The Morning Advertiser gives the news today of a European Beer Consumers Union constitution which will be signed on 24 June. It sounds rather official.

Ireland is still the second-biggest beer-drinking market in the world, after the Czech Republic. But beer consumption has declined 15% since 2001. Rural pubs were closing last year at the rate of more than one a day...

I forgot a rule. What is the point of having rules if you forget them? It's not a bad rule. And it is sensible. Make sure your photos are not gia-nor-mous. See, I have a 2003 coal fired computer on the desk top. A Pentium 5 or something like that. If...

Sipping a moderately good San Marino amber ale, I am all a giggle on a Friday evening. The first entries are coming in and we have a big prize announcement. Once lucky winner in the world will receive an autographed copy of Pete Brown's excellent 2009...

Interesting to read about the state of beer and... err... other beverages which have spent decades below the sea in shipwrecks: Take the case of the divers who opened and drank one of eight bottles of beer they recovered from the Loch Shiel off the...

Was it something I said? Did you all have photos of that beer and that dinner you had back last March some place and you are really ticked off at the photo context prohibition on your art form? For some reason, the email has gone cold. Cold as the...

I must say that when Martyn and Ron both decide that enough is enough on one day, well, that is a day to be noted. First, Martyn: I paired Atlantic IPA with another beer I knew would be towards the hop bomb end of the shelf, Sierra Nevada Anniversary...