On a Saturday afternoon, Johns off-licence, in St Ives, is generally bustling, but now there's another reason to drop in with the opening of a cosy bar. Small but perfectly...
A Lacuna pale ale in Johns’ new St Ives bar
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Sail We Must on the seafront in St Ives
It's St Patrick's Day, and across the world vast quantities of Guinness are being put away (stocks permitting), but this weekend I plumped for a local option. Last week,...
Blog: Get to the pub. There’s a penny off a pint
Remember the penny off a pint promised in the Budget last autumn? Well, today it comes into being as alcohol duty rates are re-aligned. It’s part of “a package of support to...
The Weekender: What future for individual pubs?
It's bad enough that we are losing our pubs at such a high rate, but will the ones which are left be devoid of any character? Photograph: Gerald England/Creative Commons I...
The Weekender: Jimmy Carter, estate pubs, and community pubs
Welcome to The Weekender, a round-up of items from around the web which have caught my eye, outside of the day-to-day beer business. How Jimmy Carter changed US brewing...
We can overcome The Great Guinness Crisis
A couple of Fridays back, I attended trade night for St Austell Brewery's Celtic Beer Festival, and at the end of the evening a quartet of us diehards enjoyed a nightcap at...
This Celtic Beer Festival was one of the greats
The annual Celtic Beer Festival took place at St Austell Brewery on Saturday, and in my view this was one of the best of the 23 staged over the years. Left to right:...
Pub of the season award for the Star Inn, Vogue
The Star Inn, at Vogue, has been named pub of the season by members of Cornwall CAMRA (CAMRA Kernow). Mark and Rachel Graham, licensees at The Star Inn, Vogue, with their...
Lotte Peplow: My Great American Beer Festival
Lotte Peplow, the Brewers Association’s American craft beer ambassador for Europe, dives into the latest craft beer trends from the new-look Great American Beer Festival....