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http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/breakfast_news_nuggets_red_bacon_butty.pngThis is a scheduled post that we wrote on*Thursday, by which time we already had a crazy number of interesting links in our stash.→*First, an update on a story from a couple of weeks ago: the developers who illegally demolished the Carlton Tavern in London’s Maida Vale earlier this month have been ordered to rebuild it so that it looks exactly as it did before demolition (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/developer-told-to-rebuild-maida-vale-pub-brick-by-brick-after-site-torn-down-without-notice-10211892.html). (This story has not only gone mainstream but also global: people really don’t like ruthless property developers.)
→ Award-winning blogger Bryan D. Roth gave us a two part epic about the economics of barrel-ageing, and of acquiring suitable barrels. Pt 1:*Over a Barrel — The Rising Cost of a Speciality Beer (https://thisiswhyimdrunk.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/over-a-barrel-the-rising-cost-for-a-specialty-beer/) | Pt 2: Reporter’s Notebook — Why I Wanted to Write About Barrels (https://thisiswhyimdrunk.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/reporters-notebook-why-i-wanted-to-write-about-barrels/).
→ Benjamin Nunn took Windsor & Eton to task (http://benviveur.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/tying-myself-in-windsor-eton-knots.html) over the lack of clarity in the distinction between two beers with the same name, but at drastically different strengths: ‘How on the remotest quarters of King John’s Earth can 7.2% and 4.0% beer possibly be the same thing? It’s ridiculous.’
→ Matt Górecki, lately manager of Leeds’s North Bar and now an independent consultant and brewer, wrote a piece for Glynn Davis’s new*Beer Insider*website exposing the tension between north and south in British craft beer (http://beerinsider.com/northern-fightback/): ‘There was a slight bitterness in the North, a tangible harrumph when London went from “beer wasteland” to “totes craft” in the space of about six months in 2012.’
→ For the Morning Advertiser,*Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland*provided a lengthy inside view of the campaign to ‘Save the Pub’ (http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Legal/Property-law/Greg-Mulholland-Save-the-Pub-Group-pub-champion):
It seemed – and the pubcos and their lobbyists and friends, inside and outside Westminister were sure – that this issue was done and dusted for the parliament. A phoney ‘solution’ that would simply allow business as usual. Well they didn’t bank on the detailed Freedom of Information requests and the hours of analysis of the findings by me and Fair Pint founder Simon Clarke. What we unearthed – the obvious collusion between BIS and the pubcos – was devastating, BIS had cut and pasted the BBPA’s solution and slapped a logo on and presented it as their own, including even the same typos.
→ For*All About Beer, Jeff Alworth considered the narrowing gap between established ‘craft’ and the ‘crafty’ end of big beer (http://allaboutbeer.com/state-of-beer/) —*‘that bright line separating the corner brewery and Budweiser is getting fuzzier by the day’.
→ The launch of BrewDog’s fourth Equity for Punks crowd-funding scheme prompted this piece from*Moneyweek‘s John Stepek: (http://moneyweek.com/money-morning-brewdog-shares-craft-beer-bubble/)
What’s different about the BrewDog offering is that, technically, it’s an investment. You are buying a stake in the company. But really, on these terms, it’s no less of a ‘hobbyist’ investment than buying a virtual spaceship.
(Via @aletalk, via @philmellows (https://twitter.com/philmellows/status/592686478762868740).)
→ Lars Marius Garshol provided a typically evocative survey of the beer scene in Riga, Latvia (http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/328.html):
Labietis is a modern craft brewery, but not in the naive “let’s brew some IPAs and porters” type of way. Instead, they’ve been very creative, drawing on past traditions without necessarily attempting (or pretending to attempt) any kind of historical veracity. Their Radzinš (4.3%, 11 IBU) is a wheat beer flavoured with carraway (as in some Norwegian farmhouse ales), and quite a lot of carraway by the flavour.
→ And, finally, we hadn’t realised quite how desperate things had become until we saw this:

Gravy is in the can. I repeat: GRAVY IS IN THE CAN. "@Eamonn_Forde (https://twitter.com/Eamonn_Forde): Inside the Camden Hells can is… gravy. pic.twitter.com/4KRil8DP9w (http://t.co/4KRil8DP9w)”
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) April 27, 2015 (https://twitter.com/WeWantPlates/status/592794250384961537)


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