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News, nuggets and longreads 7 March 2026: The Lonely Londoners Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pub influencers, brewery sales and buzzers. We usually start these round-ups with an item or two of beer...

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with a bit on BrewDog, and several links that connect with and echo each other in pleasing ways on influencers and gentrification. 🍻🍺

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Ah, the leaps not taken.

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By "fresh" you mean packaged more recently, right? As opposed to tasting fresh?

The craft beer boom is over. These new breweries find hope in staying small. A new crop of craft brewery owners believe that quality beer is a must, but it’s everything else — hospitality, food, trivia nights — that will decide their fate.

Remember why they were/are called microbreweries? (gift link)

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Luna introduces flavour with a 'u' - HOP QUERIES In a press release announcing that the experimental hop previously known at HPA-033 will be called Luna, Hop Products Australia states, “Just like our customers, our hops are big characters. When choo...

It wasn't long ago hops weren't described like this: "A hop that is distinguished by lush mango, dark berry and spicy citrus characters."

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Text: "Chimay introduces Chimay Yellow, a new 6.5% blonde Trappist beer" Photo: stock shot of a bottle of Chimay yellow and a glass full of beer in a branded Chimay chalice, on an outdoor wooden table

hi, trappist brewery expert here! this is not funny, trappist breweries only do this when they're in extreme distress.

YouTube video by Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) The American journey, from German lagers to citra-hopped IPAs

If you missed my talk on American beer culture last week, here’s the video. We discussed how German immigrants turned the U.S. into a beer country, and then how during the craft era Americans invented a new way of thinking about and brewing hoppy ales.

Do you really want to visit the best pub in town? Modern tourism is often defined by a desire to see, visit, eat and drink the best a city has to offer. But everyone has a different idea of what ‘the best pub’ means.

BLOG POST: In pursuit of 'the best in town' people often end up in pubs they hate. 🍻🍺

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"Really? Nearly 80% of respondents say they understand the differences among IPA styles. I am not sure 80% of professional brewers understand the differences between IPA styles."

American Craft Beer Hall of Fame has 8 new members.

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Glitter beer's got to qualify.

News, nuggets and longreads 28 February 2026: Kairo Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Leeds, Manchester, Chicago and more.

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with good writing about beer and pubs from the past week. This time: drinking up north, the anti-sports bar, and the benefits of being weird. 🍻🍺

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Deep Inside My Heart — Hopleaf, Chicago’s Beer Bar — Pellicle 33 years after it stopped airing, Cheers still embodies the ideal of the neighbourhood bar for many Americans. The place where everybody knows your name has become such a shorthand for this imagin...

Who can resist a shout out to the Cadieux Cafe and feather bowling?

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But, of course. Indigenous alcohol. Ugandan terroir.

Urban Garden Brewing to Open First Permanent Home in Shaw | DC Beer We don't normally reprint press releases, but Urban Garden Brewing will be the first Black-owned brewery in the DMV, and the first Black woman-owned

Good morning, please welcome the first Black-owned, and Black woman-owned, brewery in the DMV.

Bootstrap joined the Left Hand Collective last week. Means beers will eventually be brewed at Left Hand (which nearby). Good people -- they make their brewhouse area available for NHC first round judging.

An Afternoon With Pliny The Younger | Defector Sunday was a rather dry sporting day, even if you include the “discovery” of Kevin Durant’s supposed burner account. The combination of the NBA’s All-Star break and the Milan Cortina Olympics delivere...

"But because this beer is served in a bar, and because bars have television screens, you will find yourself not drinking the beer theatrically, as though you were born with a beret, a pencil-thin moustache, and a pack of Gauloises rolled up your sleeve."

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News, nuggets and longreads 21 February 2026: Bonspiel Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got bar work, BrewDog and Yorkshire squares.

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, rounding up the most interesting writing about beer from the past week. 🍻🍺

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This is from the midst of a thread worth exploring in its entirety. Now I want a "Well, Berlin doesn't" T-shirt.

Queries 9.10: All Cascade edition - HOP QUERIES * Hop quiz * Cascade Cup * Cascade Agenda * Hop quiz answer Welcome to Volume 9, No. 10. Wonder what happened at the 2026 American Hop Convention? I filed a report for Brewing Industry Guide. One take...

Hop Queries 9.10 has shipped. Maybe because it is longer than usual and includes multiple images, I've already heard it has landed in some spam folders. Subscribers, please check yours. Otherwise, it is archived here:

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A Flavorist Dishes Up Some Tasty Insights - Randy Mosher Back in 2018, at the very beginning of my work on Your Tasting Brain, I reached out to some experts in various aspects of the chemical senses and the things we use them for. One of them was Mary Svobo...

If you aren't signed up to get Randy Mosher's transmissions via email you are missing good stuff. He also posts them at his site. Here is the latest.

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Will spend my morning considering if "anything related to beer is about new or old money."

Calendar marked.

"If you can see a fish tail it might be a Yorkshire square, but only if the vessel is divided by a deck too."

News, nuggets and longreads 14 February 2026: The Crying of Lot 49 Every Saturday we round up the week's best writing about beer. This time, we’ve got alcohol-free beer, Guinness, and AF Guinness. Sigh.

GOOD MORNING! Here's our weekly round up of the best writing about beer and pubs from the past week, with slightly too many mentions of Guinness and alcohol-free beer, once again. 🍻🍺

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Booze up!

Rhapzody newest hop variety on the block - HOP QUERIES Clayton Hops in New Zealand has given the name Rhapzody to the experimental hop variety formerly known CIP 014, bred in partnership with the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science (formerly Plan...

“Intense tropical, passionfruit and pineapple character."

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Ahh, those guys. Sharing their beer knowledge & misreading my *withering look* for an *impressed face*.

All this stuff about how to follow and keep in touch with blogs and we forgot to mention the most old skool option there is: bookmark the ones you like; go through your bookmarks folder once in a while when you're bored. You don't necessarily need it delivered in a feed at all.

The Guide is saddened to hear of the passing of beer writer Des de Moor.

He was generous in sharing his extensive knowledge of the London beer scene and it was always a pleasure to cross paths and compare notes.

RIP Des, the next beer is for you 🍻