Boak & Bailey's Beer BlogWe heard this song by Dave Bartholomew on a compilation of blues and R&B songs about booze that Bailey’s Dad was listening to over the weekend. It’s a sad tale of a bloke who goes (we think) to the bog and, when he comes back, finds that someone has finished his pint:
Who drank my beer while I was in the rear?
Who drank my beer while I was in the rear?
Point out that low-down moocher —
I’ll dislocate his future!
→ Neil McDonald of Home Brew Answers suggests a recipe for ‘session stout’ which sounds like it ought to be ‘a thing’:
A full bodied lower ABV session beer? Balancing a beer like this can be a tricky thing, retaining the body in a beer is harder when you are putting less malt in but with a few simple tweaks and a little bit of thought about the recipe itself it is not all that difficult.
→ For the British Library Labs project Dr Katrina Navickas has put together a pub-heavy walking tour of Chartist London.
→ Ed has been digging in the Journal of the Institute of Brewing again and came across a marvellous 1905 paper on ‘The Popular Type of Beer’ which includes a complaint about poor quality bottled beer, the result of a…
“short sighted and stupid policy to rest content with, or even to tolerate a characterless product which is not only far inferior to a naturally matured bottled beer, but in the majority of cases not even a credit to the present development of the non-deposit system”.
“Nono — Kirin ragaa-biiru, kudasai!”
A really boring Indiana Jones film or a less gloomy sequel to Blade Runner, perhaps?
(Via Open Culture.)
We’re very grateful to Steve AKA @untilnextyear for pointing this clip out to us. Do any of you CAMRA veterans recognise the participants, or perhaps even yourself? The hipster in the Washington University top wouldn’t look out of place at a craft beer festival in 2015.
PS. Our long article about Covent Garden ’75 features in the current edition of CAMRA’s BEER magazine which is technically only available to members but is probably also knocking about a shelf in your local real ale pub.
For the Irish Craft Beer Show John ‘The Beer Nut’ Duffy gives a guided tour of key sites in Dublin’s brewing history.