Prost @akrennmair.bsky.social and @johnzee7.bsky.social! Was this the one you brewed together, or the old ale? Absolutely süffig malt bomb. I like the bitter malt highlights.

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

Good morning from the Brauerei Spezial in Bamberg. Pro tip: if you order a "gewärmtes", your beer will be gently heated with an immersion heater, which knocks out some of the carbonation.

GOOD MORNING! Here's our weekly round up of good writing about beer, with pubs in Norwich and Bradford, thoughts on the budget, and notes on a kitsch advertisement for Hamm's beer. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/11/news...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

J.C. Jocobsen writes again. And mentions union sets. barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2025/11/jc-j...

I'm usually not much of a wine person, but I had some phenomenal Georgian wine today: the most tannic orange/amber wine I ever had (Kisi Danieli Qvevri), which paired perfectly with khachapuri adjaruli, followed by a fruity, dry red Saperavi Qvevri with a slight hint of funk that just elevated it.

More Carlsberg correspondence. Including a description of 20-year old London Porter. barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...

Baked a German rye bread (70/30 rye/wheat flour) today, all sourdough. It turned out okay.

First snow of the season in Berlin.

RIP Udo Kier, a true original 📽️ his one and only social media post:

It's Stir-Up Sunday, so time for our annual boost for this post, designed to help out anxious home cooks trying to track down barley wine. boakandbailey.com/2015/11/publ...

The paper Margo Samorokov and I wrote for Brewery History Journal on Estonian farmhouse brewing is now available online, in case anyone is interested. www.breweryhistory.com/journal/arch...

One of the hardly ever discussed elements of German pub culture is the "Hausmarke" (lit. "house brand"): pubs get surplus kegs of lager for a lower price, but in turn, they can't say which beer it is. It's always a surprise to order it, sometimes it's just okay, sometimes it's excellent like today.

A Mac by the open fire - a grand day for it ...

A Victorian Mild recipe from Kent - 1884 W.E. & J. Rigden Mild Beer. barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2025/11/lets...

Pitching a horror story in which an England cricket fan goes to sleep while England are winning and wakes up to find out they... didn't stack it and won the test. Said fan immediately knows something is very, very wrong with reality... I know nothing about cricket btw

GOOD MORNING! Here's this morning's round up of good writing about beer and pubs from the past week, with a common thread about *doing it right*. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/11/news...

Boatwald Boatfaceson www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This video does a good job of explaining why some films feel *solid* and others only like vague, unstable impressions of reality. (Although I'm baffled by his use of an Avatar film as an example of getting it right.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP...

My life is one big decoction mash - online now (behind a paywall though) www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-dri...

Just discovered it ought to be pretty simple to do a walk out of Bamberg that takes in three breweries all named Wagner in one day.

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It's not an addiction, I swear. I bought a bag of freshly baked tandoori bread from a local Arab bakery this time.

Sad to see Epochal go. It was doing some exciting stuff. Hopefully, its Burton Union set won't be collateral damage, and I'm sure Gareth will do his best to find it a new home. Thanks to @morrighani.bsky.social for keeping tabs for @teamdb.bsky.social www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/11/wher...

Yesterday's dinner: nohut dürüm. Chickpeas pan-fried with spices (cumin and chili powder) and wrapped in a thin flatbread with a simple salad of parsley, red onions, lemon juice and sumac. Absolutely delicious, and so incredibly easy to make.

At this point we'd walked for hours and seen no sign of life, except rats gnawing on what might have been a human hand, and a makeshift gyrocopter circling high above. The Roamers rarely come out during the day, after all – or, at least, know how to ensure they're not seen.

A New Thing for fans of the union fermentation system. Link to this FB post - www.facebook.com/laurahadland...

Resolved a 'glitch in the matrix thing, only a year late! Last year, I was running on the canal footpath and a very tall, distinctive young woman was running the other way. She had a running top that I'd especially liked, & my brain fried when I saw her coming toward me again, 2 min later...

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

Industriebier, Blindproben. Die Eine (frisch), Diacetyl, die Andere (Alt) Oxidation. Da weiss man dann auch warum einige Brauereien pleite gehen. Kann man sich nämlich die ganze Filtration, Stabilisierung und Personal sparen. Vermute mal Management Qualität komplett egal. Daily WTF-Momente!

I hadn't baked a sourdough loaf in a while. This one that I baked today came out quite alright.

At Augustiner am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin with @akrennmair.bsky.social, @louisekrennmair.bsky.social and @johnzee7.bsky.social. Very strange to be with beer people again 😜

Only idiot demons show their faces so obviously, with growling, puking and levitation, and so bring the exorcists down upon themselves. The sly ones take possession early, lie low, and ruin lives in a thousand ways, behind closed doors, over the course of decades.

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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest news, nuggets and longreads, with notes on pub etiquette, the evolution of lager yeast, antique beers in deep snow, and a bunch of other stuff, too. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/11/news...

The wait is over! The shortlist for the British Guild of Beer Writers Awards is out now. Follow the link to see the full list and celebrate this year’s talented finalists! 🍻✨ www.beerguild.co.uk/2025-awards-...

The quintessential aesthetic of fascism

At Prague Airport (Terminal 2), happy to see you can buy cans of beer from small breweries like Zichovec and Únětice, in addition to giant makers like Pilsner Urquell. Tomorrow, someone on the other side of the Atlantic is going to try a great Czech pale lager for the first time.

Are there any labs, maybe in the UK or elsewhere, performing residue analysis for carrageenan in brewing samples? #brewingscience

Not living in, being from, or even never having been to Chicago is not an excuse

this video is both hilarious and disturbing and well worth an hour of your time

In a move that critics are calling ‘ill-advised’ I’ve made a mini video documentary to accompany this post, featuring sexy drone footage and less sexy Martin footage. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPF...

Our first attempt at wine making. Two days between them for the first fermentation, but we know we won't have time to do the other Monday. Quite a gravity drop difference, but both not vinegar, so that's a positive. It tasted rather nice already actually! And now we wait until bottling!

I recently discovered oblique imagery of Berlin dated 1954, including my neighbourhood. In one of the photos, a half-torn-down wall can be seen on one building. The funny thing is, I took a picture of the same building just last June, and the wall is still in the same state as 71 years ago.

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, with notes on the Polish beer scene, pub names, Norwegian funeral beer, discounted BrewDog, the US beer market, and witches. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/11/news...