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Hop Burns & Black
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Craft beer, hot sauce, natural wine, good times. #SouthLondonBestLondon
The Guardian, repeatedly: "Alcohol is bad for us and we shouldn't be drinking it"

Also The Guardian, on their nth feature of the year on the shittest alcohol around:
August 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
STILL GOT IT- Cheers to @petebrownbeer.bsky.social for including us in his round-up of the UK's best indie beer shops in Sunday Times Mag @thetimes.com (available online now). We're in great company too, with some of our fave beer shop pals also included. Thx Pete!🍻
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August 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Loved this piece, which completely reflects our thinking (& also gives us an excuse for being slack on our socials these days-we're not useless, we've moved to a "situationship" 😂). What we do like doing, though, is our weekly newsletter. Sign up?

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July 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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One of my favourite Saturday rituals. A beer top up at Deptford's @hopburnsblack.bsky.social, then a haircut at the awesome Strong Arm Steady.
#Bskybeer
June 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Our book The Beer Lover's Table was stolen. Greatly looking forward to this payout. Too soon to plan the party, @clairembullen.bsky.social ? 💰😂
Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
May 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Eagle-eyed viewers of last night's episode of #TheApprentice may have seen a @radiowammo.bsky.social dishing some spice on one of the teams' hot sauce creations as one of the assembled panel of "industry experts". You might also spot some familiar sauces! Catch the episode over on BBC iPlayer.
March 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Liverpool turning it on this evening 🌞
March 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Went to another epic party on Saturday and this was the warm up set, so many great tunes! Thanks @radiowammo.bsky.social 🥳🎉
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Jen's 50th birthday - Early Set at the Albion Rooms 22/2/25
An excellent intro to a very, very special night, Glenn warming up for the only and only Conrad McDonnell from the mighty Idjut Boys. Turning 50 has never been so much fun xx
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February 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Come for the music, stay for Glenn wearing Cilla Black's actual jacket 🎉
If you like music you're gonna love this set from @hopburnsblack.bsky.social 5 hours of absolutely killer tunes!🪩 www.mixcloud.com/hopburnsblac... 🥳🏆
February 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Our wonderful neighbour Sid of #SidsFlowers has really outdone herself with this year's Valentine's bunches. Support small independents & pick up a bunch with your coffee, cans or bottles today at the East Dulwich Road shop ♥️💐
February 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The world's dullest hot sauce column in today's @theguardian.com... Annoys us every time we see features centred on supermarkets when there is so much better out there. Online shopping means it's just as easy to buy from indie makers too, so no excuse. Do better!
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
The best hot sauces, tasted and rated by Thomasina Miers
Our Mexican food specialist gives us her take on hot sauces from UK supermarkets
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Met this friendly little fella at Barbados's awesome Andromeda Botanic Garden during our travels. Perhaps he'd come to remind us all that @pressuredropbrw.bsky.social One Day We'll All Be Crabs has landed with us this week... 🍻🦀
January 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We're live now on our @mixcloud.bsky.social channel from the Forest floor. Join us at Forest North Cross Road if you fancy, or tune in x

www.mixcloud.com/live/hopburn...
December 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Love to see this. Golden rule when cooking with beer - one for the pot, one for the chef 👩‍🍳🍻
Better late than never, I have made the Christmas pudding. Now drinking up the rest of the beer that I put in. Tropical Stout from the Kernel Brewery. A good choice I think.
December 5, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Really excited to launch our latest 10th anniversary collab - #9 of 10. We've been keeping this one under wraps until now - made with the legendary Whole Beast, realised by Lazy Scientist Sauces, and paying tribute to the sound of the summer. We love this! ♥️

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November 30, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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Had a lovely evening celebrating @hopburnsblack.bsky.social 10th Birthday last night. Very much enjoyed their @kernelbrewery.bsky.social collab on cask as well.

Cheers to Jen & Glenn!
November 21, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Hola! Both shops are closing early at 7pm tonight so that our team can raise a glass with us @kernelbrewery.bsky.social for our 10th birthday! We'd love to see you there - head on down from 6pm & try our two new collabs with The Kernel & Floc + the best food you'll find at a taproom anywhere 🎉
November 20, 2024 at 12:19 PM