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04-10-2015, 10:12
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More or less back on schedule, here’s everything we wrote in September 2015 in one handy round-up. → Brewers might not all be ‘passionate’ but they’re not all money-grubbing cynics either — most exist somewhere in-between (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/somewhere-between-passion-and-greed/), but tending towards the former over the latter.
→ We weren’t hugely impressed by Schneider’s Meine Porter Weisse (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/does-it-work-and-is-it-worth-a-tenner/), especially at £10 a bottle.
→ For the 103rd session we wrote about the dominance of middle class voices in beer writing (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/session-103-the-hard-stuff/).
→ We reviewed the new edition of Des de Moor’s*London’s Best Beer, Pubs & Bars: (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/book-review-londons-best-beer-pubs-bars/)
If you live in London and like beer, you should certainly get a copy, but our tip would be to leave it at work so that, when friends or colleagues say, ‘I don’t mind where we go for a pint as long as it’s near*X’, you’ll always have a suggestion at hand.
→ We asked for our readers’ help in working out how many craft beer bars there are (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/so-how-many-craft-beer-bars-are-there/). We’ll be doing something with this information soon. (This got Matt at*When My Feet Go Through the Door wondering about the similarly vague concept of ‘the proper pub’ (http://whenmyfeetgothroughthedoor.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/a-proper-pub.html).)
http://i0.wp.com/boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/aquarius_birmingham_800.jpg?resize=300%2C191The Aquarius AKA the Bluebell, Chelmsley, Birmingham, which now looks like this. → We posted a gallery of*1960s Watney’s pubs from matchbox covers (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/gallery-modern-watneys-pubs-from-matchboxes/)*which prompted thoughts on post-war pubs from the Pub Curmudgeon (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/gallery-modern-watneys-pubs-from-matchboxes/).
→*Working on*Gambrinus Waltz we accumulated some odds-and-ends on lager beer in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester which we compiled here (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/lager-beer-in-19th-century-manchester/) in the hope it might set someone else off to do more research.
→ Do you remember Colonel Pepper’s Lemon Ale launched by Whitbread in 1995 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/artyfacts-from-the-nyneties-1-lemon-ale/)? (Tandleman does and has the T-shirt to prove it (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/actual-artifacts-from-actual-nineties.html).)
→ There was a pretty decent foreign list at the 1993 Great British Beer Festival (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/artyfacts-from-the-nyneties-2-world-beer-menu-1993/), back before Belgo had proper graphic design, and when Pete’s Wicked Ale was the coolest US beer in town.
→ Serving ourself beer at a bar in Nice was great fun (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/serve-yourself-in-nice/);*a neighbourhood brewery tap in Marseille was interesting (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/good-beer-in-marseille-pt-1-la-plaine/); and the latter city’s two specialist beer bars were enjoyable in different ways (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/good-beer-in-marseille-pt-2-big-menu-bars/).
→ When and why did Samuel Smith start buying up pubs in London (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/sam-smith-hits-london-1978/)? (Updated with a brief response from the brewery.)
→ The hottest taverns in Bristol in 1815 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/bristols-top-taverns-1815/) are mostly gone –demolished, blitzed or improved out of existence in the last 200 years.
http://i2.wp.com/boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/english_inn_bar_fountain.jpg?resize=300%2C140‘Fig. 1316 is a view of the inside of the counter, looking from the bar-room, in which k is a six-motion beer-machine to draw the beer and ale of different ages and qualities from the butts in the cellar. Beneath this machine… is a projecting tray, the bottom of which is formed of a grating, or of a pierced plate of pewter, the holes being about the eighth of an inch in diameter; over this the beer is drawn into the pots and the droppings are collected by this grating, and passed down, by means of a tube, to a vat in the cellar. This waste beer is taken back by the brewers, and an identical quantity of new beer given in exchange…’ → Mostly intending to flag its existence for others who take an interest in pub history and architecture, we shared some images from*J.C. Loudon’s*Encyclopaedia*of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture*published in 1846 (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/gallery-pub-architecture-1846/).
→ We also posted two links round-ups on 5 September (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/news-nuggets-longreads-05092015/) and 26 September (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/09/news-nuggets-longreads-26092015/), with the latter also gathering recommendations we made on Twitter while we were away.
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