Scotland – natural home of tasty lager?
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007We picked up three great Scottish lagers last week from Utobeer. We were with friends, so we were pretending not to be sad and...
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Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007Both Martyn ‘Zythophile’ Cornell and Ron ‘No Internet Pseudonym’ Pattinson are enthusiastic drinkers and historians of Burton, a...
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Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007We’ve developed the bad habit of annotating films as we watch them, both of us with mobile devices in front of the TV reading...
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Williams Bros: Craft Before It Was A Thing
The quintessentially Scottish brewery Williams Bros began its life in 1988 when an elderly woman walked into a home-brewing supply shop in Glasgow and approached the young man behind the counter with...
View ArticleHeather Ale, 1900: ‘…the brewery caught fire…’
Digging through copies of Brewing Trade Review looking for information on pubs last week we couldn’t help but get distracted by, for example, a 1900 article that offers an intriguing footnote to our...
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News, Nuggets & Longreads 09 April 2016: Sheep Dung, Italy, Scotland
Here’s all the reading about beer and pubs that’s made us sit up and take notice in the last week, from sheep dung beer to brewery takeovers. → It’s easy to scoff at the silly things silly craft beer...
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A Vicious Circle for Keg Bitter in the 1970s
In the early 1970s no-one was buying Younger’s Tartan keg bitter which meant it kept sitting around in pubs until it went bad. The brewery’s response? Mix it it back in and send it out again. This...
View ArticleScotland – natural home of tasty lager?
We picked up three great Scottish lagers last week from Utobeer. We were with friends, so we were pretending not to be sad and didn’t take any notes, which means we can’t give you much in the way of...
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The Pub at the Edge of the World
We’ve developed the bad habit of annotating films as we watch them, both of us with mobile devices in front of the TV reading different bits of Wikipedia. (“Huh, fancy that — Basil Rathbone was an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Williams Bros: Craft Before It Was A Thing
The quintessentially Scottish brewery Williams Bros began its life in 1988 when an elderly woman walked into a home-brewing supply shop in Glasgow and approached the young man behind the counter with...
View ArticleHeather Ale, 1900: ‘…the brewery caught fire…’
Digging through copies of Brewing Trade Review looking for information on pubs last week we couldn’t help but get distracted by, for example, a 1900 article that offers an intriguing footnote to our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
News, Nuggets & Longreads 09 April 2016: Sheep Dung, Italy, Scotland
Here’s all the reading about beer and pubs that’s made us sit up and take notice in the last week, from sheep dung beer to brewery takeovers. → It’s easy to scoff at the silly things silly craft beer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Vicious Circle for Keg Bitter in the 1970s
In the early 1970s no-one was buying Younger’s Tartan keg bitter which meant it kept sitting around in pubs until it went bad. The brewery’s response? Mix it it back in and send it out again. This...
View ArticleScotland – natural home of tasty lager?
We picked up three great Scottish lagers last week from Utobeer. We were with friends, so we were pretending not to be sad and didn’t take any notes, which means we can’t give you much in the way of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Pub at the Edge of the World
We’ve developed the bad habit of annotating films as we watch them, both of us with mobile devices in front of the TV reading different bits of Wikipedia. (“Huh, fancy that — Basil Rathbone was an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Williams Bros: Craft Before It Was A Thing
The quintessentially Scottish brewery Williams Bros began its life in 1988 when an elderly woman walked into a home-brewing supply shop in Glasgow and approached the young man behind the counter with...
View ArticleHeather Ale, 1900: ‘…the brewery caught fire…’
Digging through copies of Brewing Trade Review looking for information on pubs last week we couldn’t help but get distracted by, for example, a 1900 article that offers an intriguing footnote to our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
News, Nuggets & Longreads 09 April 2016: Sheep Dung, Italy, Scotland
Here’s all the reading about beer and pubs that’s made us sit up and take notice in the last week, from sheep dung beer to brewery takeovers. → It’s easy to scoff at the silly things silly craft beer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Vicious Circle for Keg Bitter in the 1970s
In the early 1970s no-one was buying Younger’s Tartan keg bitter which meant it kept sitting around in pubs until it went bad. The brewery’s response? Mix it it back in and send it out again. This...
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Scotland #2: A tiny taster of Edinburgh
We spent a day in Edinburgh – just enough time to be intrigued but not enough to claim that we’ve even begun to understand it. But, anyway, here a few impressions. First, Edinburgh’s pubs, based on the...
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