Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got pork, Stockport and the Reinheitsgebot. First, a pleasingly minor bit of news: a pub in Lincolnshire has acquired an electronic train departure board thanks to the efforts of volunteers. Now, we say minor, but the ready availability of boards like this is a wonder of our age. Thanks to open data projects and APIs anyone can tap into live feeds and display departure information for any station in the country. For pubs which have symbiotic relationships with railway stations, as this one does, a live departure board meets a customer need: to know how long they’ve got to finish their pint; to know whether they’ve got time for another pint; to know that it’s time to settle in because every bloody train has been cancelled… For Pellicle Adam Steiner has turned his attention to something essential to English pub culture but which, being humble and arguably disgusting, is rather taken for granted:…
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