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Boak and Bailey, Brew Britannia: final thoughts

21 October, 2014 – 10:02 pm

After all that, what do I think? Would I recommend you get this book? In two words, Hell, yes! (Other expletives are available, but you get the idea.) Absolutely definitely. Get it now. I haven’t got a huge beer book library – before I acquired this book it consisted mainly of Amber, Gold and Black […]

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Boak and Bailey, Brew Britannia: critical thoughts

20 October, 2014 – 4:44 pm

My Brew Britannia review, part 3 of 4: the critical part. As you can probably see from the previous post on this topic, most of my doubts about the book had to do with history. Put simply, I had trouble with the overall shape of the story B&B tell – it’s not the shape that […]

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Boak and Bailey, Brew Britannia: second thoughts

12 October, 2014 – 3:54 pm

Although I liked Brew Britannia a lot, it wasn’t long before I started noticing – and noting down – things which, I felt, the authors had got wrong. I hasten to add that I’m not talking about factual errors, or anything that could be added to their scrupulous Errata. There’s ‘wrong’ as in ‘you spelt […]

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Boak and Bailey, Brew Britannia: first thoughts

18 September, 2014 – 11:22 pm

This isn’t a review of Brew Britannia by Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey (a copy of which the publishers sent me to review). At least, this isn’t the whole review; this is just what I think is special about the book, and – for what it’s worth – what I think is unusual about the […]

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Uncool

4 March, 2015 – 11:12 pm

In comments over at Ron’s, John Clarke raises an interesting point: The usual narrative is that US soldiers stationed in the UK during the war found our beer “warm” because they compared it to what they were used to back home. However given that many of them would be stationed in the country and visited […]

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Golden wossnames

9 January, 2015 – 12:18 am

I can’t really be bothered doing a full-on Golden Pints for 2014, not least because I’ve no idea what I’d put in most of the categories. (Best bottled beer? I did have a Rochefort 10 over Christmas, but was it my peak bottled beer experience? Set and setting…) Anyway, here are some random thoughts about […]

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To you it may be taboo

12 October, 2014 – 10:40 pm

I’m afraid I won’t be going to the Independent Manchester Beer Convention. Or rather, I didn’t go (it was this weekend). Having missed the first one last yearthe first two (h/t Tyson in comments – time flies eh?), I wrote off this year’s IMBC when ‘sold out’ messages started appearing, several months in advance of […]

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Bitter

3 August, 2010 – 9:37 pm

Abbeydale Absolution Pale, hoppy, yellow, big and strong. A definite alcoholic kick in the flavour, where a lot of beers of this style turn sour. Interesting. BigAmy Bigamy? Big Amy? Don’t ask me. Bright yellow in colour; a hard hoppy bitterness that hits you straight away, with a yeasty body and a slight but definite […]