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Asking for a casking
February 10, 2025
Hello, A few days ago I noticed CAMRA’s current campaign, Handpump hijack. Now, you know me. I’m the type of idiot that gives myself a really hard time for...
Black gold
January 31, 2025
Hello, Right, time to finally get into my life as a Guinness mob boss. Or well, actually that was total hubris but for a short period of time I had the only...
Stewsday (repeat)
January 27, 2025
Not a stew (he is a fan of it, though) I don’t know why Buttondown won’t let me add alt text but this is a photo of Humphrey the enormous Newfoundland dog...
Getting up
January 26, 2025
Hello, I think I wanted to write about something nicer than this - like that my ales are selling out faster than I can tap them, which is incredibly great...
Ales, really
January 21, 2025
Hello, Writing this one in a froth of excitement, rather than annoyance, for once. My ales are here, my lines are connected, I’ve just hammered a float into...
Yes, it is time to ban discourse
January 14, 2025
Hello, Sorry, this was meant to be an update about my life as a Guinness mob boss. But unfortunately The Times has published a very stupid article and no one...
Ghosts in the lines
January 8, 2025
Hello, [Matt Berry voice] UK pubs are known for being infested with all kinds of ghoulies. Persistent, pernicious and per-fucking-spicuous, these horrid...
Wet January
January 4, 2025
Hello, Writing what’s basically an article but like, to people is weird, isn’t it? Writing at all is weird. A strange, unused muscle that still knows how to...
I am the manager now
December 29, 2024
Me, in my pub Hello, Quite a lot of these will be more philosophical than this and there’s plenty of weird pub lore and strange stories about my particularly...
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