the month we're hosting a beer school for hospitality staff! An intro to the beer styles you almost certainly get asked about, and crash course on ingredients, brewing, and tasting. Bring your notepad and pen! 📖🍻

6pm | 31.03.25 | £5
Bacareto, CDF

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burum-basi...

Starbucks baristas in Chile have just gone on STRIKE!!!

Chilean congressman & former President of the Starbucks Workers Union of Chile, Andres Giordano, is with Bianca, a union barista from Los Angeles!

Together, they're sending Starbucks workers everywhere international solidarity 🇨🇱🤝🇺🇸

Image of 5 people looking at apples on a sorting table, with the text The Future of Cider. Illustration by George Manson

As we roll up to our 5th(!) year of running Burum Collective we are thrilled to say our inboxes are open again for commissions! This year we’ve chosen cider as our theme, specifically:

The Future of Cider

Read more on the theme, how to pitch, rates, and more
www.burumcollective.com/pitching-2025

for a few months now, i've been dealing with a plagiarist, a clever one at that, going through my newsletters and mining ideas and words and reproducing them as their own changing up the sources and presenting it as their brainwave. no credits, no acknowledgment, no attribution.

That is WILD. What the hell!!!!!

Hello 👋 currently working for a super lovely brewery 4 days a week, doing sales & marketing, but I'm looking to pick up one extra day of work a week

I'm based around Newport & Cardiff, but can obvs work remotely. Can be administrative, and doesn't need to be in the drinks field. Any leads lmk! 🍎🍻🍴

•*•.• 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 •.•*•.

Our latest release is a saison dry hopped with a blend of Centennial, Saaz and Harlequin. Light spice, grapefruit, juicy 🍊🥤

Available now via our website and Sellar trade store!
Label designs by the wonderful Sophie Potter as per 💕

www.wildernessbrew.co.uk/shop

CraftCon is the best industry event of the year, imo. And the team are working so hard to put something really special together. A fantastic opportunity to connect with, learn from and taste alongside some of the best in the game and it would be lovely to see some of you there!

Burum 2025, fashionably late but we're finally here!

This means that all of the pieces from Service, Please! are now online, it means that The Usual is just around the corner, and it also means that the pitching guide for our next project is now live 🎉🍎

www.burumcollective.com/about/sixty-...

after a three year hiatus honk is back. you can either thank, or curse my wife depending on your feelings about it 🪿

anyway I wrote about a year in jam

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Our latest By the Glass tasting in Cardiff is a session on variety blends, looking at the flavour combinations of pairs of apples, and pairs of pears 💕

February 18th @ Bacareto
Pouring starts 7pm
Five drinks
£20pp

Hosted by @helenannesmith.bsky.social

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Al & Emma are the best ❤️

Knives Out but it's Benoit Blanc trying to solve the Luka-AD trade

[blind date]

HER: I'm a big country fan.

ME {trying to impress her}: China is very large.

Down the Docks, Up the Bay: The Colour Bar

Our final piece from Service, Please! is by Cardiff local Yasmin Begum on the colour bar in hospitality. Looking at her, and her family's experience of working in hospitality, and the docks history of Cardiff Bay.

www.burumcollective.com/posts/downth...

Gandalf the White saying, "Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth"

me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing: