Features

The Six Bells in St Michaels Village, St Albans, has won several awards from CAMRA for the quality of its cask ales. Jo and Patrick Remmington have history, from as far back as Roman times, all around them but they have to live in a real world of intense competition in the pub trade

Added: Monday, June 17th 2013

From the archive November 2011: beers brewed by Trappist monks at the Westvleteren abbey in Belgium are eagerly awaited and can be bought only when the message goes out over the bush telegraph that a new brew is available. Pictured: Brother Joris in the brewhouse

Added: Tuesday, June 11th 2013

Meantime's brewmaster has to pinch himself to believe the awesome success of his South London brewery. His lagers and pale ales are in great demand in the capital and beer sales are growing so fast he may need new premises in three years' time

Added: Saturday, May 25th 2013

When a pub in South London was threatened with closure to be turned into private housing, loyal customers banded together to raise the funds to buy it. Now the Ivy House, once a major 'pub rock' venue, will reopen later this year

Added: Wednesday, May 8th 2013

The Black Horse pub in Barnet, North London, has its own small brewery and its beers use the finest Maris Otter malting barley grown by farmer Teddy Maufe in Norfolk, who uses solar panels to ensure his grain gets maximum sunshine

Added: Saturday, May 4th 2013

As Marston's launches its Single Hop beers for 2013, Simon Yates discusses the essential ingredients of the amazing plant that adds aroma and bitterness to beer

Added: Saturday, April 13th 2013

Graham Yates has brewed beer and pulled pints at the Brunswick Inn in Derby for more than a decade. But now he's retired, leaving the world's first railway workers' pub in good hands for the future

Added: Tuesday, April 9th 2013

The stunning medieval town of Bamberg in German Franconia is famous for its Rauch or smoked beer, with malt cured over beechwood to give a distinctive tang to the beer.

Added: Saturday, March 9th 2013

Hook Norton, the most traditional of English breweries, with wooden mash tuns and fermenters, and deliveries by horse-drawn drays, has launched a new beer aimed at modern younger drinkers

Added: Wednesday, February 27th 2013

One of Belgium's famous cities stages a beer festival in a magnificent medieval setting. There are also great bars to enjoy, such as 't Brugs Beertje (left) while a 19th-century brewery has reopened. And there's a brilliant guide book to help you find the best bars

Added: Thursday, February 7th 2013