Pinning for the Beer Hordes

After a very quiet August, beer sales picked up again but I’m going through pins like no ones business. Sales of 4.5 gallons were generally the sole preserve of my dark beers or the bastard strength ones but since the end of the summer holidays I’ve got constant orders of places needing only a half

Wokester’s Brewery – Mermaids Statement

Hello fellow Xir/Xe, It has come to our attention that one of the charities we and many in the brewing world have been pushing for a number of years is being met, not only a level of hate unprecedented for our times, not only with horrendous levels of biased reporting about not being duly diligent

Sunshine on Keith

Seeing Keir Starmer dancing on the head of a pin over his beer and curry evening, all of high virtue, high morals and a high self opinion, highlighted that if he has to resign he really does have all the attributes needed to run a modern craft brewery. He has already got a sympathetic and

WetherVane Boycott

Boycotting things, anything, is a sliding scale of difficulty and rationality. For example, since I was a teen I don’t buy Coca-Cola products* *For myself. *That I know of. The great tentacles of a global multinational stretch into many facets of life so unless you do some time consuming research, simply not buying something in

Brewing Pride

I type this waiting for some inevitable fall. My dad tells me he likes the beer I make. He has too. My friends tell me they like the beer I make. Which is something unexpected sometimes. I don’t really care much for the views of the influencers, those with useless tasting qualifications, the numerous fatuous

From R****a With Hate

Two years removed from a country of unspecified name releasing a virus of gained function onto an unsuspecting world, what followed was a campaign of #StopAsianHate Asia is a big continent. Asian is used a descriptor for quite a lot of people and in quite nefarious ways to, mainly to avoid to be seen to

Camra Obscura

A 50 year experiment in circling the drain. What is Camra now but a glorified ents officer? An organisation that tried to revitalise but never really committed to it because it’s existence is futile. An organisation who long lost any sense of purpose or direction as those leading it became slowly distanced from the bulk

Wokester’s Brewery – Brewdog Statement

Hello Avid Drinker, It causes us no pleasure to write this carefully worded statement which will carry all the sentiment of an apology but will absolve us of any actual responsibility. We did not see the documentary regarding the working practices of Brewdog as we are boycotting the BBC since they never gave comrade Jezza

Pub Gambit – Bar Sacrifice

It is very hard to remember that the real hurt and fall out from public lock downs and endless restrictions caused initially by the virus of unspecified origin, will occur some time down the line. How far down the line, who knows? But it was hard not to realise on a crawl of my local

Lightly Battered Twats

First off, to all American readers, it is not pronounced so that it rhymes with not, I don’t know why you do this but it is wrong, we gave you a language, please use it correctly. When pronouncing the last word of the title of this piece, lean hard into the “at.” Secondly, any business