This year’s new feature is a new category, Women Collective of the Year, sponsored by CAMRA. The deadline for submissions closes on August 30.
At the beginning of the 18th century, London was not the refined capital that Victorian literature would later suggest; it was a crowded, hungry, growing metropolis, the setting for what historians call the ‘gin craze’.
While some sectors advocated for a full return to the imperial system, others preferred to maintain the metric system officially adopted in 1965.
Fuller’s London Pride is one of England’s most iconic beers and a true emblem of the Best Bitter style, appreciated by generations of beer lovers around the world.
The British tradition of Cask Ale predates even the appearance of beer as we know it today on the islands. Surely when Shakespeare went to his favorite pub, they served his favorite ale this way.
In just a few moments, a tsunami of thousands of liters of beer devastated the Saint Giles neighborhood in London, causing a genuine tragedy: what history remembers as the London Beer Flood of 1814.
