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...

Better start now. Might be as long as the Macy's parade.

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.

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...

When did the cracks start to show at Rogue Ales? Production began to decline in 2015, but really accelerated the last three years. appellationbeer.com/blog/rogue-a...

It’s that time of the year when Canadian and US holidays get most muddled up. Late Thanksgiving? No Boxing Day?? Me, I blame having an elected Senate system personally. Welcome to…

GOOD MORNING! Here's our latest round up of news, nuggets and longreads, with important brewery closures, Belgian bars, green hop beers, and lots of other stuff an' all. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/11/news...

Back when the craft beer boom started, we purists would cringe when BudMillerCoors types would refer to it as "liquid." I guess they won. Untappd now allows users to check in wine, spirits and, yup, water. untappd.com/blog/4-6-1-u...?

Why I am left wondering if the attack on those who play cornhole has gone too far. abetterbeerblog427.com/2025/11/13/t...

Go for the photos, stay for the words. (Or vice versa -- I don't mean to be pushy.) www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...

Denver doubleheader. Hogshead Brewery’s Barge’s Mild on cask. On to Hops and Pie for Russian River Blind Pig (and garlic laden pizza).

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...

Recent studies? Please pass the grain of salt.

Brew Like A Monk.

Jay Brooks taking a hose shot of the day shot of the day:

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...

This is as close to a feel-good story you're going to get about the beer business

"Changing themes with wanton abandon." Just another Thursday with Alan McLeod.

A THC drink before a colonoscopy could change the way we think about colonoscopies.

Bon Appetite has a big THC package out this week and I’m thrilled to contribute two drinks pieces! First up: What are weed drinks doing to change the perception of THC socially? www.bonappetit.com/story/the-fu...

Anarchic creativity. Anarchic creativity. Anarchic creativity. (Put it to music and you have an ear worm)

GOOD MORNING! Here's this week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with the surprise reappearance of the Randall among many other things. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...

As always, much to contemplate here. Including authenticity, and where to draw the line.

Today I met with @briangibsontub.bsky.social to discuss some exciting data from our TU/VLB Berlin research project. Early results suggest that bottle conditioning could improve the chemical stability of dry-hopped beers. Watch this space. #brewingscience 🍻

I understand the appeal and importance of a volume account for large craft breweries. I really do. But Costco is not where you want to try to sell your fresh hop hazy IPA. It's late in the day on October 20th and I'm seeing cases upon cases of a Seattle brand sitting warm on shelves.

Cool stuff.

One of 3 No Kings protests in Golden, CO! #nokings

No Kings, Golden, Colorado. Windy day, spotted Aunt Tifa, but no paid protestors.

I've come to the conclusion that beer in Poland is ten years behind everywhere else, in the best possible way. This festival is full of randalls and young people.

GOOD MORNING! It's Saturday which means it's time for news, nuggets and longreads, this week with an accidental focus unremarkable pubs and places and how they can still be magical. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...

October Hop Queries had landed. (Subscribers already know this) hopqueries.com/9-06-thora-n...

Great call. vinepair.com/articles/202...

My takeaway this week: What is history? And why is the hunt for information becoming more difficult? abetterbeerblog427.com/2025/10/16/t...

"Nobody explains how an electric guitar works before a concert." Plenty of lessons in here for brewers (and quite relevant for hop farmers). (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/d...

Nice excerpt from my new book, American Whiskey Master Class, in Men's Journal! www.mensjournal.com/drink/what-d...

This week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads is now up, with all sorts of great stuff, including several responses to one of our own posts from earlier in the week. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...

A gem well within: "Is/was 'passion' an 'important asset' or a form of those 'blinders'? Whether in business or in writing. Maybe both. What ever happened to well-earned hard-bitten steely-eyed objectivity?" A lot of words to get there, but worth your time abetterbeerblog427.com/2025/10/09/t...

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.