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Earlier PINtPRESS work — essays, postcards, guides and notes from March and April 2026. Latest posts are on the main blog page.
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30 April 2026 · NoteAugustiner on Draft, Finally: Six Confirmed UK Pubs Pouring ItAugustiner Helles landed on UK draught in November 2025 via James Clay & Sons with no public venue list. PINtPOINT cross-references public Untappd data to confirm six — King's Arms in Bethnal Green, Café Beermoth and Society in Manchester, Bavaria Brauhaus in Glasgow and two more — with a seventh, the Whippet, opening 14 May outside Liverpool Street.Read the note →
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29 April 2026 · Note12 Years of Bosko: All 12 UK Venues Pouring Pressure Drop's West Coast IPA on 1 MayTwelve years ago Pressure Drop released their first batch of Bosko — a 6.5% West Coast IPA brewed in a Hackney railway arch. Friday 1 May 2026, twelve UK venues are simultaneously putting it on the lines. Every launch venue with PINtPOINT links, plus the back-story on the beer.Read the note →
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27 April 2026 · EssayLeft Field Beer: One of Britain's Best Independent Beer ShopsFresh American imports — Trillium, Hop Butcher — alongside European specialists like Arpus and CoolHead and championed UK indies including DEYA and Buxton, all curated from a single Solihull shop. With the deep-dive on why drinking American craft properly is so expensive over here.Read the essay →
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20 April 2026 · PostcardA Postcard from London: The City That Taught the World to Brew, Then Started AgainThe third in the trilogy. London is one of the oldest beer cities in the world, but the version you can drink now is barely fifteen years old — a comeback layered over an inheritance. Porter, IPA, Ind Coope and Charrington, then the long gap, then The Kernel in a Bermondsey arch and a new scene built on top of the ruins.Read the postcard →
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19 April 2026 · GuideWalking the Ted Lasso Pub Trail in Richmond — From Crown & Anchor to Richmond HillThe Crown & Anchor exterior is The Prince's Head on Richmond Green. The view above the Thames bend is the one Ted reflects from. A four-stop walking pub trail for fans of the show — and a shortlist of the wider Richmond craft-beer scene worth a pint while you're there.Read the guide →
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16 April 2026 · PostcardA Postcard from Melbourne: The City That Built a Craft-Beer Scene on Bars, Not BreweriesCompanion to the San Diego piece — the structural opposite. San Diego built a craft-beer capital brewery-first; Melbourne did it bar-first. Catfish, Local Taphouse, Cookie, Hippo, Boilermaker — a scene that turned curation into a category of its own.Read the postcard →
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12 April 2026 · Essay · ReferenceThe Drinker's Guide to Hops: What Each Variety Actually Tastes LikeA 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 that collapses Drexler's unwieldy 107 descriptors into something you can actually hold in your head.Read the reference →
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9 April 2026 · PostcardA Postcard from San Diego: How a Navy Town Became the IPA Capital of the WorldKarl 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 most important craft-beer city in the world — and where in North Park, Miramar, and La Jolla to drink its legacy today.Read the postcard →
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5 April 2026 · GuideThe Chelmsford Beer Mile: A Live Guide to Essex's Best Craft-Beer CrawlEight 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 local-brewing quiet.Read the guide →
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29 March 2026 · EssayWhat's Wrong With Beer Recommendation Systems (And What PINtPOINT Does Differently)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 Sip-or-Skip, Head-to-Head and venue-aware scoring to answer the different question a drinker is actually asking.Read the essay →