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01-02-2015, 09:13
Visit the Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog site (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/02/month-january-2015/)
http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/january_month_2015.jpgComing back from Christmas full of vim and vigour and writing resolutions we managed a pretty decent number of posts this month.→ We kicked off the year with our predictions for 2015 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/british-beer-in-the-next-year/). (On a related note, here’s Richard ‘Beercast’ Taylor’s list of breweries to watch in the next 12 months (http://thebeercast.com/2015/01/2015-picks.html).)
→ Our contribution to the 95th beer blogging Session was an attempt to summon into being a readable but scholarly modern history of beer in continental*Europe (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/session-95-beer-books-yet-to-be-written/).
→ We gave some thought to what the embryonic buzz-phrase ‘beer architect’ might mean in practice (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/do-we-want-beer-architects/). (Which prompted some comments from Stan Hieronymus (http://appellationbeer.com/blog/guardians-of-the-temple-of-brewing-culture/).)
It's finally happened: in this month's @vizcomic (https://twitter.com/vizcomic), the Real Ale Twats find their favourite pub overrun with hipsters. pic.twitter.com/h9PgaclkGz (http://t.co/h9PgaclkGz)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) January 8, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/553223357785989120)
→ From our archive of*Brew Britannia interviews, we shared a first-person account of the creation of the lately deceased Draught Burton Ale (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/rip-draught-burton-ale/). (There have also been several interesting pieces (http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/search/search.html?searchType=&searchPhrase=draught+burton+ale&where=&orderByOption=dateDesc) in the*Burton Mail, most notably this account of how brewers at first produced the beer for their own pleasure (http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/retirement-came-birth-Draught-Burton-Ale/story-25922182-detail/story.html).)
→ We revived an old Facebook post, ‘Ten Beers to Try Before You Die! (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/ten-beers-to-try-before-you-die/)‘, which people seemed to enjoy. (Here’s a response from Neil Walker (http://www.eatingisntcheating.co.uk/2015/01/the-best-beer-youll-ever-drink.html), and another, in Portugese, from Brazilian blog (http://www.bebendobem.com.br/2015/01/10-cervejas-para-beber-antes-de-morrer/)Bebendo Bem (http://www.bebendobem.com.br/2015/01/10-cervejas-para-beber-antes-de-morrer/).)
→ Lynn Pearson’s book*Built to Brew rather impressed us (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/book-review-built-to-brew-by-lynn-pearson/).
→ Our resident etiquette expert, R.M. Banks, advised on whether it is appropriate to cheer when bar staff break a glass (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/modern-pubmanship-part-3-broken-glasses/). (No.)
→ Having acquired a copy of*Pubwatching With Desmond Morris, we shared the author’s attempt to categorise pubs as they were in 1993 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/pubwatching-desmond-morris-1993/).
→ After interviewing St Austell’s Roger Ryman we shared his recollections of how Proper Job IPA, our favourite cask ale of 2014, came to be (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/proper-job-ipa-cornwall-via-oregon/).
→*We announced the launch of our new email newsletter (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/from-us-to-you/).
→*We visited two craft beer bars in Exeter: The Beer Cellar (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/the-beer-cellar-exeter/) and St Austell’s new flagship ‘smoke and ale house’ The Samuel Jones (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/samuel-jones-exeter/).
→ With the 1991*East London & City Pub Guide*in hand, we pondered the pubs of Walthamstow, London E17 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/pubs-of-london-e17-1991/).
JOURNALISTS/EDITORS: please stop using this one tired old library image on every single flipping story about beer! pic.twitter.com/iQHkqkvg9K (http://t.co/iQHkqkvg9K)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) January 23, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/558618253564854272)
→ Mixing Proper Job and Orval gave us Proporval, which we loved (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/proporval/). (Others have since recommended Ovalcyon — Orval and Thornbridge Halcyon.)
→ We cried for help in re: some of our ongoing research projects (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/stumped-help/).
→ Why do big breweries take over little ones? We suggested that it is an attempt to ‘buy themselves cool’ (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/great-craft-beer-swindle/), prompting much disagreement in the comments.
→ Off the back of our first email newsletter, Kyle asked us to look into the history of ‘bar snacks’ (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/whats-history-bar-snacks/)*— sheep trotters, tripe, black pudding, and then crisps and more crisps.
→ And, finally, we prodded at the sore point where traditional-family-regional brewing meets ‘craft’ (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/excluded-party/).
Nice hat. http://t.co/s5We7zS53I pic.twitter.com/pvlk9zuY6T (http://t.co/pvlk9zuY6T)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) January 29, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/560869030006124545)
→ Beers tasted in January:
Fantôme Saison and Brise-BonBons (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/fantome-saison-brise-bonbons/)
Fuller’s Past Masters Strong X (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/fullers-past-masters-1914-strong-x/)
Rooster’s Fort Smith and Baby Faced Assassin in cans (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/roosters-cans/)
→ There were also a few*hopefully thought-provoking quotations (http://boakandbailey.com/type/quote/), offered without comment; a gallery of photos from Bailey’s family album (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/gallery-artillery-inn-exeter-1980s/); and a couple of videos (http://boakandbailey.com/type/video/), too.
The Month That Was: January 2015 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/02/month-january-2015/) from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Over-thinking beer, pubs and the meaning of craft since 2007 (http://boakandbailey.com)
More... (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/02/month-january-2015/)
http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/january_month_2015.jpgComing back from Christmas full of vim and vigour and writing resolutions we managed a pretty decent number of posts this month.→ We kicked off the year with our predictions for 2015 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/british-beer-in-the-next-year/). (On a related note, here’s Richard ‘Beercast’ Taylor’s list of breweries to watch in the next 12 months (http://thebeercast.com/2015/01/2015-picks.html).)
→ Our contribution to the 95th beer blogging Session was an attempt to summon into being a readable but scholarly modern history of beer in continental*Europe (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/session-95-beer-books-yet-to-be-written/).
→ We gave some thought to what the embryonic buzz-phrase ‘beer architect’ might mean in practice (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/do-we-want-beer-architects/). (Which prompted some comments from Stan Hieronymus (http://appellationbeer.com/blog/guardians-of-the-temple-of-brewing-culture/).)
It's finally happened: in this month's @vizcomic (https://twitter.com/vizcomic), the Real Ale Twats find their favourite pub overrun with hipsters. pic.twitter.com/h9PgaclkGz (http://t.co/h9PgaclkGz)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) January 8, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/553223357785989120)
→ From our archive of*Brew Britannia interviews, we shared a first-person account of the creation of the lately deceased Draught Burton Ale (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/rip-draught-burton-ale/). (There have also been several interesting pieces (http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/search/search.html?searchType=&searchPhrase=draught+burton+ale&where=&orderByOption=dateDesc) in the*Burton Mail, most notably this account of how brewers at first produced the beer for their own pleasure (http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/retirement-came-birth-Draught-Burton-Ale/story-25922182-detail/story.html).)
→ We revived an old Facebook post, ‘Ten Beers to Try Before You Die! (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/ten-beers-to-try-before-you-die/)‘, which people seemed to enjoy. (Here’s a response from Neil Walker (http://www.eatingisntcheating.co.uk/2015/01/the-best-beer-youll-ever-drink.html), and another, in Portugese, from Brazilian blog (http://www.bebendobem.com.br/2015/01/10-cervejas-para-beber-antes-de-morrer/)Bebendo Bem (http://www.bebendobem.com.br/2015/01/10-cervejas-para-beber-antes-de-morrer/).)
→ Lynn Pearson’s book*Built to Brew rather impressed us (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/book-review-built-to-brew-by-lynn-pearson/).
→ Our resident etiquette expert, R.M. Banks, advised on whether it is appropriate to cheer when bar staff break a glass (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/modern-pubmanship-part-3-broken-glasses/). (No.)
→ Having acquired a copy of*Pubwatching With Desmond Morris, we shared the author’s attempt to categorise pubs as they were in 1993 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/pubwatching-desmond-morris-1993/).
→ After interviewing St Austell’s Roger Ryman we shared his recollections of how Proper Job IPA, our favourite cask ale of 2014, came to be (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/proper-job-ipa-cornwall-via-oregon/).
→*We announced the launch of our new email newsletter (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/from-us-to-you/).
→*We visited two craft beer bars in Exeter: The Beer Cellar (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/the-beer-cellar-exeter/) and St Austell’s new flagship ‘smoke and ale house’ The Samuel Jones (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/samuel-jones-exeter/).
→ With the 1991*East London & City Pub Guide*in hand, we pondered the pubs of Walthamstow, London E17 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/pubs-of-london-e17-1991/).
JOURNALISTS/EDITORS: please stop using this one tired old library image on every single flipping story about beer! pic.twitter.com/iQHkqkvg9K (http://t.co/iQHkqkvg9K)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) January 23, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/558618253564854272)
→ Mixing Proper Job and Orval gave us Proporval, which we loved (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/proporval/). (Others have since recommended Ovalcyon — Orval and Thornbridge Halcyon.)
→ We cried for help in re: some of our ongoing research projects (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/stumped-help/).
→ Why do big breweries take over little ones? We suggested that it is an attempt to ‘buy themselves cool’ (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/great-craft-beer-swindle/), prompting much disagreement in the comments.
→ Off the back of our first email newsletter, Kyle asked us to look into the history of ‘bar snacks’ (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/whats-history-bar-snacks/)*— sheep trotters, tripe, black pudding, and then crisps and more crisps.
→ And, finally, we prodded at the sore point where traditional-family-regional brewing meets ‘craft’ (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/excluded-party/).
Nice hat. http://t.co/s5We7zS53I pic.twitter.com/pvlk9zuY6T (http://t.co/pvlk9zuY6T)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) January 29, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/560869030006124545)
→ Beers tasted in January:
Fantôme Saison and Brise-BonBons (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/fantome-saison-brise-bonbons/)
Fuller’s Past Masters Strong X (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/fullers-past-masters-1914-strong-x/)
Rooster’s Fort Smith and Baby Faced Assassin in cans (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/roosters-cans/)
→ There were also a few*hopefully thought-provoking quotations (http://boakandbailey.com/type/quote/), offered without comment; a gallery of photos from Bailey’s family album (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/gallery-artillery-inn-exeter-1980s/); and a couple of videos (http://boakandbailey.com/type/video/), too.
The Month That Was: January 2015 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/02/month-january-2015/) from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Over-thinking beer, pubs and the meaning of craft since 2007 (http://boakandbailey.com)
More... (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/02/month-january-2015/)