Today, 300 years after porter appeared, the black beer segment is healthier than it has been for at least a century and a half, with stout the fastest growing style of beer globally, and China having become the largest market for stout in the world.
Still only on the introduction and amazing stuff in Martyn Cornell's Porter and Stout book. China's the world's biggest stout market!
Fantastic!
Orval has Brett.
#OtD 7 Mar 1921 the repression of the Kronstadt Rebellion against the Bolsheviks, demanding worker self-governance and freedom for socialist prisoners began. It was brutally crushed by the Red Army led by Trotsky and hundreds were executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1072...
The building made it into Wikipedia's lamest edit wars: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wallow in your stench!
Bask in your glory!
Respect!
When I worked at a company that went bust the guy that came round making a list didn't speak to us. I don't think they don't care.
Obituary for Des de Moor now online at the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...
A reminder that there are young people in the UK who have been held in prison for up to two years without conviction for allegedly dismantling weapons of genocide.
The government has been proven wrong on all accusations against them so far.
Meanwhile:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Gosh, I missed that too.
I can remember how delighted I was when, totally unexpectly, I spotted an out of print book I'd been after for ages on a small second hand book table in a community centre. I guess I could find it easily online now, which whilst more efficient would have taken the joy out of it.
I hope we have passed peak sheep. I'd like to see more hills with trees on them.
I knew I had seen a similar thing somewhere before
Labour is a far right party
You'll have to wait till July for Tom Paine!
Apart from being brown wouldn't London Pride do the job?
Does this mean I should stop using his business book as my bible???
Charlotte's voice is the one I was waiting for on this.
open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
"Equity For Punks" explained #BrewDog
One for @joebankswriter.bsky.social
Didn't exactly have to be Nostradamus though. It's been all bad news from brewdog for a long while.
I was right that brewdog were circling the drain back in October. edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/10/time...
I can't help but think that this whole lesser evil thing still sounds just plain evil.
All keg :-(
It was one of those fruity sour beers. Maybe the lollipop is needed to make the taste go away?
A beer with a lollipop clipped to it.
An abomination unto the lord at Cold Town House last night.
Rumbala, rumbala, rumbala!
A framed and signed map of Terry Pratchett's discworld
I'm ahead of you on that one (though it was left by a person I was sharing the house with).
They won't do cask beer there.
