PINtPRESS https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/ Long-form writing from the PINtPOINT team on beer, pubs, and the tools we build. Postcards from 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) Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 PINtPOINT hand-maintained RSS 1440 https://pintpoint.co.uk/icon.png PINtPRESS https://pintpoint.co.uk/blog/ 12 Years of Bosko: All 12 UK Venues Pouring Pressure Drop's West Coast IPA on 1 May 2026 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. Left Field Beer: One of Britain's Best Independent Beer Shops 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. A Postcard from London: The City That Taught the World to Brew, Then Started Again 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 Postcard 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 postcard trilogy — a comeback layered over an inheritance. A Postcard from Melbourne: The City That Built a Craft-Beer Scene on Bars, Not Breweries 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 Postcard 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. The Drinker's Guide to Hops: What Each Variety Actually Tastes Like 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. A Postcard from San Diego: How a Navy Town Became the IPA Capital of the World 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 Postcard 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. The Chelmsford Beer Mile: A Live Guide to Essex's Best Craft-Beer Crawl 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. What's Wrong With Beer Recommendation Systems (And What PINtPOINT Does Differently) 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.