A Pub For All Seasons

A celebration of the beauty and mysteries of the British pub, and how it changes through seasons, by award-winning beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones.There is that sun-stroked moment in late May when a glass of golden beer on a newly shorn lawn at the back of a corner pub, its tunefully tropical fruit aromatics racing out of the glass like greyhounds from the traps, can soften the memory of a hard day at work or issue a free pass for the weekend's reward. Later in the year, autumn reaches out to us as shadows lengthen and fires are lit and the dance of time continues unabated as we move indoors, our hands clasping glasses of amber-hued ale