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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 21h

What's next lads? A hard hitting expose on how you don't see white dog poo anymore? A searing jab at Alanis Morissette's misuse of the word ironic?

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 21h

Look, we hate craft beer as much as the next person but it's rapidly approaching the end of 2025 and we've just seen a fairly well known satirical spoof news site doing a story about how there's lots of IPAs with stupid names and hipsters like them. Mind boggling.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 4d

It’s a actually number 7373. It’s a very long road. This isn’t true.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 4d

Decided it would be a good idea if we added something to the frontage that told people what Vessel actually is. Please send us the business and marketing awards now.

vesselbars.co.uk

The frontage of Vessel, now saying Bar & Kitchen

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 7d

A hilarious riff on the Alan Partridge "can I just shock you" meme, implying that the Pilot brewery actually *like* rating sites despite years of vocally disparaging the Untappd beer rating website and app.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 7d

*keeps eyes peeled*

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 7d

That's 99 Google reviews for Vessel, averaging 4.9. Want to be the 100th? Book now and IT COULD BE YOU!

vesselbars.co.uk

You could also be the 26th Tripadvisor review (the eagle-eyed amongst you will note that's also at 4.9) but that does seem slightly less of a milestone tbf.

A screenshot from Google showing 99 reviews at a score of 4.9 for Vessel

A screenshot from Tripadvisor showing 25 reviews at 4.9 for Vessel

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Cornelius Beer & Wine @corneliusbeers.bsky.social · 14d

BACK @pilotbeer.co.uk Lupe Pintos Helzapoppin! corn lager.

4% abv. £2.80/33cl

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 14d

A moody shot of a misty Dublin dock in the early morning. As the camera pans across something is burning in the background for some reason. Arthur Guinness looks at the various stickers on the lid of his 2019 Macbook Air, flips it open and logs on to the Bunzl website to order a new squeegee handle.

Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 14d

Some people saying House Of Guinness isn't a realistic portrayal of brewery life while other people are saying it's really boring and nothing happens, lads you can't have it both ways.

Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 16d

Bold of the guy who made Peaky Blinders and A Thousand Blows to try the same trick again with House Of Guinness. Sorry pal, but not sure the beer community will be receptive to endless repetitions of basically exactly the same thing!

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 14d

Some people saying House Of Guinness isn't a realistic portrayal of brewery life while other people are saying it's really boring and nothing happens, lads you can't have it both ways.

Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 16d

Bold of the guy who made Peaky Blinders and A Thousand Blows to try the same trick again with House Of Guinness. Sorry pal, but not sure the beer community will be receptive to endless repetitions of basically exactly the same thing!

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 16d

Is this not just a rehash of the old tweet we did about NFTs? Who can say, who can say.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 16d

Bold of the guy who made Peaky Blinders and A Thousand Blows to try the same trick again with House Of Guinness. Sorry pal, but not sure the beer community will be receptive to endless repetitions of basically exactly the same thing!

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 18d

Side note: we were drinking Dark Mild in Manchester on the night of Theresa May’s snap election and a big cheer went up when the exit polls announced a hung parliament. Since then we’ve had over 40 prime ministers and everything has got worse. Not sure what the moral of this story is.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 18d

Back in 2017 we brewed a Dark Mild with our (genuine, not made up for social media) friend Tim at Fell. Now he’s up here and we’re brewing exactly the same beer again, just because we fancy it. So that’s nice.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 21d

Very much so

Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 21d

If you sell enough of it we will…

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 24d

a man in a suit and tie singing into a microphone with the words " bit of politics " above him

Alt: Ben Elton saying Bit of Politics

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 24d

Please note that while the shop at the brewery will be open as usual today there may be some disturbance caused as we’ll also have a collection of former Labour MPs in there attempting to organise a piss-up.

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Cornelius Beer & Wine @corneliusbeers.bsky.social · 24d

NEW - @pilotbeer.co.uk Big Westie WCIPA.

6.2% abv. £3.20/33cl

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 25d

When we did our Brewing & Distilling MScs one of us genuinely did a literature review on the science of hangovers and the major takeaway was do not ever - DO NOT EVER - watch the first ten minutes of Up with a hangover.

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Adrian Tierney-Jones @atjbeer.bsky.social · 28d

Oktoberfest is nearly upon us and in today’s @dailystar.co.uk I’ve brought together a First XI of Brit breweries making superb Festbiers including @lostandgrounded.bsky.social @teamutopian.bsky.social @durationbeer.bsky.social @pilotbeer.co.uk @pillarsbrewery.bsky.social & @verdantbrew.bsky.social

Double page spread featuring an Oktoberfest crowd in the background with 12 boxes of text featuring Festbiers

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · Sep 8

It's absolutely insane to us that anyone still uses Twitter. You don't have to. You can just stop. It was a *massive* part of our growth but you can just let it go. However important your business is to you, it's less important than this:

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 7

Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X

This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · Sep 13

Firing all our employees who haven’t badmouthed Charlie Kirk.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · Sep 12

We’ll do the good news first. We’ve made a big west coast IPA and it’s a proper westie. Bitter, sweet, piney.

The bad news? Look we’re not saying we’re phoning it in but we’ve called it Big Westie and this is the can.

Buy it here if you must: pilotbeer.co.uk/collections/...

A can of Pilot Big Westie, featuring a big Westie terrier.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · Sep 12

Man, these ruddy mosquito bites don’t half itch, right lads? Right? The mosquito bites we’ve totally got loads of. Right?

Jessica Mason @drinksmaven.bsky.social · Sep 12

Mosquitos like to bite beer drinkers who recently had sex www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/09/mosq... @teamdb.bsky.social

Mosquitos like to bite beer drinkers who recently had sex

Drinking beer and having sex may increase your chances of getting bitten by mosquitos, according to a new study.

www.thedrinksbusiness.com

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