Here are a few things we’ve spotted around the blogoshire and beyond for you to enjoy with your hangover.
→ There’s a real sense of place evoked through small details in this piece on a Sam Smith’s pub in Cardiff from Craig Heap, and it made us want to drink their beer.
→ Is it time for breweries to indicate a recommend retail price for their beer?
It frustrates me a lot that a beer that leaves here at £2.60 a (750ml) bottle is in a bar about 20 miles away being sold at £15 #greedy
— The Wild Beer Co (@WildBeerCo) April 17, 2014
→ Old wooden brewery crates are practical and attractive, but they go at a premium on Ebay, but Bob Arnott has a solution.
→ Saved to Pocket this week: a piece on the new Oregon Hops & Brewing archive at Oregon State University. (Via @brewingarchives)
→ We wrote a not entirely serious piece explaining why you should order a copy of Brew Britannia. (If you don’t like Amazon or Waterstones, you could ask your local independent bookshop to get a copy on order.)
→ We’re fascinated by the question of whether ‘golden ale’ is really a 1980s invention so this example of a notably pale beer with the brand name Golden Ale from the 1930s has us intrigued.
→ Here’s a piece we were asked to write for the Guardian’s Comment is Free blog section, on big brewery mergers. (Annoyingly, we got the brewery number statistic wrong – we’ve asked for it to be corrected.)
2 replies on “News, Nuggets and Longreads 19/04/2014”
If they put a recommended price on the label, some brewers would have to deal with how high they recommend as a price.
Not for the on-trade, no. A bar doesn’t sell you beer, they sell a whole service, and pricing is perhaps the most effective tool to get the sort of clientèle they want to have.
What the The Wild Beer Co. could do is, either reach a verbal agreement with the bar owner or stop selling to them. Very simple.