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Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog

Beer blogging since 2007, covering real ale, craft beer, pubs and British beer history.

Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog

Guides and Lists

The following are permanent pages rather than blog posts.

They’re items we don’t want to get lost in the churn of daily updates and which we keep updated.

  • Our favourite blog posts.
  • Pubs on film.
  • When we say ‘craft beer’ we mean…
  • Our guide to buying beer in the supermarket.
  • A collection of ‘long reads’.

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We’re Boak and Bailey

We’re geeks in general, but especially about beer and pubs. We write under the names Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey. We live in Bristol in the UK. We’ve been blogging about beer since 2007.

Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @boakandbailey

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Featured Posts

The First Ten Years
A personal selection of twelve of favourite posts from our first decade of blogging.


Marks & Gran: Holding the Fort.
The sitcom writers tell us about their first show in which Peter Davison played a microbrewer.


A Brighter Boggleton!
The Pubs of Boggleton, 1837-2017 — a pocket history of the English pub inspired by John Betjeman.


Alice in Wonderland: DRINK ME.
We’re tasting a series of beers recommended by others in 2016.


Good News vs. Bad News.
New for 2017: a register of good news and bad in the world of British beer.

Books

The cover of Brew Britannia
A new edition of Brew Britannia: the strange rebirth of British beer is out in July 2017, with corrections and a new format. We reckon it’s pretty bloody good, but don’t take our word for it. Buy Brew Britannia at Amazon UK | Amazon US | Stanfords | or at your local bookshop.


Telling the story of the rise and fall of German lager beer in Victorian and Edwardian London, Gambrinus Waltz is available for Kindle at Amazon UK | Amazon US (It’s “excellent” says Martyn Cornell.)

Back of a Beer Mat -- free e-book
All the best longreads from the blog and exclusive material, available as a FREE e-book via Smashwords.

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Permanent Pages

  • Contacts and About
    • Blogging etiquette
    • How we use Twitter
    • Magazines and Books Wanted
  • Guides and Lists
    • A Virtual Beer Library
    • Bookmark These Blog Posts
    • Christmas Gifts for Beer Lovers
    • Generic Beer Infographic
    • How to Be a Beer Geek
    • Long Reads
    • Pubs on Film
    • Register of Good News/Bad News
    • Supermarket beer guide
    • Ten Years of Blogging: Our Favourite Posts
    • When we say ‘craft beer’ we mean…
  • Our Books
    • About Brew Britannia
    • BB: Outstanding Questions
    • Brew Britannia: Errata
  • Samples and PR
    • Disclosure: Stuff We Got Free or Were Paid For
    • FAQ for PR people

Latest comments

  • Down with the kids « Oh Good Ale on The Young Ones
  • Jan Rogers on News, Nuggets & Longreads 22 July 2017: Quality, Icebergs, Cheesecloth
  • Nick Roberts on QUICK ONE: Overlooked
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  • Professor Pie-Tin on Pub Perfume
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Blog Roll

We try to keep this populated with links to active blogs that we generally enjoy reading. Last updated 27/06/2017.

Beer bloggers

  • A Good Beer Blog
  • Barm's Beer Blog
  • Beer Compurgation
  • Beer Leeds (Richard Coldwell)
  • Beer Talk
  • Beers I've Known
  • Beers Manchester
  • Beervana (Jeff Alworth)
  • Belgian Smaak
  • Bob Arnott (More Hops)
  • Brew Geekery (P.J. McKerry)
  • Brewing East (Rebecca Pate)
  • Brewvana
  • Crema's Beer Odyssey
  • Ed's Beer Blog
  • Gary Gillman
  • Hopzine
  • Intoxicated
  • Knut Albert
  • Literature & Libation
  • Look at Brew (Rachel)
  • Lucy Corne (Brewmistress)
  • Midlands Beer Blog Collective
  • Mostly About Beer (Alec Latham)
  • My World of Beer
  • Oh Good Ale
  • Paul Bailey's Beer Blog
  • Pivni Filosof
  • Rabid Bar Fly
  • Red Nev
  • Retired Martin
  • Ron Pattinson (Barclay Perkins)
  • St John's Wort (Jordan)
  • Tandleman
  • The Beer Cast
  • The Beer Diary (Chris Hall)
  • The Beer Nut
  • The Fatal Glass (Joe Tindall)
  • The Ormskirk Baron
  • Total Ales
  • Tyson's Beer Blog
  • Velky Al (Fuggled)
  • Wee Beefy
  • Zak Avery
  • Zythophile (Martyn Cornell)

Brewers and boozers

  • Hardknott Dave
  • Magic Rock

Not just beer

  • Beer Shots (pro photography)
  • Bier & Trein
  • Booze, Beats, Bites
  • Lars Marius Garshol
  • Mr David J
  • Randomness Guide
  • The Pub Curmudgeon
  • When My Feet Go Through the Door

Pro Beer Writers

  • Adrian Tierney-Jones
  • Beer Culture (Des De Moor)
  • Beer Today (Darren)
  • Good Beer Hunting
  • I Think About Beer
  • Orwell's Beer Blog
  • Pete Brown
  • Sophie Atherton
  • Stan Hieronymus
  • Stephen Beaumont
  • Thirsty Pilgrim

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