The Last Boak & Bailey Newsletter

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Feb 10 • Boak & Bailey

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January 2026

You should start writing about beer and pubs

There’s always room for more people visiting pubs, drinking beer, and sharing their thoughts and observations.

Jan 26 • Boak & Bailey

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December 2025

Looking back on 2025 in beer and pubs

Highlighting the best of our own writing, interesting writing by others, and wrapping up with some conclusions about where British beer is at as we…

Dec 21, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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November 2025

Reasons to be cheerful about beer in 2025

It’s not all doom and gloom even if (looks out of window) it is literally all gloom. From pubs to breweries, there’s plenty to give us a warm glow.

Nov 20, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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October 2025

We can’t speak for anyone else but here’s how to attract us to your pub

You’re trying hard, you’re doing everything right – so why is nobody coming to drink in your pub, bar or taproom?

Oct 19, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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September 2025

Reinvention and redundancy

Pubs, breweries and, uh, massive campaigning organisations can reinvent themselves. Or they can declare themselves redundant.

Sep 24, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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August 2025

Why aren’t there more clones of cult beers on the market?

Perhaps brewers are too polite to copy each other’s homework. Maybe brewing clones is not really possible. Or it could just be an understandable fear of…

Aug 19, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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July 2025

When it gets too hot even for a refreshing beer: how heatwaves hit pubs

There's summer, when you want to hang out in a beer garden and drink lager. And there are heatwaves, when you want to hide and chew ice cubes.

Jul 16, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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June 2025

10 breweries that make us say “Ooh!”

When we walk into a pub and see these breweries' beers on the bar we get a little bit excited and know we're going to end up stuck for a session.

Jun 17, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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May 2025

“Pils, please.” – the power of the calibration lager

Ordering "the blandest thing on the menu" is a great way to understand whether a brewery really knows what it's doing.

May 21, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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April 2025

Stress and confusion: the concept of cognitive load in the world of beer

Whether we realise it or not, most of us seek pubs (and beers) which require us to use less brain power, and to do less on-the-fly risk assessment.

Apr 16, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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March 2025

A world that smells of cinnamon, berries and vanilla

“We’re not allowed to eat pudding anymore so we’re smoking and drinking it instead.”

Mar 16, 2025 • Boak & Bailey

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