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BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans Self-styled ‘punk’ beer company bought land in 2020, pledging to plant Scotland’s ‘biggest ever forest’ The self-styled “punk” beer company BrewDog sold its Highland estate for a knockdown price after abandoning its efforts to plant Scotland’s “biggest ever forest” there. BrewDog’s co-founder James Watt claimed its Lost Forest project at Kinrara in the Cairngorms national park would cover a “staggering area” and capture tens of millions of tonnes of CO2 during its lifetime. Continue reading...

BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans

A group of women posing enthusiastically in front of the tanks in First & Last brewery. They are dressed in casual, warm clothing, with several people smiling and raising their arms in celebration.

Happy #IWCBD from First & Last Brewery in Northumberland!

Dudley says Hi Ruby 🐾

Magic Carpet adventures: Dudley's been dreaming on his favourite cushion. #RescueDogDudley

The Reading Ale Trail starts today - and we’re the launch venue. 🍻

Pick up a booklet, visit 24 pubs across Reading, collect your stickers, and earn the T-shirt.

Booklets available at the bar today.
Trail runs 7 March - 17 May. 📆

See you at the start line!

#ReadingAleTrail

The pub as an outpost of home Travelling for work recently I found myself profoundly grateful for the existence of the pub – somewhere not my lonely hotel room, not the office, an outpost of home. My job burns a lot of social ener...

BLOG POST: Ray writes about feeling the benefit of the homeliness of the pub when you're away from home. 🍺🍻

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A pint of Machard NEIPA with brewing equipment behind.

There just happens to be a brewery next to Montpellier Saint-Roch station...

www.microbrasserielabarbote.com

#craftbeer

You’d know all about joining wars late, America.

A photo from Friday night at Indie Beer Feast - Jules Gray (organiser of Sheffield Beer Week and the festival), me, Steve Lamond and Ian Garret

A fun few hours at the lovely Indie Beer Feast last night, loved chatting with Jules about the scene now vs back when it all started. It was great to hear how the European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 in Leeds was such a lodestone event for many

I have, fabulous pub. It had a connection to my friend Chris Holmes brewery. Also Notts Camra pub of the year at least once.

Nice to see our local Suffolk brewery supporting this event and celebrating their 40th anniversary.

Scottish Brewer Innis & Gunn bought by C&C. 105 job losses Scottish craft brewer Innis and Gunn has been bought out of administration by C&C who own Tennents lager. As a result the brewery and three taps will be closed with a loss of 105 jobs. C&C …

This also involves the closure of Inveralmond Brewery. Another sad loss @rogerprotz.bsky.social wp.me/p15p2Q-ghr

Quite right.

Hot on the heels of its frontrunner failed bid to buy BrewDog, Tennent's/Magners owner C&C buy Innis & Gunn. More jobs lost, more investors out of pocket

The unwritten law of beer writers when you arrive in Sheffield - you go here

Cheers Guy!

Excellent, keep on keeping on!

Hear, hear!

My piece in the current Private Eye on the brilliant revival of Jennings, saved from the axe of Carlsberg. #BskyBeer

Enjoy! One of my favourite revivalist Porters.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Manchester’s Best Beers, Pubs and Bars 2nd edition (2026) - CAMRA shop Guidebook to more than 220 pubs, bars, tap rooms and bottleshops in Manchester and its boroughs such as Bolton, Trafford and Rochdale. Available April 2, 2026

Pre-orders are the lifeblood for authors, especially for niche titles from small publishers like @camraofficial.bsky.social. You can now order the 2nd edition of Manchester's Best Beer, Pubs and Bars direct here:

shop1.camra.org.uk/product/manc...

Timeline cleanse:
Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches.

If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo.

But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.

Mix of old and new to celebrate major anniversary
protzonbeer.co.uk/news/2026/03...
@camraofficial.bsky.social

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A screenshot of @miroandrothko’s Instagram page, featuring a black cat and a tuxedo cat

They have their own Instagram page now 😂

www.instagram.com/miroandrothk...

Awww, I'm not on Insta.

The Charlton community is trying to save its pub

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/whiteswana...

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Just spotted a headline - the article behind a paywall - that nonetheless pleased me: "I'm a longevity doctor. This is why I'll never give up alcohol."