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 🙌🏻

THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME!!!!

A good date for an update. Cheers to me and @beernouveau.co.uk 🍻🥳🎂

Looking forward to heading to one of our fave Bris pubs tomorrow evening. Join us for a pint of great cask! 🍻

Our current local (yes we're v lucky). We've noticed it's been busy this summer (when it can not be). Which is jokily rather bloomin annoying when there's nowhere to sit 🙄, but as publicans ourselves, lovers of pubs & just people who want to see small local biz succeed is great to see - cheers 🍻

American-focused (obviously) but really interesting read about the last decade in beer and brewing 🍻

As interesting and useful as ever. Enjoy (perhaps with a pint in a pub) 🍻

Is this just going to be a Drapers blackboard account.... Well it's not like I do anything/go anywhere else...! Three GC beers, one crossed off, one just added, AND another on the 'coming soon' display elsewhere - cheers! ☺️🍻

It's our birthday party tomorrow. Big milestone. Hope you'll come and see us if you're in Bris. There's cake ☺️ 🍻🎂🍕🥳

Right. This one again 🤣 We just got home from another really great Think While You Drink (thanks @philmellows.bsky.social!) and I am so ready for bed! But what a flipping goal!!!

Got to write the Average Beer Miles at the bottom of The Drapers menu board this evening, after working it out sans calculator. My Dad helped with the fraction. We can neither confirm nor deny its accuracy 😆 Good to try Counter Culture in the wild too 🍻

Gah! I was ready for an early night - now the ladyball goes to extra time!! Come on Lionesses! 🍻

Excited for this on Tues. Our first two talks were fantastic, and this should be a lot of fun - Phil's book is great, packed with interesting places to visit and insightful beer and pubs commentary. Perfect for Think While You Drink! Still places, if you'd like to join us: thinkwhileyoudrink.co.uk

Boak & Bailey. They're not late, I am. I had a lovely day out in Bradford-On-Avon yest, so missed sharing. Spect you've all already seen it by now. But if not... PS BOA has some nice pubs and is very pretty 😌

If you’re in Bristol, hope to see you there!

@maristhotter.bsky.social Michael! Hello👋🏻 Dunno if you remember me but my partner Bob & I stayed at the Crow in '23 when we brewed at Abbeydale, & met you. Our pubs mngrs @bothsidesofthebar.bsky.social are staying on Thur for a day-&-night of Sheff pubbing, so I wanted to introduce you - cheers!🍻

Saturday means morning reading to see if anything takes my fancy to fully read later. Boak & Bailey - doing the good work! Cheers 🍻

Tomorrow!

Boak & Bailey innit. Stay hydrated, support your local pub this weekend 🍻

B&B's usual round-up, only this week with bonus B&B and GC - what a treat! To say we're delighted to have them joining us on Tue for Think While You Drink is an enormous understatement. If you're local, do join us. The second talk on the night is set to be fascinating too thinkwhileyoudrink.co.uk

Basically what Christina said! Come on down, beer fans/social history fans/women fans 🍻

Come for the Irish beer history, stay for the ghosts and demons. Can't wait to see some of you at 'Think While You Drink'! Make sure you sign up 🍻

Oh yeah, and this! (Ignore the Kokomo / Pure O mix-up 😆) V cool!

Cheers!

There will be beer tastings, parties, music and wakes. You’ll meet thieves and murderers, saints and goddesses. You’ll hear stories of kings and paupers, witches and bishops, Irish, English and Vikings from the Late Iron Age all the way up to the early 20th century.

the biggest events in the story of Ireland. You’ll find an 18th-century courtesan who had a wicked streak of beer snobbery and early medieval monks who wrote beer reviews so terrible, any Untappd fan would feel right at home.

Can't wait to welcome Christina to Bristol this time next week! She's helping us re-launch our Think While You Drink series of free talks this summer, and here's a little of what you can expect if you join us 🍻

It's day 23 of #31beerherstories and today we learn of Unnr, a powerful leader who had ties to Dublin. Importantly, she planned her grandson's wedding- which also turned into her funeral feast. That wouldn't be complete without funeral ale! More on my substack here open.substack.com/pub/braciatr...

Interested in these stories? Come and hear the wonderful Dr Christina Wade @braciatrix.bsky.social talking 1000years of Irish beer history at the end of the month in Bristol 🍻