Phill PE
phillwpe.bsky.social
Phill PE
@phillwpe.bsky.social
@capsandtaps.co.uk
Life & Death?
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I will always love breweries/tap rooms in old petrol stations/garages.
October 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Lime’s UK revenue from renting out e-bikes and scooters hit £111m last year. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-is-ea...
October 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I’m looking forward to Hawksmoor St Pancras. Reckon that will be a great location. Also excited for the chefs table and the martini bar. Just seems like lots of nice things for me.
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Newsletter is out! This time it's a recommendation for a game that nearly got me to enjoy watching sport. Nearly

open.substack.com/pub/gameroom...
Despelote: exploring hope and community through football
Despelote is an incredibly effective and authentic coming-of-age tale - centred entirely around football.
open.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Stupid sexy Flanders...
August 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Stressing listening to TMS and waiting to go in a tunnel under the channel. Need these runs done in the next 5 min.
August 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Look at this, we're launching a beer to celebrate 30 years of The Stand comedy club. It's called Wit, which is a very clever joke because that is both a kind of beer and a sort of humour or something. The name Ho-ho-gaarden was rejected on the grounds of copyright infringement.

pilotbeer.co.uk/wit
July 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Subsidising e-bikes instead of cars could really kick the electric vehicle transition into high gear
theconversation.com/subsidising-...
Subsidising e-bikes instead of cars could really kick the electric vehicle transition into high gear
Electric car discounts are too meagre to help the low-paid and car-dependent.
theconversation.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Exclusive: first journalist to visit the Lucky Saint brewery

#bavaria #lager #nolagers
July 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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With TRVE announcing the closure of its taprooms (and uncertain future of its brewery) it's highly worth revisiting this long read from @kastranec.bsky.social that evokes, fully, how fucking cool and immersive this taproom was. Copied often, never bettered.

www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2015/9/...
Not Grey, Light Black — Turning the Lights on at Denver's TRVE Brewing — Good Beer Hunting
Used to be, beer was this or that—one style or another. Anymore, though, the in-between is becoming the everyday. Belgian IPAs, India Pale Lagers, and Imperial Milds are less known as interesting...
www.goodbeerhunting.com
July 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Big thanks to @clairembullen.bsky.social for taking my favourite zine tour photographs SO FAR.

Come to my next and final event at Plug and Taps in Preston, Wednesday 23 April at 7pm xox
April 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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As part of our 10th birthday celebrations we are looking back to the London beers of 2015 and celebrating the ones that have lasted the course with us.
Friday marks exactly 10 years since we opened. From 6pm Steph and Phill are both behind the bar and pouring pints at 2015 prices. Yep - £4.80 pints!
April 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Allagash White pouring instore. Tasting great. Plus loads of fresh cans to sip in this sunshine.
March 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Started putting our 10th birthday events online.
More to come!

www.capsandtaps.co.uk/collections/...
10th Birthday
Come join us throughout April as we celebrate our 10th year in business with an array of events. We've got bottleshares, tap takeovers, beer releases, collabs and more.
www.capsandtaps.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I'm coming to London with my zine! See you at @capsandtaps.co.uk on Saturday 12 April at 4pm.
March 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
First/maybe only time I drank some Cambridge Beer Company was when my friend Cos brought back a growler for us in her luggage in 2012 because Steph and I had mentioned our love of craft beer. Think I got the Camden guys to refill that growler a few times as well.
February 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Our first piece of print from @pelliclemag.com is available to pre-order. A Place To Be is a collection of six short stories about drinking in liminal spaces by @katiematherkm.bsky.social and you can buy it here:

www.pelliclemag.com/shop/a-place...
A Place To Be — A Zine About Drinking In Liminal Spaces by Katie Mather — Pellicle
A Place To Be is a brand new zine and the first work published in print by Pellicle Magazine. Written and designed by Pellicle’s deputy editor Katie Mather, A Place To Be is a collection of found s...
www.pelliclemag.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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How private equity took over your kid's nursery.

For the @londonermag.bsky.social I looked into why half your salary is being paid to companies called Little Muffins, and whether City financiers are to blame.

www.the-londoner.co.uk/private-equi...
How private equity took over your kid's nursery
Are ruthless investors the reason you’re paying half your salary to Little Muffins Ltd?
www.the-londoner.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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What has 10 legs and is coming soon? Give up? It's the cast of Series 19!

#Taskmaster returns with Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin.
January 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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So lovely to see so many new faces here this morning. Welcome!

Today is publication Wednesday, and we have @rachelhendry.bsky.social casting a critical eye on celebrity wine, dissecting what trash really is, and Dolly Parton 💅🏻🍾

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/1/...
The Infinity of Desire — Dolly Parton's Wine, the Peak of the Trash Pile — Pellicle
For an exhibit on trash, what would I display? Would I collect all the items I dispose of throughout my week? Would I try to replicate the feelings of inferiority and stupidity I work through when a t...
www.pelliclemag.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
January 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Thinking a lot about how Steve Albini and David Lynch passed in the same year and they both grew up in Missoula, Montana. There was a 16 year difference between them, but given how much they both impacted me through their work and philosophies I’ve got to think Missoula is a fascinating place.
January 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Apple TV is free this weekend. I strongly recommend Shrinking and Bad Monkey if you’re looking for a binge. Oh also The Afterparty.
January 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Josh Bernstein on the US craft pullback in the NYT.

“The founder of TailGate Brewery in Nashville recently bought a grain silo for $500 — an identical model cost him $80,000 in 2016.”

He also got a $750,000 centrifuge for $50,000.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/d...
Has the Craft Beer Industry’s Keg Finally Kicked? (Gift Article)
After decades of meteoric success, this year marked the first time since 2005 that more breweries closed than opened.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:18 AM