Clarkshaws Brewery

Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next? How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

This is quite astonishing. Can’t pretend I understand it all, and am not sure I 100% agree with conclusions, but a social studies academic analyses pub closures in a totally different way from anyone else ever has and comes up with some extraordinary insights. laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lo...

Chaos on the Bermondsey Beer Mile Vomit, Trump costumes and a private equity landlord: Is London's craft beer Mecca doomed?

Good article about London's breweries based in railway arches and the behaviour of our landlord:

www.the-londoner.co.uk/chaos-on-the...

One of team Clarkshaws filling barrels of beer in the brewery.

Update on taproom reopening plans - we're currently deep cleaning, doing a few repairs and brewing, and hopefully we'll be open next Saturday (14th March). Will confirm next week...

Brewdog: Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as beer firm sold in £33m deal Beverage and cannabis company Tilray acquires the brewery, the brand and 11 bars after Brewdog went into administration.

Workers lose jobs, individual equity investors get wiped out.

PUNK ROCK!!!!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A guest at a brew day being shown how to measure the amount of water needed to mash in the grain by one of our team. They are looking at a metal vessel with a wooden lid and surrounded by buckets and jugs of different grains.

Spring is coming and we will be reopening our taproom very soon. Meanwhile there are tickets available to join us for a brew day and taste a range of beers on March 14th 10-2. Details here: www.clarkshaws.co.uk/events

Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

Rapid daylight gains. Every day we’re gaining 3 minutes 52 seconds of daylight in London and therefore ~28 minutes every week. Not far away from max rate which is 3 minutes 58 seconds through mid March.

Yep. I'm Lucy Grimshaw. We were office mates briefly when I was in the first year of my PhD and you were close to finishing.

Old Elvet seemed like a great place to live. Howlands was brand new and had great views, but was quite cut off. Not as badly as when Mairi and I ended up sharing a house in Ushaw Moor though!

The view was stunning but that winter during foot and mouth and the neverending rain and flooding that cut the trains off it really did get depressing.

I lived on the top floor of Grad Soc's Howlands site, so had a panoramic view south from Durham. I remember seeing smoke rising from all directions. Awful times.

A view of the dolomites looming over Cortina

Not really a thread guy but an interesting thing about the mountains around Cortina and throughout the Italian Alps is that they’re fundamentally shaped by global warming, only it happened 234 million years ago

Congratulations!

Pluviôse couldn't be more apt for the last few weeks.

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

This is terrible news. Des was always so kind whenever we met. He'll be really missed.

Watercolor painting I made of a great horned owl, barred owl, eastern screech owl, and elf owl sitting on a branch.

Barred owl sitting on a tree branch in Rock Creek Park, DC on Halloween 2015

A very merry Superb Owl day to all!

Oh no. That's terrible news. Des was always so kind and positive. A really lovely person.

Great chance to join the team at our neighbours the Platform Cafe:

We're still on our winter break for the next few weeks, but if you are missing our beers, we have some dates for you to put in your diary for events in the spring, starting with a chance to join us on a brew day on March 14th. www.clarkshaws.co.uk/events

Bathroom wall graffiti in black pen on a white wall that reads “you matter as much, if not more, as Patroclus mattered to Achilles”

Good morning

Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes? We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

A man with a beard, wearing a checked shirt and a baseball cap, pouring a jug of hops into a tank of boiling wort (the liquid that becomes beer after fermentation). In the background is a collection of brewing tools hanging on the wall of a railway arch.

Reminder that our taproom is closed for the next few weekends while we're on our winter break, but if you are missing our beers we do have some minikegs available, and you can treat yourself to tickets for our next Be a Brewer day on 14th March. Get in touch to purchase.

Fire on London's Loughborough Estate this morning. Seemingly now under control per @pollysmythe.bsky.social who is there on the ground, but will focus attention on an estate we've investigated wild claims of corruption and illegal chemical storage: www.londoncentric.media/p/the-london...

I think enough time has passed, and the hurt has diminished enough, for me to say: *I* do, Vampire Weekend. *I* give a fuck about an Oxford comma.

preparing for the next life and watching what happens there, but if that was meant to be a criticism of religion promising rewards after death to the neglect of this life, the book could have finished several hundred pages earlier!

Likewise, I expected it to go in a very different direction. Dodge finds himself in a new world that he could have shaped to be anything, but it ends up replicating established western worldviews, which I found deeply frustrating. I liked the idea that people end up spending more and more time

Same. I really enjoyed the beginning of Fall: Or Dodge in Hell, didn't like the middle and loathed the last third, so it felt like it went on forever.

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Gift link for the obituary of an absolute hero, put him in history textbooks and a middle grade biography, everyone should know his name and story.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

A snowman on a snowy background. Text reads: Quiz of the Year 2025 21 December at 3pm Test your knowledge! Mini-keg to be won! In-game prizes! £1 per person entry Max team size: 6

Last orders at the bar! Today is your last chance to have a beer at our taproom this year before our winter break. We're open from 2pm for our end of year party with loads of beers and vegan party snacks - bring a treat to share or just join us for a pint.
Pub quiz of the year starts at 3pm...