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12-07-2014, 07:22
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Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Writing about beer and pubs since 2007 (http://boakandbailey.com)
http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dewars_whisky_connoisseur_1905.pngFrom 1905. Sadly, he’s drinking whisky, not beer, but we like the image too much not to share it. It’s time for our weekly round-up of interesting stuff from around the internet.*Don’t take it too serious — not many do.*Read between the lines and you’ll find the truth. → The schedule for London Beer Week (9-16 August) looks pretty impressive (http://www.londonbeercity.com/schedule/). If you’re a beer geek planning to visit the UK, this might help you decide where to stay and when. (Are there politics behind the fact that the site doesn’t mention this is also the week of the Great British Beer Festival…? (http://gbbf.org.uk/))
→*Their beer coverage isn’t always particularly deep but this piece from Serious Eats*on*how beer prices*are set*has lots to chew on (http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/07/how-beer-prices-are-set-why-beer-costs-different-amounts-at-bars.html): “Typically, in a restaurant, you want to keep your food costs and so forth at 33 percent… So, a lot people simply multiply [the product cost] by 3.”
→ ‘How To Blow $9 Billion: The Fallen Stroh Family’ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2014/07/08/how-the-stroh-family-lost-the-largest-private-beer-fortune-in-the-u-s/),*from*Forbes magazine. (2000 words; via Tim Holt (https://twitter.com/BeerHasAHistory).)
→ Back in 2011, local historian Patrick Carroll attempted to sift facts from the mass of myths and outright fibs surrounding the history of the legendary Blue Anchor pub at Helston (http://www.patrickcarroll.co.uk/?p=161), Cornwall. (3,500 words.)
→ Derek Dellinger argues that beer styles should be taken less seriously (http://www.bear-flavored.com/2014/07/why-we-should-take-beer-styles-less.html)*while seeming to take them*quite seriously: “When I pick up a bottle and there’s no style or description at all, nothing but a cute name and a government warning, I become so annoyed that I will almost never buy that beer.*Give me at least an*idea*of what the beer is — however you want to do that.” (1600 words.)
→ Emma has written about the apparently sensitive subject of women drinking alone in pubs and the harassment they sometimes experience (http://cremasbeerodyssey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/it-takes-certain-ballsiness-to-go-to.html).
→ Tangential pub content, but a good read anyway (http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/ripley/):
For 30 years, the Ripley Road was the go-to destination for the smart set of the day: young, athletic gentlemen at first; radical, bloomer-wearing ladies later. The ten miles between the Angel Inn at Thames Ditton and the Anchor hotel at Ripley were world-famous, and busy with cyclists on all manner of machines. → Hayley Flynn explored a well-preserved 1960′s shopping arcade in Manchester (http://untappedcities.com/2012/09/03/manchesters-ghost-market-at-the-stretford-mall/)*but couldn’t get into the locked-up and dormant El Patio pub. (via Pubs of Manchester*Twitter (https://twitter.com/Pubs_of_Mcr) | Web (http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/))
→ And, finally, does anyone know if this is actually legal..?
A workaround for the UK's restrictions on beer serving measures? pic.twitter.com/IDccSoRy7f (http://t.co/IDccSoRy7f)
— The Beer Nut (@thebeernut) July 10, 2014 (https://twitter.com/thebeernut/statuses/487240154772672512)
News, Nuggets & Longreads 12/07/2014 (http://boakandbailey.com/2014/07/news-nuggets-longreads-12072014/)
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Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Writing about beer and pubs since 2007 (http://boakandbailey.com)
http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dewars_whisky_connoisseur_1905.pngFrom 1905. Sadly, he’s drinking whisky, not beer, but we like the image too much not to share it. It’s time for our weekly round-up of interesting stuff from around the internet.*Don’t take it too serious — not many do.*Read between the lines and you’ll find the truth. → The schedule for London Beer Week (9-16 August) looks pretty impressive (http://www.londonbeercity.com/schedule/). If you’re a beer geek planning to visit the UK, this might help you decide where to stay and when. (Are there politics behind the fact that the site doesn’t mention this is also the week of the Great British Beer Festival…? (http://gbbf.org.uk/))
→*Their beer coverage isn’t always particularly deep but this piece from Serious Eats*on*how beer prices*are set*has lots to chew on (http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/07/how-beer-prices-are-set-why-beer-costs-different-amounts-at-bars.html): “Typically, in a restaurant, you want to keep your food costs and so forth at 33 percent… So, a lot people simply multiply [the product cost] by 3.”
→ ‘How To Blow $9 Billion: The Fallen Stroh Family’ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2014/07/08/how-the-stroh-family-lost-the-largest-private-beer-fortune-in-the-u-s/),*from*Forbes magazine. (2000 words; via Tim Holt (https://twitter.com/BeerHasAHistory).)
→ Back in 2011, local historian Patrick Carroll attempted to sift facts from the mass of myths and outright fibs surrounding the history of the legendary Blue Anchor pub at Helston (http://www.patrickcarroll.co.uk/?p=161), Cornwall. (3,500 words.)
→ Derek Dellinger argues that beer styles should be taken less seriously (http://www.bear-flavored.com/2014/07/why-we-should-take-beer-styles-less.html)*while seeming to take them*quite seriously: “When I pick up a bottle and there’s no style or description at all, nothing but a cute name and a government warning, I become so annoyed that I will almost never buy that beer.*Give me at least an*idea*of what the beer is — however you want to do that.” (1600 words.)
→ Emma has written about the apparently sensitive subject of women drinking alone in pubs and the harassment they sometimes experience (http://cremasbeerodyssey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/it-takes-certain-ballsiness-to-go-to.html).
→ Tangential pub content, but a good read anyway (http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/ripley/):
For 30 years, the Ripley Road was the go-to destination for the smart set of the day: young, athletic gentlemen at first; radical, bloomer-wearing ladies later. The ten miles between the Angel Inn at Thames Ditton and the Anchor hotel at Ripley were world-famous, and busy with cyclists on all manner of machines. → Hayley Flynn explored a well-preserved 1960′s shopping arcade in Manchester (http://untappedcities.com/2012/09/03/manchesters-ghost-market-at-the-stretford-mall/)*but couldn’t get into the locked-up and dormant El Patio pub. (via Pubs of Manchester*Twitter (https://twitter.com/Pubs_of_Mcr) | Web (http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/))
→ And, finally, does anyone know if this is actually legal..?
A workaround for the UK's restrictions on beer serving measures? pic.twitter.com/IDccSoRy7f (http://t.co/IDccSoRy7f)
— The Beer Nut (@thebeernut) July 10, 2014 (https://twitter.com/thebeernut/statuses/487240154772672512)
News, Nuggets & Longreads 12/07/2014 (http://boakandbailey.com/2014/07/news-nuggets-longreads-12072014/)
More... (http://boakandbailey.com/2014/07/news-nuggets-longreads-12072014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-nuggets-longreads-12072014)