It’s been 10 years since our book Brew Britannia was published, and 7 since the follow-up 20th Century Pub. Where is British beer today?| Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog
In the 1990s a new type of beer arrived on the UK scene and caused serious disruption to the market. It came to be known as nitrokeg.| Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog
It’s a standing joke amongst horror fans that you can make the case for almost anything to be ‘folk horror’. But what about real ale?| Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog
I’m a bit of a hippy and I like hippy pubs. There – I've said it. It’s just a shame Ray doesn’t.| Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog
Buxton calling in administrators got us thinking about breweries that are merely quite good – and how that's a tricky space to occupy.| Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog
A fun question to ask of any apparently irrational human behaviour is “What’s the evolutionary advantage?” Consider drunkenness, for example. Ray recently read William Golding’s 1955 novel The Inheritors. It’s about a band of Neanderthals struggling for survival in the forests of prehistoric Europe as a new threat emerges – Homo sapiens, AKA modern man, […]| Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog
Chance & Counters isn’t a pub, or even a bar. It’s a board game cafe. And on Friday night, it was remarkably busy.| Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog