multi award-winning writer | academic | UK Beer Writer of the Year 2018 | co-author: World’s Greatest Beers | producer: Same Again? mental health podcast | erstwhile rockabilly DJ | she/her | 🏳️‍🌈 | trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ www.fermentationonline.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3m57ttio2gs2kFashionably late as usual, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - October 2025 Only three this month, but each one represents a very different way of telling a true story. #booksky09 Nov 2025 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m57ttio2gs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3m25ivt7kis2pFor the first - and possibly only - time this year, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - September 2025 On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons. #booksky01 Oct 2025 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m25ivt7kis2phttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lze7t3wxt22lWith a Trump flag hanging just a few hundred yards from where I live, and now the shelves of my local Tesco Express completely devoid of houmous, it’s hard not to feel personally targeted as a lesbian at the moment…21 Sep 2025 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lze7t3wxt22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lz6mlpyxps2kThank you to @willhawkes.bsky.social & his @londonbeercity.bsky.social newsletter for drawing this wonderful film to my attention. It’s a fantastic snapshot - featuring some very familiar faces - of the excitement of the London brewing scene back in 2010. https://youtu.be/DggCEQoLnAs?si=KNAiCZ2v3trJPvCR19 Sep 2025 10:07 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz6mlpyxps2khttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lydrn4aobk2iFashionably late, as always, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read in the past month - August 2025 One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company. #booksky08 Sep 2025 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lydrn4aobk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lxmm53uutc2kJust so you know, I fixed my printer this morning so I’m gonna have a go at world peace later. #NotAllHeroesWearCapes30 Aug 2025 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxmm53uutc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lvpugkymc22gMany days late, here’s my regular round-up of the best books I’ve read in the past month (or 2!) - June / July 2025 I’ve read hundreds of thousands of words this summer but most were for a big project I’m working on. This has left little time for reading for pleasure but here are the best! #booksky06 Aug 2025 09:02 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvpugkymc22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lro2gilej22qJoining in the national #CheersToBeer for #BeerDayBritain with these specially brewed beers from Vocation! [thanks to the brewery sending samples]15 Jun 2025 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lro2gilej22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lrn2mv4l5s2tHappy Beer Day Britain everyone! In the absence of a breakfast beer (an oversight on my part, obvs), I’m heading out to the pub in a bit to meet Beer Day Britain founder, @schoolofbooze.bsky.social herself, for a Sunday roast…& perhaps the odd beer or two. #CheersToBeer #BeerDayBritain15 Jun 2025 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrn2mv4l5s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lqktgl6uzc2iVery shocked to hear this news earlier today. Martyn was a founder member of @britbeerwriters.bsky.social & his death will be a huge loss to beer writing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jun 2025 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqktgl6uzc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lqka3zsick2fPinch punch & all that. Here’s my regular round-up of all the books I’ve read this month - May 2025 #booksky01 Jun 2025 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqka3zsick2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3loiko46ry22zAnd now it’s a Pulitzer Prize winner! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2025 09:22 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3loiko46ry22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3loh2c6twdc2pYes please. Thank you very much. @burningskybeer.bsky.social05 May 2025 18:56 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3loh2c6twdc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lobd3dgarc2gYep. That's what I needed. https://youtu.be/s_21p14TAXM?si=ii17qG4QNXylusbT03 May 2025 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lobd3dgarc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lo6qo2qxvk2t"When I go to a pub it's not about the beer. Of course I like the beer but I go to be with the people, to feel that I'm doing something to make them happy, to make them proud. Work, home, then we go to a pub just for a beer or two beers and finish. This is our life." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c62geqjmvn6o02 May 2025 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo6qo2qxvk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lo6nqiuhr22zMassively pleased to open up my monthly email from @kemptownbookshop.bsky.social this morning & find this message at the top of it. Support your trans friends. And support your local bookshop.02 May 2025 10:50 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo6nqiuhr22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmainch.bsky.social/post/3lo6italqv22hhttps://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25132553.jk-rowling-trans-row-sees-tattooists-offer-free-harry-potter-cover-ups/02 May 2025 09:23 +0000at://did:plc:eibdldtfqacssrlevpeplepn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo6italqv22h