Reinvention and redundancy - Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
Pubs, breweries and, uh, massive campaigning organisations can reinvent themselves. Or they can declare themselves redundant.| boakandbailey.substack.com
Pubs, breweries and, uh, massive campaigning organisations can reinvent themselves. Or they can declare themselves redundant.| boakandbailey.substack.com
Perhaps brewers are too polite to copy each other’s homework. Maybe brewing clones is not really possible. Or it could just be an understandable fear of lawyers.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
There's summer, when you want to hang out in a beer garden and drink lager. And there are heatwaves, when you want to hide and chew ice cubes.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
When we walk into a pub and see these breweries' beers on the bar we get a little bit excited and know we're going to end up stuck for a session.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
Ordering "the blandest thing on the menu" is a great way to understand whether a brewery really knows what it's doing.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
Whether we realise it or not, most of us seek pubs (and beers) which require us to use less brain power, and to do less on-the-fly risk assessment.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
“We’re not allowed to eat pudding anymore so we’re smoking and drinking it instead.”| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
Or, how beer drinkers can simply ignore a brand to death without ever quite hating it.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
As the nights draw in, we've been trying to get out and about, pounding the streets of Bristol to check in on its many and varied pubs, bars and taprooms.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
Privately we've started describing certain beers this way – those which walk a tightrope between past and present.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
When we talk about ‘perfect pubs’ do we give enough credit to the contribution of individual publicans or managers?| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
With Good Beer Hunting leaving the scene what does that mean for people who pay the mortgage writing about booze and boozers?| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
There are few better ways to get to know a town or city than to go on a pub crawl with your eyes and brain engaged.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
In which, desperate for attention, we put forward a controversial opinion.| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
Are paper pub guides still useful in 2024 – as guides to pubs, or for any other purpose?| Boak & Bailey's Newsletter
Starting with a focus on the city where we live we ponder what a healthy beer culture looks like and whether 2024 is better than 2014.| boakandbailey.substack.com
Our monthly update on beer and pubs. Click to read Boak & Bailey's Newsletter, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| boakandbailey.substack.com
Sure, it might be fun to use, and might feel magical – but AI artwork on your beer packaging is a major turnoff.| boakandbailey.substack.com
It's the time of year for reflecting, making plans for next year, and bonding in the mead hall by eating and drinking far too much.| boakandbailey.substack.com
This month's newsletter has notes on dodgy beer, a death in the family, and the importance of alt text.| boakandbailey.substack.com
People want beer stories to be about passion, creativity, flavour and pluck. But just as often they're about business, bureaucracy and admin.| boakandbailey.substack.com
It’s easy to be gloomy but what if we focus on what’s got better, and learn to let go of the past?| boakandbailey.substack.com
Some end-of-year reflections on how we do what we do, based on questions asked throughout the year.| boakandbailey.substack.com
If you're seeing more mild and bitter around, it might be because of tax, competition for taps, or simply our general tiredness.| boakandbailey.substack.com
In the July 2023 newsletter we're pondering on why the beer scene feels so flat right now – and how we might bring the excitement back.| boakandbailey.substack.com
