License Brewed to Kill
Olga Kurylenko in a Bond tie-in Heineken ad Most critics have picked up on one major irritation in the latest films in the resurgent James Bond franchise: product placement. This time round, with...
View ArticleNo Nonsense is Nonsense
John Smith’s have a carefully worked out ‘brand identity': everything is written in the voice of a “no nonsense” Yorkshireman. But the funny thing is this: the idea that they can’t be doing with all...
View ArticleSponsored by One Green Lager or the Other
When someone asked us this week to remind them of the official beer of the London Olympics, we couldn’t remember. “One of the lagers that comes in green tins,” we said. “Carslberg, we think. Yeah,...
View ArticleCrossover Event: Beavertown & Heineken
Beavertown has sold a substantial stake to Heineken — they’re not specifying how much but 49 per cent seems a reasonable assumption — and our Twitter mentions have gone a bit mad. That’s because a...
View ArticleNews, Nuggets and Longreads 16 February 2019: Beer Duty, BridgePort, Brussels
Here’s everything in writing about beer and pubs from the past week that struck as especially noteworthy, from colonialism to brewery closures. For the Guardian Dutch journalist Olivier van Beemen...
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