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“Before opening time there is a beautiful, virgin aroma of freshness, an inimitable pub-perfume mixture of hops and malt, spirits and polish with perhaps a faint touch of violet-scented air-freshener. This is my boyhood nostalgia. Spilt ale, dried and sugar-sticky.”

Adrian Bailey in an essay for*Len Deighton’s London Dossier, 1967.
QUOTE: Pub Perfume from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Over-thinking beer, pubs and the meaning of craft since 2007


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