Previously on Boak and Bailey’s Beer Blog

We’re having a couple of days off blogging because of annoying real life deadlines and commitments so, in the meantime, here are a few things you might have missed from the last month or two.

CAMRA et al

• How CAMRA got its name and the origins of the term ‘real ale’.
• When the meanings of ‘draught’, ‘keg’ and ‘cask’ were fixed by civil servants.
• Where CAMRA’s ‘living beer’ rhetoric came from.
• The Ancient Order of Froth Blowers and the Pub Users Preservation Society; the Real Ale Liberation Front; and the National Society for the Promotion of Pure Beer.
• A brief history of CAMRA bashing.

Places

• Pubs on the London underground.
• Ian Nairn on London pubs, 1966.
• Prague, 1958.
• European beer, 1634.

Beer and brewing

• Home brewing St Austell 1912 stout.
• Sharp’s Connoisseur’s Choice triple and quadrupel.
• What we thought of St Austell’s version of their own 1913 Original Stout.
• The Sainsbury’s Great British Beer Hunt.

Miscellaneous ponderingsand silliness

• Are CAMRA and Brewdog cults?
• What is a ‘pop’ beer?
• Are pub chains inevitable?
• An incomplete list of British lagers with silly fake German names.
• What we think about writer/blogger collaboration brews.

See you on the other side….