https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/ Long-form writing from the PINtPOINT team on beer, pubs, and the tools we build. Love letters to beer cities, guides to crawls and styles, and notes on what's new in the app. en-GB © 2026 PINtPOINT hello@pintpoint.co.uk (Sophie Ro) hello@pintpoint.co.uk (Sophie Ro) Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 PINtPOINT hand-maintained RSS 1440 https://pintpoint.co.uk/icon.png https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/ https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/augustiner-on-draft-uk-six-pubs.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/augustiner-on-draft-uk-six-pubs.html Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Note Augustiner Helles launched on UK draught in November 2025 via James Clay & Sons with no public venue list. PINtPOINT names all seven pubs currently pouring it — across London, Manchester, Newcastle, Luton and Glasgow — with an eighth, the Whippet EC2, opening 12 May. https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/12-years-of-bosko.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/12-years-of-bosko.html Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Note Twelve years of Pressure Drop's iconic West Coast IPA, celebrated 1 May 2026 with simultaneous pours at 12 UK venues. Full launch-venue list with PINtPOINT links and back-story on Bosko. https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/left-field-beer-britain-american-craft.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/left-field-beer-britain-american-craft.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Essay Fresh American imports (Trillium, Hop Butcher), European specialists (Arpus, CoolHead, Factory) and championed UK indies (DEYA, Buxton), curated from a single Solihull shop — with the deep-dive on why drinking American craft properly is so expensive over here. https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/london-craft-beer-love-letter.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/london-craft-beer-love-letter.html Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Love letter London is one of the oldest beer cities in the world, but the version you can drink now is barely fifteen years old. The third in the love-letter trilogy — a comeback layered over an inheritance. https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/richmond-london-goes-live.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/richmond-london-goes-live.html Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Note From zero to fifteen in one batch. A short coverage note on Richmond-upon-Thames going live — Tap Tavern, Richmond Vault, Brewstation, The Roebuck, and eleven more now tracked with tap lists where available. https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/melbourne-bar-culture-love-letter.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/melbourne-bar-culture-love-letter.html Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Love letter Companion to the San Diego piece — the structural opposite. Catfish, Local Taphouse, Cookie, Hippo, Boilermaker — a scene that turned curation into a category of its own. https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/hops-what-each-one-tastes-like.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/hops-what-each-one-tastes-like.html Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Essay Reference A drinker-first reference to the 30-odd hops you're most likely to meet on a UK or European bar — Cascade, Citra, Mosaic, EKG, Saaz and the rest, organised by a six-category flavour framework. https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/san-diego-ipa-capital-love-letter.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/san-diego-ipa-capital-love-letter.html Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Love letter Karl Strauss in 1989. Stone and Ballast Point in 1996. A hop arms race through the 2000s that perfected the West Coast IPA. A tour of how San Diego quietly became the IPA capital and where to drink its legacy today. https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/chelmsford-beer-mile-guide.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/chelmsford-beer-mile-guide.html Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Guide Eight specialist venues in a mile — bottle shops, a brewpub, railway arch taprooms — walked in the right order. With live tap lists for every stop, plus a footnote on Baddow Brewery (1798–1927) and how Chelmsford Brew Co broke the century-long quiet. https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/beer-recommendation-systems-what-most-get-wrong.html https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/beer-recommendation-systems-what-most-get-wrong.html Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sophie Ro Essay A response to Ethan Haley's Untappd-as-a-recommender analysis and NYC Data Science's Ninkasi project. Three walls rating-based recommenders hit — cold start, popularity bias, geography-blindness — and how PINtDEXTER layers around them.