News, nuggets and longreads 24 October 2026: Pen Mari

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got 80/-, simmer and sip and (the absence of) bog myrtle. First, some brewery ownership news: Rebellion Brewery in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, has become employee owned after its founders began the process of exiting the business. The BBC article we’ve linked, by Jamie Morris, considers the question of employee ownership more broadly, with evidence from Abbeydale in Sheffield suggesting it improves employee engagement and morale. It does seem like a neat solution to the succession problem, where there are no obvious heirs or proteges willing to take on the business. We particularly like this line in the story, quoting Rebellion co-founder Tim Coombes: Tim said they could have tried selling Rebellion to one of the bigger breweries… “You only need to look back at how that generally pans out for those breweries and it’s not very good unfortunately,” he added. For Pellicle Imran Rahman-Jones has…