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How Many Pubs Are We Actually Losing? 27 Aug 2013 | 01:45 pm
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 We were surprised to note from Ron Pattinson’s very useful compilation of beer- and pub-related statistics that the number of pubs in E...
Two American Wheat Beers 25 Aug 2013 | 11:57 am
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 ‘I’m such a huge obsessive enthusiast for American wheat beers,’ said no-one, ever. After our recent experience with a Japanese wheat b...
Fordham Flower on Keg vs. Cask 24 Aug 2013 | 11:38 am
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 “[A] fair description of a beer keg is a smallish metal cask, from which beer is dispensed by carbon-dioxide pressure, and of which the...
Bits of Yolk From the Pickled Egg Jar 23 Aug 2013 | 12:43 pm
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 Here are a few things we’ve spotted around and about that prompted a thought or two. 1. This interview with James Watt from the Daily M...
Pubs: Forget Sky Sports, Get Rats! 22 Aug 2013 | 12:57 pm
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 The grand consumption of rats… is in Bunhill-row, at a public-house kept by a pugilist. A rat-seller told me that from 200 to 500 rats ...
British Lager: Getting There 21 Aug 2013 | 12:38 pm
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 We’re fascinated by British lager and try as many as we can get our hands on, hoping to find one which can compete with its German or C...
Gallery: Postcards of Inns & Pubs 19 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 A few postcards foraged from a junk shop. Gallery: Postcards of Inns & Pubs
The Only Draught Around Here Now 19 Aug 2013 | 12:41 pm
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 The Tan Hill Inn was included in the gallery of ‘Old Inns’ we posted the other day and, by coincidence, cropped up in an angry letter i...
The Pub Remains the Default 18 Aug 2013 | 12:11 pm
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 People worry about pubs: they’re in decline, disappearing, not what they used to be. If they do survive, argues M. Lawrenson, it will b...
Food and Beer Matching, 1931 17 Aug 2013 | 12:15 pm
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007 “About what should and should not be eaten with beer I would hesitate to lay down the law so forcibly and finally as do the writers upo...
