Alternate History
Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Writing about beer and pubs since 2007 Last night, we got a bit counter-factual and asked ourselves this: if the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) had never appeared on the...
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Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Writing about beer and pubs since 2007 The chart above shows membership numbers for the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA, from 1971), the Society for the Preservation of...
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Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Writing about beer and pubs since 2007 We only have two sources of information on the National Society for the Promotion of Pure Beer (NSPPB, according to their official...
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Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Writing about beer and pubs since 2007 A Tetley sign in Sheffield, just because, OK? There are a few things going on around the Blogoshire and in the real world that we...
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Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Writing about beer and pubs since 2007 The opening chapter of our book concerns the Society for the Preservation of Beers From the Wood, and one of the first things we...
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Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Writing about beer and pubs since 2007 One of the fun things about working on Brew Britannia was thinking aloud on the blog as we conducted our research. We wrote quite...
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Stan Hieronymus is hosting Session #118 this month and he has asked: ‘If you could invite four people dead or alive to a beer dinner who would they be? What four beers would you serve?’ Chatting this...
View ArticleAlternate History
Last night, we got a bit counter-factual and asked ourselves this: if the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) had never appeared on the scene, where would British beer be now? Maybe, without CAMRA, we’d have...
View ArticleHow to grow a beer consumer group
The chart above shows membership numbers for the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA, from 1971), the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood (SPBW, from 1963) and the Campaign for Really Good...
View ArticleThe National Society for the Promotion of Pure Beer
We only have two sources of information on the National Society for the Promotion of Pure Beer (NSPPB, according to their official crest): a 1961 Daily Mirror article (18 December, p.5) and various...
View ArticleIn Other News
A Tetley sign in Sheffield, just because, OK? There are a few things going on around the Blogoshire and in the real world that we wanted to highlight. In our last post, we wondered whether it was time...
View ArticleReturn of the Wood
The opening chapter of our book concerns the Society for the Preservation of Beers From the Wood, and one of the first things we learned about the SPBW is that, since the late sixties, they’ve...
View ArticleArchive Round-up: CAMRA and Real Ale
One of the fun things about working on Brew Britannia was thinking aloud on the blog as we conducted our research. We wrote quite a few posts about the pre-Campaign for Real Ale era and the early years...
View ArticleTwo Englishmen, an Irishman and a Bavarian Go to a Dinner Party…
Stan Hieronymus is hosting Session #118 this month and he has asked: ‘If you could invite four people dead or alive to a beer dinner who would they be? What four beers would you serve?’ Chatting this...
View ArticleAlternate History
Last night, we got a bit counter-factual and asked ourselves this: if the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) had never appeared on the scene, where would British beer be now? Maybe, without CAMRA, we’d have...
View ArticleHow to grow a beer consumer group
The chart above shows membership numbers for the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA, from 1971), the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood (SPBW, from 1963) and the Campaign for Really Good...
View ArticleThe National Society for the Promotion of Pure Beer
We only have two sources of information on the National Society for the Promotion of Pure Beer (NSPPB, according to their official crest): a 1961 Daily Mirror article (18 December, p.5) and various...
View ArticleIn Other News
A Tetley sign in Sheffield, just because, OK? There are a few things going on around the Blogoshire and in the real world that we wanted to highlight. In our last post, we wondered whether it was time...
View ArticleReturn of the Wood
The opening chapter of our book concerns the Society for the Preservation of Beers From the Wood, and one of the first things we learned about the SPBW is that, since the late sixties, they’ve...
View ArticleArchive Round-up: CAMRA and Real Ale
One of the fun things about working on Brew Britannia was thinking aloud on the blog as we conducted our research. We wrote quite a few posts about the pre-Campaign for Real Ale era and the early years...
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