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WEBRead about the revival of The Crown Tavern, a Bristol landmark with Bass on cask, and other news, nuggets and longreads about beer. Boak & Bailey are beer writers and bloggers based in Bristol.
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WEBOur latest book is Balmy Nectar, a collection of the best of our writing from here on the blog and across various magazines since 2012.It's available via Amazon worldwide. Our book 20th Century Pub was released in 2017 and is an award-winning rattle through the development of the English pub from beerhouses to micropubs. A new edition of Brew Britannia: the strange rebirth of British beer came ...
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WEBApr 11, 2023 · Our latest book is Balmy Nectar, a collection of the best of our writing from here on the blog and across various magazines since 2012.It's available via Amazon worldwide. Our book 20th Century Pub was released in 2017 and is an award-winning rattle through the development of the English pub from beerhouses to micropubs. A new edition of Brew Britannia: the strange rebirth of British beer came ...
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WEBAug 25, 2024 · It’s Saturday morning and time for us to round-up the best writing about beer from the past week, including pints, Pilsner and pubs. The Irish journalist Nell McCafferty has died at the age of 80 resurfacing the story of a protest she led in the 1970s, as described by Dr Christina Wade in this 2018 blog post:. McCafferty led a …
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WEBJul 27, 2024 · Here’s our regular round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, with notes on Guinness, beer ticking, and the word ‘floral’. First, a general observation on trade news: the individual stories don’t often grab our attention, but it is interesting to look at the front pages as a whole and see who is doing well, and where the problems are.
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WEBJun 30, 2024 · SOURCE: Tamas Pap at Unsplash. At Craft Beer & Brewing Joe Stange has written an article that might almost have been designed to make people mad: how do you brew beer with tortilla chips?As you might expect if you know his work, however, it’s actually a very thoughtful piece: Tortilla chips are just fried corn tortillas, obviously—or pressed and fried masa harin – and before corn becomes ...
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WEBOur latest book is Balmy Nectar, a collection of the best of our writing from here on the blog and across various magazines since 2012.It's available via Amazon worldwide. Our book 20th Century Pub was released in 2017 and is an award-winning rattle through the development of the English pub from beerhouses to micropubs. A new edition of Brew Britannia: the strange rebirth of British beer came ...
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WEBThe class status of Bass in Bristol pubs. By Boak & Bailey. 20th June 2024. 4 Comments. Beer brands have different meanings in different contexts. Especially old ones like Bass which have had time to evolve and mutate. Down here in Bristol, Bass isn’t a rarity. At least not if you get away from the city centre, and swerve the destination ...
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WEBMar 30, 2024 · We’d never really thought about the origins of the phrase ‘noble hops’ but between them Stan Hieronymus’s Hop Queries newsletter and Jeff Alworth’s commentary on it have opened our eyes. Jeff writes: For well over a century, brewers had a stable impression of hop aroma: British good, certain Bavarian and Bohemian varieties excellent (but variable by year), and American and Belgian bad.
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WEBMay 31, 2020 · After a prompt in our email inbox, we got curious about whether any historic recipes for Bass might be in the public domain:. We know it has an ABV of 4.4%. According to this commercial wholesaler’s catalogue, it uses Golding, Fuggles, Progress, Challenger, Styrian Golding, Hercules and Admiral hops – can …