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16-08-2014, 10:01
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Cock-a-doodle-doo! Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning-aaaah! Nothing to do but read these links, eat some bacon.→ The picture at the top of this post comes from*Street Life in London, a collection of photographs from 1877-78, with accompanying essays, which is available online through the the London School of Economics digital library (http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/streetlifeinlondon). There are a couple of other pictures of pubs in the set.
→ Notoriously aromatic and bitter, Ballantine was arguably the single most influential beer in the*aromatic IPA-mania of the last 30-odd years, and now it’s back (http://appellationbeer.com/blog/pabst-ipa-welcome-to-2014/). This is one American beer we will be making serious efforts to get our hands on.
→ In the week when the Campaign for Real Ale launches a drive to change the law to make it hard to convert pubs into shops or homes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28747118), Martyn ‘Zythophile’ Cornell argues vehemently that they’re on the wrong track (http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/why-the-micropub-association-should-be-furious-with-camra/):
Pubs are not sacred. The rights of pubgoers do not trump the rights of property owners. The disappearance of any pub is not the same as, eg, the disappearance of a Saxon church…*If a pub is making less money for its owner than it would under another use, the owner must have the right to maximise their income.
→ On a somewhat related note, prolific epistolarian, committed Marxist, and beer-loving celebrity beard-sporter Keith Flett writes about ‘The Moral Economy of the Great British Beer Festival (http://kmflett.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/so-you-want-a-revolution-the-moral-economy-of-the-great-british-beer-festival-revisited/)‘:
The concept of the moral economy, developed by the late historian EP Thompson in 1971, is to posit a customary and traditional way of looking at things in relation to a market economy. The moral economy does not aim to replace a market economy but to temper with a framework of laws and obligations…*I think there is an interesting case for understanding the Great British Beer Festival as an annual gathering of those who take a moral economic view of the beer world.
→ Saved to Pocket (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/getpocket.com) this week: a piece from the Washington City Paper about cult beers, customer entitlement, and the competitive urge which is making beer less sociable (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/08/13/what-matters-more-the-quest-for-new-beer-or-the-beer/). (Via Stan Hieronymus (https://twitter.com/StanHieronymus/status/499924069257457664).)
→ We like this picture because (a) hops and (b) London E17:
Mission Grove primary school E17 growing hops AND it is on Buxton Rd. Nice one! pic.twitter.com/Q34rtdErym (http://t.co/Q34rtdErym)
— Braumaster Ben (@BraumasterBen) August 14, 2014 (https://twitter.com/BraumasterBen/statuses/499981427786936320)
And, finally, there are a couple of beer stories that went sufficiently mainstream ‘viral’ that we’d surprised if anyone missed them, but, just in case…
→ The Daily Beast wrote a profile of Kent ‘Battle’ Martin, the civil servant*who approves US beer labels (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/12/meet-the-beer-bottle-dictator.html):*‘He rejected an “Adnams Broadside” beer, which touted itself as a*“heart-warming ale,”*because this supposedly involved a medical claim.’.
→ Tony Naylor wrote a substantial piece on the current UK ‘craft beer’ boom for the the*Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/13/craft-beer-revolution-hops-brewers-flavours). (If you must read the ranting comments, note the unjustified confidence with which many*people issue downright rude ‘corrections’.)
News, Nuggets & Longreads 16/08/2014 (http://boakandbailey.com/2014/08/news-nuggets-longreads-16082014/)
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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/2014/08/old_boys_outside_pub_474.jpg
Cock-a-doodle-doo! Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning-aaaah! Nothing to do but read these links, eat some bacon.→ The picture at the top of this post comes from*Street Life in London, a collection of photographs from 1877-78, with accompanying essays, which is available online through the the London School of Economics digital library (http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/streetlifeinlondon). There are a couple of other pictures of pubs in the set.
→ Notoriously aromatic and bitter, Ballantine was arguably the single most influential beer in the*aromatic IPA-mania of the last 30-odd years, and now it’s back (http://appellationbeer.com/blog/pabst-ipa-welcome-to-2014/). This is one American beer we will be making serious efforts to get our hands on.
→ In the week when the Campaign for Real Ale launches a drive to change the law to make it hard to convert pubs into shops or homes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28747118), Martyn ‘Zythophile’ Cornell argues vehemently that they’re on the wrong track (http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/why-the-micropub-association-should-be-furious-with-camra/):
Pubs are not sacred. The rights of pubgoers do not trump the rights of property owners. The disappearance of any pub is not the same as, eg, the disappearance of a Saxon church…*If a pub is making less money for its owner than it would under another use, the owner must have the right to maximise their income.
→ On a somewhat related note, prolific epistolarian, committed Marxist, and beer-loving celebrity beard-sporter Keith Flett writes about ‘The Moral Economy of the Great British Beer Festival (http://kmflett.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/so-you-want-a-revolution-the-moral-economy-of-the-great-british-beer-festival-revisited/)‘:
The concept of the moral economy, developed by the late historian EP Thompson in 1971, is to posit a customary and traditional way of looking at things in relation to a market economy. The moral economy does not aim to replace a market economy but to temper with a framework of laws and obligations…*I think there is an interesting case for understanding the Great British Beer Festival as an annual gathering of those who take a moral economic view of the beer world.
→ Saved to Pocket (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/getpocket.com) this week: a piece from the Washington City Paper about cult beers, customer entitlement, and the competitive urge which is making beer less sociable (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2014/08/13/what-matters-more-the-quest-for-new-beer-or-the-beer/). (Via Stan Hieronymus (https://twitter.com/StanHieronymus/status/499924069257457664).)
→ We like this picture because (a) hops and (b) London E17:
Mission Grove primary school E17 growing hops AND it is on Buxton Rd. Nice one! pic.twitter.com/Q34rtdErym (http://t.co/Q34rtdErym)
— Braumaster Ben (@BraumasterBen) August 14, 2014 (https://twitter.com/BraumasterBen/statuses/499981427786936320)
And, finally, there are a couple of beer stories that went sufficiently mainstream ‘viral’ that we’d surprised if anyone missed them, but, just in case…
→ The Daily Beast wrote a profile of Kent ‘Battle’ Martin, the civil servant*who approves US beer labels (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/12/meet-the-beer-bottle-dictator.html):*‘He rejected an “Adnams Broadside” beer, which touted itself as a*“heart-warming ale,”*because this supposedly involved a medical claim.’.
→ Tony Naylor wrote a substantial piece on the current UK ‘craft beer’ boom for the the*Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/13/craft-beer-revolution-hops-brewers-flavours). (If you must read the ranting comments, note the unjustified confidence with which many*people issue downright rude ‘corrections’.)
News, Nuggets & Longreads 16/08/2014 (http://boakandbailey.com/2014/08/news-nuggets-longreads-16082014/)
More... (http://boakandbailey.com/2014/08/news-nuggets-longreads-16082014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-nuggets-longreads-16082014)