The main event was a whisky tasting at marvellous Spirited. An excellent time with excellent people 👌🏻🥃🎂🧡

Got to South Bris earlier than expected yesterday so stopped off at Lupe for a delicious Marble (half) Pint 🍻

Congratulations to the amazing Dr Pam @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social on the publication of her book, which we celebrated yesterday. This is the Think While You Drink team (Bob, Pam, Sam, me!), and yes we ARE plotting more TWYD - watch this space! @drinkingstudies.bsky.social

She Drinks Beer at The Good Measure was fun last night - some regulars, some newbies, a potential new brewer for Bristol! We talked about that other big male-dominated arena - record collecting and djing - as well as more on the supreme court ruling on transgender people. A good evening 💛🍻🙌🏻

Tonight - She Drinks Beer at The Good Measure in Redland💛 Our regular night at the pub for women who enjoy beer. Some tasty drops on tonight, from the likes of Abbeydale, Arbor, Tiley's, Ideal Day, LHG, DEYA, delish! 🍻

I have new followers thanks to some re-posting by the lovely Boak & Bailey (thanks chaps), so time for a bit of self-promo 😊 Tomorrow is She Drinks Beer at our pub The Good Measure (BS6 6PE). If you're a woman* and enjoy beer, pubs, brewing or disrupting traditionally male pub spaces come along... 🍻

There she is, at The Kings Head.

Being doing a lot up at The Good Measure recently, including changing up the furniture and doing some work on the garden. Last minute bit of outdoor wood staining today (too wet last week, too hot earlier this week!), then we're ready for you! Come for a pint later, pub opens at 2pm 🍻☀️🎉

Boak & Bailey obv 👌🏻

Good afternoon. Weather's crap so, as always, this round-up is best enjoyed in the pub 🍻

Pretty pleased with how my roses are looking so far this year 💛

Boak & Bailey for a sunny Saturday - best read in the pub innit 🍻

1st May was good: Saw my first elderflower, it smelled lovely Replaced the first of four panes of double glazing Saw three great noisy bands Had a late night the Friday before Brewery Trail, cos I don't have to do it any more! Yes, bit weird but v good

Good May Bank Holiday Saturday morning. My first is ten years not running East Bristol Brewery Trail through choice (2yrs off for covid obv). Bit weird. Keeping things on an even keel though, here's B&B's round-up, excellent as usual 👌🏻

Burncoose nursery on Gardeners World! Really near where my Dad grew up (Ponsanooth, funnily enough where Verdant started their brewery), we'd drive past it all the time on the way to Porth Towan beach 🥰 Talking about his anemones going to Chelsea 🙌🏻

It's B&B innit. Essential reading if you like beer, brewing, pubs and all that. As always - best read in your local (probably later, though) 🍻

Is Have I Got News For You always a fix?! How didnt Ian Hislop win this week when PM didn't get the odd one out?! Starting not to trust it 😆

The Drapers. Cheese not pictured. Cheers 🍻

Managed to dodge the rain just about to get a walk in to The Hillgr for a DB stout and Arbor pale. Good to hear it's not been a bad start to the year, too 🍻

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round-up of news, nuggets and longreads, with everything from industry gossip to a very weighty piece about farmhouse yeast genetics. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2026/04/news...

A Gloucester Road story in 3 parts: Ghost sign at top of our road (@boakandbailey.bsky.social thought you might like to see it before it gets covered by what looks like an ENORMOUS new sign... 🙄) Delicious Bris Beer Factory Milk Stout at The Drapers (no photo of that, sorry!) Jinzu sushi - lush! 🍻

I am hosting an #English whisky tasting, exploring six different distilleries and cask types along the way in #Clevedon on Tuesday 21st April 2026. It’s £25 and I guarantee* fun. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-wh...

Belated Boak & Bailey, best read in the pub 🍻

This is interesting 😊 The 'couple of drinks' mentioned was a brilliant Think While You Drink that Beer Nouveau was part of, talking alcohol in prehistory and more recently. After filming this Steve joined us to drink wooden cask porter at The Drapers - great few days! 🍻

Boak & Bailey for a sunny Saturday afternoon (in the pub, perhaps... 🍻)

Kings Head. Small cask on the bar. “It’s one of Vince's. He says it's brown.” “A pint and a half of Vince, then.” (Vince, late of The Drapers Arms, runs Ashley Down Brewery.)

Got locked out of my bluesky 🙄 So this is a repost from a while ago (expect more, nothing like my up-to-the-minute discourse to keep you entertained...!), but no less absolutely fascinating of course 🍻

This is great, if you like Bristol, and history, and wandering, and being off the beaten track, and good writing 👍🏻

Support your local pub. Oh alright then 🍻

Fancied a beer at The Drapers but Bob had major surgery recently (ok, he had a tooth out on Mon!) so is still not boozing. I expect we'll go tomorrow. Are you at the pub tonight? What you drinking? 🍻

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑🥃 BURNS NIGHT 👑🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃 We're celebrating Burns Night across TWO WHOLE WEEKS this year! Starting from Mon 19th Jan - Sun 1st Feb Featuring over 19 different Scottish beers & a selection of Scotch Whiskey to pair with them all! We hope you can join us!

Pub innit. Cheers Vince 🍻 And Garvan, I suppose!

Happy New Year 🙌🏻

I'm one of the friends! Cheers 🍻Having a lovely time so far: we're visiting pubs we've not been to (or not for ages. My grandfather used to drink in The Mall around 30-40 years ago 😊).

And today, we have Plum Porter Reserve on the hand-pulls, so you can have both Cherry & Plum. Thank us later!

It's Titanic Brewery Cherry Porter; Grand Reserve time again!

🥰 @timharford.ft.com including The Princess Bride quotes in More or Less on Radio4 this morning is grand 🫡

Boak & Bailey. Lots of interesting (to me) stories, so if you don't normally click through try again this week. And if you head out to support your local this weekend, bear in mind your bartenders may be dealing with extra stresses, so be nice 🍻🎄

Boak & Bailey. If you're in Bristol a new brewery taproom, Unwin's, opens today. Torn betw wanting it to be a great opening for Tom and his family, and not wanting it to be mega-busy! But maybe see you there 🍻

See you at the pub later for celebrations of a different kind - 3 years since we opened the Kings Head 🎂🍻🥳🙌🏻😍💚

Cheers 🍻🎂

Did you know that I run writers' retreats for PGRs & academics? So if you are looking for a way to offer a quiet space to write in a healthy and productive format that breaks the isolation of writing, get in touch. I do one day and residentials. More info: writingwithpam.wordpress.com

The Fatherland.

B&B innit. Looking forward to reading the Australian sales rep's insights, those business-y stories are my jam. No comment on the actual gist of the story............. 😏

NOTHING IS BETTER....... 🍻

All ready (or at least, we will be by 6:30!) for @petebrownbeer.bsky.social to come and share his insight into beer & music for Think While You Drink. Can't wait to hear what Bris bands he might have picked 😉 Bit of Svalbard? Memory Of Elephants? Turbowolf? 🤘🏻🍻 @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

Really looking forward to this - it's been fully-booked for ages too! If you're on the list see you at Small Bar later. It's part of the amazing @beinghumanfest.bsky.social, take a look at what else is going on that's still got space 🍻

Yes, yes, Boak & Bailey's Saturday round-up. I've just caught up, however, on their previous post, which was fascinating, and the 1951 photograph is particularly wonderful: boakandbailey.com/2025/10/the-...

About last Thurs. We had our BIGGEST turnout for a Think While You Drink EVER, with *40* squeezed into The Robin Hood's upstairs room! Huge thanks to everyone who came, what a fascinating evening 🤩 Next up, this one is already fully booked! We'll let you know if we get any drop-outs. Great stuff 🙌🏻