Will Hawkes
@willhawkes.bsky.social
Writes about food, beer, travel. Author of Telegraph’s 500 Best Pubs in England & @LondonBeerCity, monthly missive on pubs & beer. Fortnum and Mason Drink Writer of the Year 2021 & 2023
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November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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thank you to everyone who has pre ordered a zine! we are halfway to our pre order target already which is HUGE. you can get a cap now also! they’re gorgeous imo. the whole project is fun and beautiful and silly and i’m so proud of what we’ve created!
Get a copy here ⬇️
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Get a copy here ⬇️
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November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
thank you to everyone who has pre ordered a zine! we are halfway to our pre order target already which is HUGE. you can get a cap now also! they’re gorgeous imo. the whole project is fun and beautiful and silly and i’m so proud of what we’ve created!
Get a copy here ⬇️
www.burumcollective.com/jlp
Get a copy here ⬇️
www.burumcollective.com/jlp
Pleased to see one of those out in the wild - or, to give it its proper name, East London (lol rofl). At the marvellous Pembury Tavern.
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Pleased to see one of those out in the wild - or, to give it its proper name, East London (lol rofl). At the marvellous Pembury Tavern.
Saw my first Christmas Tree o’ the season this evening. 6 November! Gets earlier every year
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Saw my first Christmas Tree o’ the season this evening. 6 November! Gets earlier every year
This is niche, but might be useful for some. According to my personal HMRC-employed tax advisor (wife), the rules relating to freelance journalists going on paid press trips/being sent free samples, etc, has not changed. The new guidance is more for influencers who, for e.g., are receiving ... 1/2
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is niche, but might be useful for some. According to my personal HMRC-employed tax advisor (wife), the rules relating to freelance journalists going on paid press trips/being sent free samples, etc, has not changed. The new guidance is more for influencers who, for e.g., are receiving ... 1/2
Is it me or is this BBC bar chart awful? Why does it start from 0 years old?! People don't play Test cricket at the age of 0, not even Don Bradman. Goodness
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Is it me or is this BBC bar chart awful? Why does it start from 0 years old?! People don't play Test cricket at the age of 0, not even Don Bradman. Goodness
Wow, quite rude of @bathedailey.bsky.social to do this portrait of me without asking permission - but it does give me an opportunity to promote this opinion-packed pub package featuring my views on cocktails (no) & taking glasses back ➡️ the bar (yes)
Taking empties back to the bar for @pelliclemag.com's latest multi-contributor Essential guide to pub etiquette: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Wow, quite rude of @bathedailey.bsky.social to do this portrait of me without asking permission - but it does give me an opportunity to promote this opinion-packed pub package featuring my views on cocktails (no) & taking glasses back ➡️ the bar (yes)
Wetherspoons' sales currently up 3.7 percent on last financial year, according to Propel: "Bar sales increased by 5.7%, food by 0.9% and slot/fruit machines by 8.9%, while hotel room sales decreased by 6.3%. Total sales have grown by 4.2% in the year to date"
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Wetherspoons' sales currently up 3.7 percent on last financial year, according to Propel: "Bar sales increased by 5.7%, food by 0.9% and slot/fruit machines by 8.9%, while hotel room sales decreased by 6.3%. Total sales have grown by 4.2% in the year to date"
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The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
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Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
I’ve now tried the new Boddington’s. It’s fine. Presumably this is not the same beer elderly Mancunians have spent decades tearfully eulogising?
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’ve now tried the new Boddington’s. It’s fine. Presumably this is not the same beer elderly Mancunians have spent decades tearfully eulogising?
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My home town tonight. Rewind to about -2.28 for the start of the good shit.
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Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival 2025
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November 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My home town tonight. Rewind to about -2.28 for the start of the good shit.
www.youtube.com/live/GnjkM3N...
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Anyway next weeks Pellicle piece is a fucking banger. Maybe our bangingest banger yet? Nine people worked on it, all got paid. We’re a micro entity with a turnover of 50k a year, if we can manage it everyone else sure as hell can
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Anyway next weeks Pellicle piece is a fucking banger. Maybe our bangingest banger yet? Nine people worked on it, all got paid. We’re a micro entity with a turnover of 50k a year, if we can manage it everyone else sure as hell can
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Spooooky Halloween special for @pelliclemag.com this month. It’s Halloween somewhere 💁♀️
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October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Spooooky Halloween special for @pelliclemag.com this month. It’s Halloween somewhere 💁♀️
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I wrote something on my phone while sitting on my train to Lincoln, and liked it, so I decided to publish it. A little something about grief, and travel, and Jaipur in the Sheffield Tap.
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www.totalales.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wrote something on my phone while sitting on my train to Lincoln, and liked it, so I decided to publish it. A little something about grief, and travel, and Jaipur in the Sheffield Tap.
www.totalales.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
www.totalales.co.uk/blog/2025/10...
Guinness’s new brewery/venue in London finally has an opening date: 11th December. As revealed in @londonbeercity.bsky.social a year ago (!), head brewer will be Hollie Stephenson: imbibemagazine.com/hollie-steph...
2019 Beer Person of the Year: Hollie Stephenson
Hollie Stephenson, our 2019 Beer Person of the Year, is taking something old and making it freshly brewed at Baltimore’s experimental Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House, Guinness’ first U.S. brewery sin...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Guinness’s new brewery/venue in London finally has an opening date: 11th December. As revealed in @londonbeercity.bsky.social a year ago (!), head brewer will be Hollie Stephenson: imbibemagazine.com/hollie-steph...
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Good morning from my inbox where I have 14 (fourteen) pitches I would like to commission, but I don't have the budget to fund any of them. I keep banging on about this, but @pelliclemag.com needs more subscribers if it is to continue. Please spread the word.
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Good morning from my inbox where I have 14 (fourteen) pitches I would like to commission, but I don't have the budget to fund any of them. I keep banging on about this, but @pelliclemag.com needs more subscribers if it is to continue. Please spread the word.
Patreon.com/pelliclemag
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I walked past The Crown in Brum the other day. It now has pictures of Black Sabbath - a band which, to all intents and purposes, was born at the pub - on the windows. Not sure if this is a good or bad sign
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I walked past The Crown in Brum the other day. It now has pictures of Black Sabbath - a band which, to all intents and purposes, was born at the pub - on the windows. Not sure if this is a good or bad sign
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Pubs outperforming the rest of the on-trade, according to CGA.
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Pubs outperforming the rest of the on-trade, according to CGA.
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What happens when you say, “Is there anything I can do?” and they say, “Yes, actually.” 😱
The unfortunate merging of child care, history and a hangover. @deserterblog.bsky.social
The unfortunate merging of child care, history and a hangover. @deserterblog.bsky.social
Pub Culture
Pubs are living history. Let's get learning
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October 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
What happens when you say, “Is there anything I can do?” and they say, “Yes, actually.” 😱
The unfortunate merging of child care, history and a hangover. @deserterblog.bsky.social
The unfortunate merging of child care, history and a hangover. @deserterblog.bsky.social
Defeatists: Nothing is ‘made in England’ anymore 😔
Stockton-on-Tees:
Stockton-on-Tees:
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Defeatists: Nothing is ‘made in England’ anymore 😔
Stockton-on-Tees:
Stockton-on-Tees:
200 years on from the first passenger trains, does the English rail network still live up to its original purpose: to facilitate pub crawls? Over the next two days I plan to find out 🫡
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
200 years on from the first passenger trains, does the English rail network still live up to its original purpose: to facilitate pub crawls? Over the next two days I plan to find out 🫡
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Last month's @londonbeercity.bsky.social is now online, featuring the LBA beer festival, various comings and goings, & what remains of the Firkin chain. Peace out www.willhawkes.net/blog/2025/10...
October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Last month's @londonbeercity.bsky.social is now online, featuring the LBA beer festival, various comings and goings, & what remains of the Firkin chain. Peace out www.willhawkes.net/blog/2025/10...
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GOOD MORNING! It's Saturday which means it's time for news, nuggets and longreads, this week with an accidental focus unremarkable pubs and places and how they can still be magical. 🍺🍻
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News, nuggets and longreads 18 October 2025: Gish
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Bonn, Brussels and Borough.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
GOOD MORNING! It's Saturday which means it's time for news, nuggets and longreads, this week with an accidental focus unremarkable pubs and places and how they can still be magical. 🍺🍻
boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...
boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...
Last month's @londonbeercity.bsky.social is now online, featuring the LBA beer festival, various comings and goings, & what remains of the Firkin chain. Peace out www.willhawkes.net/blog/2025/10...
October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Last month's @londonbeercity.bsky.social is now online, featuring the LBA beer festival, various comings and goings, & what remains of the Firkin chain. Peace out www.willhawkes.net/blog/2025/10...
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Long Live Les Brasseurs
#120: Les Brasseurs, Saturday, 10.09pm
Bar sketches
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October 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Long Live Les Brasseurs