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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

A lovely tribute to such a lovely man ❤️

Des de Moor obituary Other lives: Cabaret club entrepreneur, singer and performer who also wrote extensively about real ale

Obituary for Des de Moor now online at the Guardian

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

Photo of the Double-Barrelled team in their taproom.

Time for a Friday thread:

Some of you may recall that a couple of years ago our good mates and local heroes Double-Barrelled helped us with extra capacity whilst we completed some upgrades at Elusive HQ.

Well, these absolute legends are helping us out again ↓

Swedish Students Break Months-Old World's Smallest Beer Bottle Record How small can a beer bottle get? A student team from Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology just shattered the world record with a 3D-printed Carlsberg bottle that is one-third the size of the pre...

A student team from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has broken the record for the world’s smallest beer bottle, completing a challenge from Carlsberg.

thedieline.com/swedish-stud...

ICYMI, Amélie was in the news yesterday, as she recently spoke to @drinksmaven.bsky.social at @teamdb.bsky.social as part of their Beer Hour series, talking about Tipple and her work for @womeninbeer.bsky.social

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

With today's update, you can now rearrange your pinned feeds by simply dragging and dropping. Much more convenient!

To edit your pinned feeds, go here: bsky.app/settings/sav...

I’ll make sure I post their cheeky little faces on here occasionally, too 😊

36 Hours in Bologna, Italy: Things to Do and See (Gift Article) While Emilia-Romagna’s capital still thrives on traditions like tagliatelle al ragù and mortadella, new openings are taking the city in refreshing directions.

Travel articles usually take about a month to write & edit. This might be my record: I got back home late on a Sunday; 10 days + 5 hours later, “36 Hours in Bologna, Italy” went live on @nytimes.com.
Great food, beer (Ca’ del Brado!) art & more.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Last weekend, I had the honor of attending the Barcelona Beer Challenge 2026, one of the most prestigious international beer competitions.
As an International Beer Judge, I found the event exceptionally well-run—possibly the best-organized competition I've attended so far! Just wow! ¡Muchas gracias

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...

Beer Hour: Amelie Tassin Amelie Tassin tells Jessica Mason about her roles as both the founder of Tipple Marketing, an agency that works with the beer and hospitality industry, as well as having founded Women In Beer, the col...

Beer Hour: Amelie Tassin @teamdb.bsky.social

Thanks, Roger 😊

Now I’ve just got to remember to keep logging my CPD hours…

Documentary retells the story of a community saving its village pub A new documentary, telling the true story of a village’s fight to save its last local pub, has premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival. db finds out more.

Documentary retells the story of a community saving its village pub @teamdb.bsky.social

My search for the perfect brown bar in Amsterdam I swerved the tourist traps and went on a bar crawl of the city’s bruine kroegen, the cosy, dimly lit pubs that are the Netherlands’ ‘surrogate living rooms’

Starting the day reading about bruine kroegen in Amsterdam: www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

See you both there!

A simple German woodcutting from 1490 showing a Renaissance dude on the right who is having a lower back spasm so bad his right shoe was blown clean off. On the left is a witch (“eine Hexe") with a bow and arrow who just shot him in the back. (Otherwise, why would his back hurt? Hexenschuss!) The engraving is credited to Johann Zainer as was taken from the book “Tractatus von den bösen weibern, die man hexen nennt,” or “Treatise on evil women, who are called witches,“ by Ulrich Molitor.

The Czech word for lower back pain or lumbago is hexenšus, which is borrowed from a German word, Hexenschuss.
The first time I heard it I was like, “Oh, like a witch just shot you in the back? That’s what you think happened?”
Dear reader, at one point, that’s exactly what they thought.

Coltiva Italia punta su birra artigianale e turismo birrario Emendamenti al DDL Coltiva Italia: nasce il turismo brassicolo, semplificazioni per microbirrifici e fondi alla filiera della birra artigianale.

Italy moves toward official “beer tourism” 🍺
The "Coltiva Italia" bill introduces beer routes, tax simplifications for microbreweries and new funds for the craft beer supply chain.
If it passes it will be a major step for Italian craft beer and local economies 🇮🇹 www.pintamedicea.com/birra/2026/c...

PEOPLE ENJOY THE SUNNY AUTUMN AFTERNOON AT THE PUBLIC SQUARE MIRADOURO DE SANTA CATARINA IN LISBON. GETTY IMAGES

Bookmarking this one to read later: Portugal’s Antique Drink Kiosks Might Be the Cure for Modern Loneliness: www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/travel/quiosques-kiosk-bars-portugal

(via @wineenthusiast.bsky.social)

All ready for install at @queenshall.bsky.social #Hexham later in the week!

Shadow on the Things You Know opens on Friday at 6.30pm! See you there?

Half a hazy IPA on the bar with the handpump behind it

Interior view of one of the off corridor rooms in the swan york. A leaded window is in the background and some stools, tables and upholstered bench seats

Exterior view of the swan york. A corner pub, two storey high, cream off white exterior

I've not had a Tun beer before. This Little Monster session NZ IPA is excellent. Highly recommended by the barman at The Swan, York and deservedly so.

Today marks the first day of meteorological spring 🌷

March has arrived, and with it comes longer, lighter days. Over the next few weeks most of us will enjoy around two extra hours of daylight ☀️

Glitter beer's got to qualify.

Happy anniversary to you both! ❤️

Bryan Ferry in The Crown Hotel on Elswick Road. Nice socks.

The foreground features two pint glasses filled with best bitter, topped with a thin layer of frothy white foam, with lacing down each glass (in tighter rings on the left pint glass). They are sitting on a dark, circular table in a traditional pub.

Went to the pub last night. We had some pints and talked about the darts. Take a look at that lacing (and how my mini sips compare to Neil’s mega gulps)

Beer = Best Bitter from @stfermentations.bsky.social

CraftCon and Cider Communications with Rachel Hendry Adam catches up with CraftCon organiser and communications expert Rachel Hendry

Adam catches up with @3ccpa.bsky.social CraftCon organiser and communications expert, the wonderful Rachel Hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social, to talk cider, conferences and newsletters.

Will you be attending?

Thank you, Neil