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31-08-2020, 12:03
Visit the Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog site (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/everything-we-wrote-in-august-2020/)
This was a relatively light month for us because we treated ourselves to a week off when we visited London. We managed a few interesting bits, though.We started the month with some first-hand observations (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/pub-life-moving-tables/) of the malice-free but frustrating resistance to following the simple rules laid down by pubs trying to comply with COVID-19 distancing. This prompted a bit of subtweeting here and there from people who hadn’t seen any such worrying behaviour – your mileage may vary, and so on.
In London, we saw a whole range of systems in operation, some more successful than others, and generally managed to have a pretty nice time visiting different bars around Stratford and Hackney (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/craft-beer-hackney-stratford/) over the course of week.
As the Government’s ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme kicked in, we fretted about how it might make things worse for wet-led pubs (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/take-out-to-help-out/) already struggling with decreased business. As it happened, we had chance to talk about this with a publican who confirmed that trade dropped off for them in August.
Ray read*Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes and was delighted to find, amid the Gothic castles and murder, a portrait of a rural Scottish pub where the temperance battle is played out (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/michael-innes-depicts-temperance-tensions-in-scotland/).
Nosing around in the British Newspaper Archive we found mention of a German-style Bier Keller in Coventry which, as we tugged the thread, led us to reflect on another time when people and staff were nervous to go to the pub – the mid-1970s when the IRA was running an active bombing campaign in England (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/afraid-to-go-to-the-pub-1974/).
https://i2.wp.com/boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lbtr_pub_03.jpg?resize=580%2C445&ssl=1
Yesterday morning, we asked for your help identifying a pub (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/a-barclay-perkins-pub-c-1954/) in a brilliant archive film from 1955.
And finally, this morning, we had some thoughts about the advantages of ordering by app (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/another-advantage-of-ordering-via-app/) in bars with extensive beer lists.
There were five editions of our regular Saturday news round-ups with plenty of good stuff, including from some sources new to us:
1 August 2020 | Civil war, wort, Watney’s (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/beer-pubs-links-1-august-2020/)
8 August 2020 | Politics, pool tables, Palestine (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/beer-pub-links-8-august-2020/)
15 August 2020| Wine, IPA, Olga’s beer (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/beer-news-links-15-august-2020/)
22 August 2020 | Flights, Harp, Braumeisters (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/beer-pubs-news-links-22-august-2020/)
29 August 2020 | Festbier, Horner, Chinese beer (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/links-news-beer-pubs-29-august-2020/)
Patreon subscribers got some bonus bits, too including thoughts on the difficulty of telling it like it is (https://www.patreon.com/posts/telling-it-how-40036058); some beers of the weekend (https://www.patreon.com/posts/beers-of-weekend-40090629) notes; pub life observations (https://www.patreon.com/posts/pub-life-banged-40513794); an audio reading (https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-soon-40603055) by Ray of a piece from last year; and a brief comment on the tell-tale Bacchus (https://www.patreon.com/posts/tell-tale-40814212) which gives away a former pub.
We put out a 1,000+ word newsletter with thoughts on London pubs and news on what’s been keeping us busy beyond beer. Sign up for next month’s here (https://boakandbailey.com/contacts-and-about/newsletter/).
And there were bunch of Tweets like this photo of a pub door on a hot day.
Inviting doorway. pic.twitter.com/KXDHoECuq3 (https://t.co/KXDHoECuq3)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) August 4, 2020 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/1290706693777772544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Everything we wrote in August 2020 (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/everything-we-wrote-in-august-2020/) originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog (https://boakandbailey.com)
More... (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/everything-we-wrote-in-august-2020/)
This was a relatively light month for us because we treated ourselves to a week off when we visited London. We managed a few interesting bits, though.We started the month with some first-hand observations (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/pub-life-moving-tables/) of the malice-free but frustrating resistance to following the simple rules laid down by pubs trying to comply with COVID-19 distancing. This prompted a bit of subtweeting here and there from people who hadn’t seen any such worrying behaviour – your mileage may vary, and so on.
In London, we saw a whole range of systems in operation, some more successful than others, and generally managed to have a pretty nice time visiting different bars around Stratford and Hackney (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/craft-beer-hackney-stratford/) over the course of week.
As the Government’s ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme kicked in, we fretted about how it might make things worse for wet-led pubs (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/take-out-to-help-out/) already struggling with decreased business. As it happened, we had chance to talk about this with a publican who confirmed that trade dropped off for them in August.
Ray read*Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes and was delighted to find, amid the Gothic castles and murder, a portrait of a rural Scottish pub where the temperance battle is played out (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/michael-innes-depicts-temperance-tensions-in-scotland/).
Nosing around in the British Newspaper Archive we found mention of a German-style Bier Keller in Coventry which, as we tugged the thread, led us to reflect on another time when people and staff were nervous to go to the pub – the mid-1970s when the IRA was running an active bombing campaign in England (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/afraid-to-go-to-the-pub-1974/).
https://i2.wp.com/boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lbtr_pub_03.jpg?resize=580%2C445&ssl=1
Yesterday morning, we asked for your help identifying a pub (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/a-barclay-perkins-pub-c-1954/) in a brilliant archive film from 1955.
And finally, this morning, we had some thoughts about the advantages of ordering by app (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/another-advantage-of-ordering-via-app/) in bars with extensive beer lists.
There were five editions of our regular Saturday news round-ups with plenty of good stuff, including from some sources new to us:
1 August 2020 | Civil war, wort, Watney’s (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/beer-pubs-links-1-august-2020/)
8 August 2020 | Politics, pool tables, Palestine (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/beer-pub-links-8-august-2020/)
15 August 2020| Wine, IPA, Olga’s beer (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/beer-news-links-15-august-2020/)
22 August 2020 | Flights, Harp, Braumeisters (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/beer-pubs-news-links-22-august-2020/)
29 August 2020 | Festbier, Horner, Chinese beer (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/links-news-beer-pubs-29-august-2020/)
Patreon subscribers got some bonus bits, too including thoughts on the difficulty of telling it like it is (https://www.patreon.com/posts/telling-it-how-40036058); some beers of the weekend (https://www.patreon.com/posts/beers-of-weekend-40090629) notes; pub life observations (https://www.patreon.com/posts/pub-life-banged-40513794); an audio reading (https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-soon-40603055) by Ray of a piece from last year; and a brief comment on the tell-tale Bacchus (https://www.patreon.com/posts/tell-tale-40814212) which gives away a former pub.
We put out a 1,000+ word newsletter with thoughts on London pubs and news on what’s been keeping us busy beyond beer. Sign up for next month’s here (https://boakandbailey.com/contacts-and-about/newsletter/).
And there were bunch of Tweets like this photo of a pub door on a hot day.
Inviting doorway. pic.twitter.com/KXDHoECuq3 (https://t.co/KXDHoECuq3)
— Boak and Bailey (@BoakandBailey) August 4, 2020 (https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/1290706693777772544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Everything we wrote in August 2020 (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/everything-we-wrote-in-august-2020/) originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog (https://boakandbailey.com)
More... (https://boakandbailey.com/2020/08/everything-we-wrote-in-august-2020/)