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BLOG POST: The bizarre experience of smoky craft beer bars in Serbia: "We remembered smoky pubs but we’d never known smoky craft beer bars or taprooms... So, this wasn’t quite like going back in time so much as stepping into an alternate reality." 🍺🍻
https://boakandbailey.com/2025/05/the-bizarre-experience-of-smoky-craft-beer-bars-in-serbia/
Thanks to holiday flat wi-fi in Sarajevo we've managed to put together our newsletter for May. It's mostly about lager and the concept of the 'calibration lager'. Subscribers -- it'll be in your inboxes. Everyone else (losers) can find it online here:
https://boakandbailey.substack.com/p/pils-please-the-power-of-the-calibration
GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly collection of interesting beer and pub writing, including a couple of substantial interviews, Brussels beer reviews, guides to the sunny pubs of Dublin, a grumble about supermarket beer, and musings on community. 🍺🍻
https://boakandbailey.com/2025/05/news-nuggets-and-longreads-17-may-2025-city-of-last-chances/
BLOG POST: [Jerry Seinfeld voice] What's with all the skulls in craft beer? Do they want us to think about our own mortality as we consume the death juice? 🍺🍻
https://boakandbailey.com/2025/05/why-are-skulls-a-craft-beer-thing/
The latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads is now live on the blog, with notes on Ilkley, low-alcohol beer, fancy draught, cheesy snacks, and Duvel. 🍺🍻
https://boakandbailey.com/2025/05/news-nuggets-and-longreads-10-may-2025-hell-house/
HAPPY SATURDAY! Here's our latest round up of good writing about beer, brewing and pubs, with a bit of a recurring theme about which breweries get supported, and by whom. 🍺🍻
https://boakandbailey.com/2025/05/news-nuggets-and-longreads-3-may-2025-istanbul-not-constantinople/
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got trains, indie beer, and wallpaper. First, some news, via John ‘The Beer Nut’ Duffy and the European Beer Consumers’ Union (EBCU). We’ve just spent several weeks travelling across Europe by train and bus, finally reaching Istanbul, only […]
BLOG POST: "Sometimes you go for a beer and a bite to eat and find yourself in the jaws of a machine – and it’s not always an unpleasant experience....." 🍺🍻
https://boakandbailey.com/2025/04/appreciating-the-machine-in-hospitality/
Sometimes you go for a beer and a bite to eat and find yourself in the jaws of a machine – and it’s not always an unpleasant experience. These are hospitality operations run with total efficiency. At first, you might think, ugh, this is all a bit charmless. Not very organic. Not very artisanal or […]
And here are the footnotes exclusively for Patreon supporters -- background commentary, bonus links, and notes on what inspired the title of this week's post.
Hello, hello! We're a couple of hours ahead of the UK so here, very early indeed, is our regular weekly round up of writing about beer and pubs. 🍻🍺
https://boakandbailey.com/2025/04/news-nuggets-and-longreads-26-april-2025-alley-of-cosmonauts/
Every week we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Breton pubs, pub grub, and sparklers. First, some news. At The Drinks Business Jessica Mason reports on statistics about the apparent decline of the German beer industry: Shocking new figures from the Statistisches Bundesamt office have revealed […]
Here's our contribution to Session #146 hosted by Ding, on the subject of value in beer. 🍺🍻
https://boakandbailey.com/2025/04/session-146-now-thats-great-value/
Good value in beer is easy to define: it’s when you get more than you expect for the price you pay. Like perfect pints of Butcombe Bitter for £3. This is our contribution to edition #146 of the (revived) Session which is being hosted by Ding at Ding’s Beer Blog. Each month, a different beer […]
