Pete Brown
@petebrownbeer.bsky.social
Writer, speaker, consultant, mainly on beer, pubs, food, drink, social history. http://petebrown.net http://patreon.com/petebrownbeer Agent Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates.
A week today! We’re getting the Lancaster Music Festival going with beer and music pairing. Includes a beer I “helped” Lancaster Brewery develop. Get your tickets here - www.ticketsource.com/lancastermus...
"TASTING NOTES: Pairing Beer and Music" at The Stonewell Tap
Tickets are now available for TASTING NOTES: Pairing Beer and Music at The Stonewell Tap, Lancaster on Thursday 8th October 2026 at 5:30PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your ti...
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Pretty disgusting comments from Labour MP Jenny Ridell-Carpenter at the @labouruk.bsky.social conference this week, who equates a liking of dog-friendly country pubs with real ale (which she wrongly described as warm) with being on the far-right, at the same time as saying such pubs don’t exist.
Had a busy year of events this year. Just two more to go in October! If you're anywhere near Lancaster on Thursday 8th October, or Sheffield Wednesday 21st October, come and drink some beer and listen to some tunes! (And me.) www.petebrown.net/events/
Events Archive - Pete Brown
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This week in @thetimes.com - what makes a beer "premium"? Why do brewers care about it so much? Does anyone else? (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
What’s a premium beer — and does it really mean it’s better?
Whether or not it’s worth paying for expensive beers is all in the eye of the beer-holder
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A symphony of stone fruit on top of some light, gooey caramel. The new Fullers Vintage Ale, out this week. Yes, my camera angle has got wonkier. Last two beers were 8.4%.
To Brewers Hall, London for the Future of Cask seminar. Does cask have a future? Of course it does! We just need to figure out what that looks like. And then go and drink some cask.
Cracking weekend at Abergavenny Food Festival matchuing beer and music for 200 thirsty punters. Thanks to Wye Valley Brewery and Antur Brew Co for helping with beers, to the festival, and for a new-to-me audience for drinking, laughing and neurosciencing on a sunny Saturday afternoon!
Looking for to reading this! Lara has been one a formidable historian.
Lars Marius Garshol@larsga.bsky.social · 2w agoMy new book is finally out! A short, readable overall history of beer tracing the long lines in the development of beer. Seeing history like that inevitably brings out an overlooked side of the history of beer: beer as a source of massive power. Please repost! www.garshol.priv.no/download/pow...
This week in @thetimes.com (digital only this time) the revived beer brands coming back to life. Often better than the originals? Or empty nostalgia? (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
Boddingtons, Double Diamond and the old beers coming back to life
Déjà brew? Our expert welcomes the clever revival of some historic favourites
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Distressingly young version of me in this.
Roger Protz@rogerprotz.bsky.social · 2w agoDeep socio-political dive into pub history, 2004. Commentary myself, @petebrownbeer.bsky.social, Rowan Pelling, late Jeremy Hardy, Landlords. Covering rich archive, @camraofficial.bsky.social, monopolies&mergers, pubcos pub name battles. Warning: some unpleasant sexist archive.
Deep socio-political dive into pub history, 2004. Commentary myself, @petebrownbeer.bsky.social, Rowan Pelling, late Jeremy Hardy, Landlords. Covering rich archive, @camraofficial.bsky.social, monopolies&mergers, pubcos pub name battles. Warning: some unpleasant sexist archive.
BBC Four - Timeshift, The History of Pubs
Examining the core values of this definitively British institution.
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This week in @thetimes.com - yeah, sure, the packaging doesn't matter to you. It’s only the beer inside you care about. What’s outside is “just marketing”. But how do you spot that beer in the first place? A short piece on good beer packaging (paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
How beer design went wild — and our experts’ favourite labels
Our beer expert Pete Brown and art director Dan Biddulph on the beer branding that has caught their eye
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Suicide is the leading cause of death for 16–35s in the UK — the highest rates in 30 years. Young lives are being failed. Please can you sign the petition calling for more investment in proven support that saves young lives. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save young lives from suicide
Suicide is the leading killer of young people in the UK. Every day, an estimated 300 to 450 young people aged 16 to 35 attempt suicide, with rates now at their highest level in 30 years (Office for Na...
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Hell yes. It was a long time ago. I can’t remember if I was in an office overlooking Hyde Park, London, where I worked, watching in terror with my coworkers as the whole thing unfolded, or if I was heroically digging bodies out of the rubble with my bloodied bare hands. Dodgy memory these days.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4w agoHe's right, it was a long time ago. I can't remember if I was working on campus here in Princeton signing students into classes or if I was heroically leading the recovery effort at Ground Zero, bravely digging through rubble with my bare hands. Time, am I right?
Mornin’ Aged 34 and 33 respectively at the time (1982).
Saw this on instagram. It is a real ad. Start an actual business with NO KNOWLEDGE and no experience. This is where we’re at now. People actually believing. This great con, this pyramid scheme, that you can succeed brilliantly in a field where you have no talent or knowledge whatsoever, because AI.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. [Since everyone is quote posting vs actually RTing this]
Tess is Surviving the Horrors@mothmother.com · 4w agoRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Pubs for the People book launch 📆 22nd October 📍Waterstones, Trafalgar Square In conversation with @petebrownbeer.bsky.social Come one, come all to discuss nationalism, pubs, the good life and more 🍻📚 www.waterstones.com/events/pubs-...
We live in a world where fascist protest is not breaking the law, but holding up a sign saying “I oppose genocide” is terrorism. Fuck me.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w agoFar-right protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival
This week in @thetimes.com (online only this week I think) the six best beers in Sainsburys. Poor selection overall, but the Taste The Difference beers are well worth seeking out. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
The six best beers to buy from Sainsbury’s
Our expert reckons the range of drinks on offer at the UK’s second-biggest supermarket is a tad disappointing — but there are still some crackers on the shelves
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What’s the most bizarre, eccentric rule you've ever encountered imposed by a landlord in a pub?
Just realised you can’t be a pessimist unless you’re an optimist first. If you don’t have high hopes to begin with, how can those hopes be crushed by the grinding inevitably of fate?
This week in @thetimes.com, celebrating the squeezed middle - eight of Britain’s best traditional family brewers. (Paywall) www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
