No Marketing Budget in Post-war Devon
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007We found the above on the flyleaf of a The Homeland Guide to Dartmoor (undated but c.1947). It’s hard to imagine a plainer...
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Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007Phew. The Beer Babe has chosen a Session topic we can address without hunting high and low for exotic imported bottles: she wants us...
View ArticleAn Enigmatic Beer
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007As a beer, we were pleasantly surprised by TED from Flat Cap. It smelled great — citrus hops leaping out of the glass — and tasted,...
View ArticleThe Town Pale Ale Built
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007Arriving in Burton (upon Trent; on Trent; -on-Trent), the first thing we noticed was the smell: as in Bamberg, the aromas of brewing...
View ArticleEuropean Beer, New World Hops
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007The only thing the two beers reviewed below have in common is that they are from countries where experiments with new world hops are a...
View ArticleRefreshing Pale Ale, Delhi, 1857
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Views on beer and pubs since 2007in his diaries, published posthumously in 1894, General Sir James Hope Grant (1808-1875) recalled the siege of Delhi during the 1857...
View ArticleThe Antidote to Style Fragmentation: Everything is Pale Ale
OK, so that headline over-states the case — we’re aware of the existence of stout! — but hopefully you catch our drift: if you go back far enough, we’re all related. This chart was only put together...
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