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Pete Brown

@petebrownbeer.bsky.social

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Writer, speaker, consultant, mainly on beer, pubs, food, drink, social history.
http://petebrown.net
http://patreon.com/petebrownbeer
Agent Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates.

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@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 2:23 PM

Wordpress: Update this plug-in. Me: Nah, I don't really get that stuff. WP: It's easy. Just press this button. Me: Nah, I'll just leave it. WP: It's important . Me: ... WP: PRESS THE BUTTON. ME: OK. WP: PERMANENT FATAL ERROR. Why did you press that button, you idiot? Now look what you've done!

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 12:15 PM

Over a thousand comments and reposts. Just 64 likes. Read the fucking room and reverse this betrayal of every single one of your members.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:35 AM

If you using generative AI in any way you clearly don’t give a shit your human members. Congratulations. You just lost a member of 20+ years. I’m sure you’ll be losing many more as a result of this disgusting, appalling decision. Fuck AI.

@andrewhickey.500songs.comSep 24, 2026, 5:32 PMReposted by @petebrownbeer.bsky.social

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:51 AM

Funnily enough we went To see the Sweet last year and the only surviving original member had broken his hip and wasn’t there and they played Sweet covers too and mostly sounded like an Iron Maiden tribute act.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:48 AM

This is why we use one-star Trip Advisor reviews to decide where to go go on holiday. “The food was all foreign. TV in the room was too small. Not enough for the kids to do.” We had a lovely time.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:25 PM

There’s more! But those are the best examples of their wilful neglect of a beer culture they don’t give a shit about.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:24 PM

No, not unique, but a great example of how if you give a fucking shit about cask ale, you can make money from brewing it. I have a lot of time for Carlsberg in Denmark. Carlsberg UK are incompetent, stupid morons who neither care about nor understand the beer culture they are murdering.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:21 PM

The key thing being, 80% of British brewing is now owned by multinational corporations that are not based in Britain. This is not a Brexity thing. The French, Germans, Spanish, Italians etc are invested enough in national traditions that they wouldn’t let this happen.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:06 PM

No worries. But they have put no advertising or promotional support behind any of their cask brands. They have joined none of the numerous initiatives to try to promote cask. PR queries on their cask brands go unanswered. They don’t even have a single image of a cask beer on their website.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:49 PM

No worries. But they have put no advertising or promotional support behind any of their cask brands. They have joined none of the numerous initiatives to try to promote cask. PR queries on their cask brands go unanswered. They don’t even have a single image of a cask beer on their website.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:32 AM

It's like Christmas come early.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:27 AM

The gall of these people. The biggest brewer of cask ale in the world have done absolutely NOTHING to support cask ale in recent years, and then they say they need to close the brewery because volumes are down so much. Vandalism, pure and simple. www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2026...

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:54 PM

“He basically said some things that he literally didn’t say.”

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:41 PM

"This establishment serves as a local watering hole, providing a typical pub atmosphere. Visitors can expect a range of beverages and a casual setting to unwind." Looks like human beer and pub writers are about to become obsolete.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:36 PM

Not the first weird thing she's said about Burnham. She obviously fancies him.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:33 PM

According to an AI tourism site I accidentally just stumbled across, Liverpool is in North Wales. The closest town to it is Liverpool. The pub I am researching is "either in or near Liverpool." All good to know, useful stuff.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 9:53 PM

“Transgender for everyone”. He keeps saying this as if it means something. Like a parrot that’s heard some noises it likes making.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 7:26 AM

Yeah right because it was just me who “misunderstood” her. It’s not like she’s angered thousands of people across the county or anything. I’m such a thick twat.

@petebrownbeer.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 3:57 PM

I’m afraid if she meant something different from what I took from the quote, she expressed herself pretty poorly. I’m an anti-racist socialist with no axe to grind.

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