#98 Jonny Garrett - Pub Myths, Cask's Comeback, British Hops & 13,000 Years of Beer

<p>Award-winning beer writer Jonny Garrett, co-founder of YouTube&#39;s Craft Beer Channel and the only writer to win Fortnum &amp; Mason Drinks Book of the Year twice, joins us in the week his new book One More Round hits the shelves. We follow his 4,000-mile road trip in a borrowed red Mini called Allan, through 150 pubs and the 58 that made the cut, and pull apart some cherished pub myths along the way: why the bar you order at is a Victorian idea borrowed from the gin palaces, why queuing at the bar was once completely normal, and why almost every claim to be Britain&#39;s oldest pub falls apart under scrutiny. We get into the beer tie and why, by Jonny&#39;s estimate, only around 10,000 UK pubs can truly choose what they pour, his campaign for UNESCO recognition of cask ale, what cask could learn from Guinness and the Bass revival, the closure of Sharp&#39;s in Cornwall and the quiet collapse of British hop growing. Then we go back 13,000 years with The Meaning of Beer: a Natufian brewery beside a burial site, a pre-pyramid mega-brewery at Abydos, Gilgamesh, the refrigerator built for a Munich brewery, how sour beer led Joseph Lister to antiseptic surgery, the Carlsberg Laboratory and Hitler&#39;s beer halls. We finish on craft beer&#39;s identity crisis, why drinking together still matters, and the breweries Jonny is most excited about right now.</p><p><strong>Jonny&#39;s books</strong></p><ul><li>One More Round: Exploring the Best of British Pubs (2026): <a href="https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/one-more-round/">https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/one-more-round/</a></li><li>The Meaning of Beer: An Alternative History of the World (2024): <a href="https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-meaning-of-beer/">https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-meaning-of-beer/</a></li><li>A Year in Beer (CAMRA Books, 2021): <a href="https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product/a-year-in-beer-a-beer-lovers-guide-to-the-seasons/">https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product/a-year-in-beer-a-beer-lovers-guide-to-the-seasons/</a></li><li>Beer School: A Crash Course in Craft Beer (2016, with Brad Evans): <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beer-School-Crash-Course-Craft/dp/1633533689">https://www.amazon.com/Beer-School-Crash-Course-Craft/dp/1633533689</a></li></ul><p><strong>Find Jonny</strong></p><ul><li>Website: <a href="https://jonnygarrett.co.uk">https://jonnygarrett.co.uk</a></li><li>The Craft Beer Channel: <a href="https://www.thecraftbeerchannel.com">https://www.thecraftbeerchannel.com</a></l