Emma Inch
@emmainch.bsky.social
multi award-winning writer | academic | UK Beer Writer of the Year 2018 | co-author: World’s Greatest Beers | producer: Same Again? mental health podcast | erstwhile rockabilly DJ | she/her | 🏳️🌈 | trans ally 🏳️⚧️
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Emma Inch
@emmainch.bsky.social
· Feb 28
I'm still new to Bluesky, so here's a bit of info for those who don't know me. I'm a beer writer & audio maker & have my fingers in a number of pies (which, as everyone knows, go perfectly with beer). I post mainly about beer, pubs, books, mental health & equality. More at fermentationonline.com
Fashionably late as usual, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - October 2025
Only three this month, but each one represents a very different way of telling a true story.
#booksky
Only three this month, but each one represents a very different way of telling a true story.
#booksky
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Fashionably late as usual, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - October 2025
Only three this month, but each one represents a very different way of telling a true story.
#booksky
Only three this month, but each one represents a very different way of telling a true story.
#booksky
For the first - and possibly only - time this year, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - September 2025
On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons.
#booksky
On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons.
#booksky
October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
For the first - and possibly only - time this year, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - September 2025
On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons.
#booksky
On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons.
#booksky
With a Trump flag hanging just a few hundred yards from where I live, and now the shelves of my local Tesco Express completely devoid of houmous, it’s hard not to feel personally targeted as a lesbian at the moment…
September 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
With a Trump flag hanging just a few hundred yards from where I live, and now the shelves of my local Tesco Express completely devoid of houmous, it’s hard not to feel personally targeted as a lesbian at the moment…
Thank you to @willhawkes.bsky.social & his @londonbeercity.bsky.social newsletter for drawing this wonderful film to my attention. It’s a fantastic snapshot - featuring some very familiar faces - of the excitement of the London brewing scene back in 2010.
youtu.be/DggCEQoLnAs?...
youtu.be/DggCEQoLnAs?...
London Brewers Alliance 2010
YouTube video by LambicFilms
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Thank you to @willhawkes.bsky.social & his @londonbeercity.bsky.social newsletter for drawing this wonderful film to my attention. It’s a fantastic snapshot - featuring some very familiar faces - of the excitement of the London brewing scene back in 2010.
youtu.be/DggCEQoLnAs?...
youtu.be/DggCEQoLnAs?...
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Easington, 1984, photo by Izabela Jedrzejczyk. From her series Striking Women, about women there who were supporting miners during the strike.
September 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Easington, 1984, photo by Izabela Jedrzejczyk. From her series Striking Women, about women there who were supporting miners during the strike.
Reposted by Emma Inch
What we did in school today. Here’s an amazing graphic summary, drawn by Rebecca Osborne as we talked, of today’s Pubs in the Community meeting @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social organised by @culturalclare.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What we did in school today. Here’s an amazing graphic summary, drawn by Rebecca Osborne as we talked, of today’s Pubs in the Community meeting @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social organised by @culturalclare.bsky.social
Fashionably late, as always, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read in the past month - August 2025
One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company.
#booksky
One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company.
#booksky
September 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Fashionably late, as always, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read in the past month - August 2025
One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company.
#booksky
One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company.
#booksky
Reposted by Emma Inch
The man who started craft beer? My profile of David Bruce for @pelliclemag.com (photos by Sean McEmerson): www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...
What a Firkin' Life — David Bruce’s Life in Beer — Pellicle
In one corner of the 17th Century barn at Hawkridge Distillers, under a fairy-tale web of timber beams, a young man is making coffee from a bag of beans on a proper barista machine. Espressos. Cup aft...
www.pelliclemag.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The man who started craft beer? My profile of David Bruce for @pelliclemag.com (photos by Sean McEmerson): www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...
Reposted by Emma Inch
I am a trans woman in the UK. My most influential enemies are the guy who co-created a sitcom about Catholic priests back in the 90s, a woman who wrote some children’s books about wizards, and the prime minister.
Sometimes I feel a little crazy about this.
Sometimes I feel a little crazy about this.
September 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I am a trans woman in the UK. My most influential enemies are the guy who co-created a sitcom about Catholic priests back in the 90s, a woman who wrote some children’s books about wizards, and the prime minister.
Sometimes I feel a little crazy about this.
Sometimes I feel a little crazy about this.
Just so you know, I fixed my printer this morning so I’m gonna have a go at world peace later.
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
August 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Just so you know, I fixed my printer this morning so I’m gonna have a go at world peace later.
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
Many days late, here’s my regular round-up of the best books I’ve read in the past month (or 2!) - June / July 2025
I’ve read hundreds of thousands of words this summer but most were for a big project I’m working on. This has left little time for reading for pleasure but here are the best!
#booksky
I’ve read hundreds of thousands of words this summer but most were for a big project I’m working on. This has left little time for reading for pleasure but here are the best!
#booksky
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Many days late, here’s my regular round-up of the best books I’ve read in the past month (or 2!) - June / July 2025
I’ve read hundreds of thousands of words this summer but most were for a big project I’m working on. This has left little time for reading for pleasure but here are the best!
#booksky
I’ve read hundreds of thousands of words this summer but most were for a big project I’m working on. This has left little time for reading for pleasure but here are the best!
#booksky
Reposted by Emma Inch
Here’s a story for Bluesky and thanks to @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social please attend her pride in solidarity tonight! Or RT
![Pride still triggers homophobic pub goers
When Hazel Southwell took over the Royal Oak pub in Erith, south-east London, last December she feared the locals would shun a gay woman with Georgian heritage as she thought it was a Reform heartland.
The regulars surprised her, confrontations were rare and she secured a 400K in funds
for a renovation to change the decor and
60-year-old carpet. But when Hazel had to bar one drinker for posting online hate about a Pride party at the Oak, the bigot organised a boycott of the London pub.
Hazel then feared she would lose her job because of the drop in takings.
"It was difficult to secure the huge amount of funding to be spent on the pub," Hazel says. "It's a shame people have to spoil it by willing me to fail. Before this it was heartwarming that there was such good integration with LGTBQ+ [people], with everyone playing darts."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:grjd3hcat2bq3azu77jkfjw4/bafkreieyspguxtawxo6ul7u3mjkg5hx2q4ffdrs2gchdim2nvdr6gz5hzq@jpeg)
June 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Here’s a story for Bluesky and thanks to @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social please attend her pride in solidarity tonight! Or RT
Joining in the national #CheersToBeer for #BeerDayBritain with these specially brewed beers from Vocation!
[thanks to the brewery sending samples]
[thanks to the brewery sending samples]
June 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Joining in the national #CheersToBeer for #BeerDayBritain with these specially brewed beers from Vocation!
[thanks to the brewery sending samples]
[thanks to the brewery sending samples]
Happy Beer Day Britain everyone!
In the absence of a breakfast beer (an oversight on my part, obvs), I’m heading out to the pub in a bit to meet Beer Day Britain founder, @schoolofbooze.bsky.social herself, for a Sunday roast…& perhaps the odd beer or two.
#CheersToBeer
#BeerDayBritain
In the absence of a breakfast beer (an oversight on my part, obvs), I’m heading out to the pub in a bit to meet Beer Day Britain founder, @schoolofbooze.bsky.social herself, for a Sunday roast…& perhaps the odd beer or two.
#CheersToBeer
#BeerDayBritain
June 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Happy Beer Day Britain everyone!
In the absence of a breakfast beer (an oversight on my part, obvs), I’m heading out to the pub in a bit to meet Beer Day Britain founder, @schoolofbooze.bsky.social herself, for a Sunday roast…& perhaps the odd beer or two.
#CheersToBeer
#BeerDayBritain
In the absence of a breakfast beer (an oversight on my part, obvs), I’m heading out to the pub in a bit to meet Beer Day Britain founder, @schoolofbooze.bsky.social herself, for a Sunday roast…& perhaps the odd beer or two.
#CheersToBeer
#BeerDayBritain
Very shocked to hear this news earlier today. Martyn was a founder member of @britbeerwriters.bsky.social & his death will be a huge loss to beer writing.
Very sad and shocked to hear of the passing of Martyn Cornell today - only saw him last week, especially poignant with his Porter book due to be published
June 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Very shocked to hear this news earlier today. Martyn was a founder member of @britbeerwriters.bsky.social & his death will be a huge loss to beer writing.
Reposted by Emma Inch
Here comes our summer stout!
Launching at @tomstapandbrew.bsky.social on Saturday 31st May at 3pm
For trade sales please contact @seanayling.bsky.social, cask only available if you get in touch this week, otherwise it will all be going into keg.
Launching at @tomstapandbrew.bsky.social on Saturday 31st May at 3pm
For trade sales please contact @seanayling.bsky.social, cask only available if you get in touch this week, otherwise it will all be going into keg.
May 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Here comes our summer stout!
Launching at @tomstapandbrew.bsky.social on Saturday 31st May at 3pm
For trade sales please contact @seanayling.bsky.social, cask only available if you get in touch this week, otherwise it will all be going into keg.
Launching at @tomstapandbrew.bsky.social on Saturday 31st May at 3pm
For trade sales please contact @seanayling.bsky.social, cask only available if you get in touch this week, otherwise it will all be going into keg.
Reposted by Emma Inch
Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd
The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary
The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy
The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary
The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy
The #RainbowMap 2025 is live! Find out how 49 European countries rank on LGBTI human rights and see which ones are leading, or falling behind. Check it out now! rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org
May 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd
The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary
The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy
The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary
The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy
And now it’s a Pulitzer Prize winner!
Percival Everett - James (2024)
Two novels in one month? Unheard of for me! But this re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of Huckleberry's friend, Jim, the escaped slave, is a masterpiece.
If you read one book this year…
Two novels in one month? Unheard of for me! But this re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of Huckleberry's friend, Jim, the escaped slave, is a masterpiece.
If you read one book this year…
May 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
And now it’s a Pulitzer Prize winner!
May 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
May 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
Reposted by Emma Inch
Ruby and I wanted more culture, more chaos, more us — electric, unapologetic, and proudly Desi. That’s how Curry Smugglers Snacks was born
Tnx to all the tap rooms, bottle shops, and snack rebels who’ve stocked us so far. We’re just getting started
👉 currysmugglers.co
Tnx to all the tap rooms, bottle shops, and snack rebels who’ve stocked us so far. We’re just getting started
👉 currysmugglers.co
May 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Ruby and I wanted more culture, more chaos, more us — electric, unapologetic, and proudly Desi. That’s how Curry Smugglers Snacks was born
Tnx to all the tap rooms, bottle shops, and snack rebels who’ve stocked us so far. We’re just getting started
👉 currysmugglers.co
Tnx to all the tap rooms, bottle shops, and snack rebels who’ve stocked us so far. We’re just getting started
👉 currysmugglers.co
"When I go to a pub it's not about the beer. Of course I like the beer but I go to be with the people, to feel that I'm doing something to make them happy, to make them proud. Work, home, then we go to a pub just for a beer or two beers and finish. This is our life."
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Vitor Pereira: Wolves manager on why he goes to the pub after matches
Vitor Pereira has coined the phrase 'first the points, then the pints' - but there's more to him than just a catchphrase. BBC Sport meets the Wolves boss in the pub...
www.bbc.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"When I go to a pub it's not about the beer. Of course I like the beer but I go to be with the people, to feel that I'm doing something to make them happy, to make them proud. Work, home, then we go to a pub just for a beer or two beers and finish. This is our life."
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...