Another great Sox v Yanks baseball game last evening - but with another outcome compared to game #1. It’s all getting settled tonight. Does anything else matter? Beer gossip? Pfft. Stats and graphs? Not so much. Legal news about the brewing trade? How can it compare? Well, check it out and see…

Take a deep breath. Didn't work, still true. newschoolbeer.com/home/2025/9/...

GOOD MORNING! Pubs are struggling. The 2026 Good Beer Guide is "a triumph". Craft beer is still growing in India. Gen Z really isn't drinking. BrewDog beers have lost their edge. Nobody really knows which is the oldest pub in London. New Boddies is "drinkable". 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/09/news...

Plenty of hot news in the weekly update. Scorching might actually be the word. Not steaming, however. Too close to steamy. Nope. Look elsewhere for that. Definitely.

Do not wait. Aspen are hitting peak Aspen along the Peak to Peak Biway.

Hop Queries 9.05 has been dispatched. If you are a subscriber and you don't see it, check you spam folder. It ran a little long. If you aren't a subscriber, find it archived here: hopqueries.com/9-05-transit...

At my local beer store, they break apart 4-packs and 6-packs to create mixed packs, which is terrific because there are scores of Colorado (and other US) festbiers and marzens to choose from. Little German beyond the usual suspects.

GOOD MORNING! This week's round up has zombie brands, dead pubs, cask beer in Italy, and more. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/09/news...

Chimps, ethanol & figs. You buried the lead, Alan, but I do appreciate the research. abetterbeerblog427.com/2025/09/18/t...

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round up of good writing about beer and pubs, with lots of beer history, as well as commentary on clickbait trends, and the week's big news story. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/09/news...

You show up for the weekly beer news but did you know about True Black Brandywine? Hmm… just as I expected. Time for a little “TNT!” - and the rest of “The Delightful Yet Pensively Penultimate Beery News Notes On A Summer’s Thursday For 2025”:

Currently drinking: Future Primitive Nazi Punks Fuck Off! Would drink again And again. And again.

Shredding Citra. Chris Baum (Varietal Beer) and Kevin Watson (Future Primitive) shredding fresh Citra before it heads to the kettle. A little lupulin gets left behind.

Plenty of news this week, plenty of challenges facing the brewing trade but also plenty… well some… fine, a few rays of sunshine… maybe… well, whatever they are here they are!

When @stanhieronymus.bsky.social tells you to go to a brewery and try the Kölsch, you must obey. So here I am at Fritz Family Brewing in Niwot, Colorado.

Some exciting new research is happening as I write this, and will examine why fresh hops taste different than dried ones. Four breweries are participating, and Oregon State University will be analyzing them. Here are the details.

Spoiler alert: "Pubs are about humans, organic connections, and personality. "AI is… not that." boakandbailey.com/2025/09/when...

The often-mentioned first "modern Helles" by Spaten was a weird beer. Original gravity 11.7°P, just 2.69% ABW (about 3.4% ABV), and a real attenuation of just 45.7%. And it was not super popular, either: from 1895 until WW1, it accounted for only about 10% of Spaten's beer sales. #beerhistory

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with quite a bit of in-the-weeds geeky stuff about science, scoring and brewery financing. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/08/news...

We've lost another carrier of the brewing tradition: Svein Rivenes from Voss died yesterday, at the age of 85. He's best known for being the owner of kveik #2. Martin Thibault and I had his vossaøl back in 2014 and were absolutely blown away. It was really fantastic.

Some thoughts on research into beer by non-brewing scientists: edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/08/im-f...

Way too many words to qualify as a vacation post.

"Leaving me feel baited and switched in my continuing quest for sour IPA." We've all been there, right?

I often wonder - does anyone read this stuff? Well, according to one landlord who messaged me elsewhere, 16 people cited the Telegraph Magazine for their reason to visit his pub yesterday. I’m v pleased about that.

We need competitions around UK-hopped lagers, whether from eg Farams, or part of Champion Beer of Britain or however. It may seem a bit of a leap for CAMRA, but plight of UK hop growers is an existential threat to trad cask beer and growing hops for lager is one way to preserve trad cask.

GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with notes on soggy pub tables, Franconian river jousting, and the wider world of Czech hop varieties. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/08/news...

Which state will harvest more hops in 2025, Idaho or Oregon? appellationbeer.com/blog/what-do...

Where's Pete's Wicked Ale? Should it scare me that I had the same thought?

The biggest beer festival in the Atlantic North-West, #Hagstravaganza, was on the Saturday before last. Here's how it went for me: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/08/wicc...

GOOD MORNING! This week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads is a bit unusual as it has two posts from one blogger, and three posts on the same subject. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/08/news...

Today, some innermost thoughts in these “Your Beery News Notes For A Thursday When The Deep Dark Recesses Get Examined”…

Hop harvest begins soon in the American Northwest, and there's a new cultivar in town. “I’ve chatted casually with some brewers and ‘tiki drinks’ (think painkiller) seems to a common descriptor.” hopqueries.com/hbc-1019-dol...

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round up of the best writing about beer and pubs. Lots of good stuff this week so the Patreon-exclusive 'footnotes' post is going to have about the same amount of links again. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/08/news...

Does the GABF have the same problems as the GBBF (the festival that inspired it)?

Today's sentence that I will not forget about: "A tradition of amnesia."

"Reading this vast tome of 477 pages I felt I had borrowed a time machine and gone back to London at the start of the 18th century." protzonbeer.co.uk/reviews/2025...

Wow. Atlas has brewed their beer for a while now, but they opened in downtown DC in 1992 and brewed on site. The first. RIP.

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round up of good writing about beer and pubs. Hopefully lots to think about and maybe even argue with (in a sensible way) this morning. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/08/news...

Summer in the city. Jamming at Fifth Hammer Brewing in Long Island City.

In case you woke up this morning wondering if green is the new beige.

Pawpaws are such a cool fruit. Their rapid spoilage prevents commercial viability, keeping them the domain of foragers & small growers. Some Ohio breweries brew with them as well, & I wrote an article for Edible Ohio Valley about pawpaw beers: mydigitalpublication.com/publication/...

The ‘real’ drinking pubs serving £5 pints and no fancy food – and thriving www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1037610...

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round up of good writing about beer and pubs. It's got the usual mix of news, industry commentary, and stuff that will make you want to go and book travel tickets *immediately*. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/07/news...

Catching up. abetterbeerblog427.com/2025/07/24/y...

Reposting in awe

Heard yesterday from a pal that lives in Pilsen that the Kout na Šumavě brewery is reopening. Marvellous news if true

It is interesting to look at these cultural differences through the lens of beer/drinks

GOOD MORNING! Here's this week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with an exciting update from Manchester, and notes on the Rheinheitsgebot, among many other things. 🍻🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/07/news...

Thinking about a recipe recreation to celebrate some women in brewing. Alex is Alexandra Farnham, who worked at McMenamins in 1986 and is the second woman to call herself a brewer in Oregon. {{The first was Marie Kienlen in 1904.}} Get excited for our September History Off The Clock!

When you read this (set aside some time), consider that Green Bench recently released a beer called Reaching For Tomorrow. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/7/...