boakandbailey

boakandbailey, 5 days ago to beer

GOOD MORNING! News, nuggets and longreads is up, with some great balanced, nosy, inquisitive writing from @Laura and @willhawkes among others. 🍺🍻

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/05/news-nuggets-and-longreads-18-may-2024-children-of-the-stones/

#beer #pubs

boakandbailey, 11 days ago to beer

BLOG POST: "On a recent trip to Manchester we didn’t plan our drinking beforehand and encountered two contrasting Alberts." 🍺🍻

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/05/a-tale-of-two-alberts-in-manchester/

#beer #pubs #Manchester

boakandbailey, 23 days ago to beer

What we didn't discuss in our blog post about video games in pubs was how bars with arcade machines seem now to occupy a viable niche. Bristol has several. Discussing this evening, we wondered if the appeal is that they aren't just about booze, so more inclusive for after work hangouts.

#beer #pubs

boakandbailey, 1 month ago to beer

BLOG POST: Jess writes about a pub she's known her entire life and which somehow changes while staying the same. 🍺🍻

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/04/st-davids-in-2024-the-farmers-is-still-the-farmers/

#beer #pubs

boakandbailey, 1 month ago to beer

Very much enjoying the interior of the Black Lion on Kilburn High Street. Is it tail end of the gin palace era or an early precursor to Arts and Crafts?

Excellent beer range too, including super fresh Rothaus Pils.

#beer #pubs #London #Kilburn

boakandbailey, 1 month ago to beer

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round-up of good writing about #beer and #pubs with notes on noble hops, alcohol-free Augustiner, and beer festivals. 🍺

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/03/news-nuggets-and-longreads-30-march-2024-berserk/

boakandbailey, 2 months ago to beer

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round-up of writing about beer and pubs, with an emphasis on business struggles, yeast, and Brussels. 🍺🍻

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/03/news-nuggets-and-longreads-23-march-2024-riding-high/

#beer #pubs #BeerWriting

boakandbailey, 2 months ago to beer

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round-up of good writing about beer and pubs. We've done this just about every Saturday morning for over a decade now. This week, we've got some great brewery profiles, a bit of dirt-digging on BrewDog, and beer history from German sources, among other things.

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/03/news-nuggets-and-longreads-9-march-2024-heroes-villains/

#beer #pubs

boakandbailey, 2 months ago to beer

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round-up of good reading, with slightly more links than usual.

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/03/news-nuggets-and-longreads-2-march-2024-because-of-the-cats/

#beer #pubs

boakandbailey, 3 months ago to beer

GOOD MORNING! This week's beer writing round-up has bad news about some big UK breweries, optimism about pubs from @willhawkes, hop history from @akrennmair, observations on glassware from Liam K, and a flipping massive rabbit, among other things.

#beer #pubs

boakandbailey, 3 months ago to beer

It's a sunny Sunday afternoon, so time for our first visit to the Grain Barge in 2024.
#Beer
#Bristol
#Pubs
#Boats

boakandbailey, 3 months ago to beer

BLOG POST: “Sergeant Edward Midwinter… reports that at 11:10 am 22nd December 1913, he observed that the Pilgrim [public house] New Thomas Street, Saint Philips, was closed for the sale of intoxicating liquor.”

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/02/pubs-and-breweries-in-bristol-archives/

#beer #pubs #bristol

boakandbailey, 3 months ago to beer

MORNING! Here's our regular round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, including an 11,000 word academic essay, a 150-word beer review, and various things somewhere in between.

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/02/news-nuggets-and-longreads-3-february-2024-poker-face/

#beer #pubs #BeerWriting #CraftBeer

boakandbailey, 3 months ago to beer

BLOG POST: "What is it about pubs that makes them particularly suitable for socialising and ‘hanging out’, compared to cafes and restaurants?"

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/02/pubs-versus-cafes-in-1927-and-2024/

#beer #pubs

boakandbailey, 4 months ago to beer

BLOG POST: “The Somerville Club is almost invisible from the street, and like the TARDIS, seems magically bigger on the inside...”

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/01/new-to-us-the-somerville-club-st-andrews-bristol/

#beer #pubs #Bristol

boakandbailey, 4 months ago to beer

MORNING! Our regular round-up of news and links is up on the blog, with notes on North Brewing, cosy pubs, cold pubs, lagering times, bootleg Corona and UK brewery taker-overs Breal Capital.

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/01/news-nuggets-and-longreads-20-january-2024-wintermute/

#beer #pubs #beerstodon

boakandbailey, 4 months ago to beer

MORNING! January’s a great time for writing about beer and pubs as dormant blogs spring back to life and New Year’s resolutions kick in. Here’s our pick of the week.

#beer #pubs

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/01/news-nuggets-and-longreads-13-january-2024-light-cycles/

boakandbailey, 4 months ago to beer

Also, for our Patreon Pals, notes on the beers we drank during the Merrineum, between Christmas and New Year, including on the Blackhorse Beer Mile in Walthamstow.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/beers-of-2023-96030314

#beer #pubs #taprooms

boakandbailey, 4 months ago to beer

BLOG POST: Life in numbers – our 2023 Bristol pub visits

“At the start of 2023 we added a new column to our pub visits spreadsheet having reflected on changes in our pub going habits...”

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/01/our-2023-bristol-pub-visits/

#beer #pubs #Bristol

boakandbailey, 4 months ago to beer

Here’s all the writing about beer that grabbed our attention in this wet, gloomy first week of January 2024, from stats to smoked beer.

#beer #pubs

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/01/news-nuggets-and-longreads-6-january-2024-innsmouth-look/

boakandbailey, 4 months ago to bristol

We attempted to wassail our favourite apple tree today but the swollen River Avon got in the way. Waved a cider bottle at an alternative tree in the park and then went to the pub. Happy #TwelfthNight #Bristol

boakandbailey, 4 months ago to beer

GOLDEN PINTS: Our favourite pubs, beers, breweries, books and blogs of 2023.

https://boakandbailey.com/2023/12/golden-pints-2023-the-best-pubs-and-beers-of-2023/

#beer #GoldenPints2023

boakandbailey, 5 months ago to beer

BLOG POST: We’ve been to 300 Bristol Pubs (at last)

“From a quick skim through the spreadsheet we would say that in Bristol there are more openings than (permanent) closings, and the vast majority of pubs still have at least one cask ale on...”

https://boakandbailey.com/2023/12/weve-been-to-300-bristol-pubs-at-last/

#beer #pubs

boakandbailey, 5 months ago to beer

Mission achieved: Fuller's London Porter on cask. Seems to be everywhere. Delicious – but maybe Five Points Railway Porter has the edge these days?

#beer