I didn’t think we'd be getting a new live version of Untouched in the year of our lord 2026, but here it is.
The boost to my mental health that this has provided this morning is indescribable.
youtu.be/6Wva3UTUYtM?...
Overheard in the pub:
"do you ever feel like you have big willy days and little willy days?"
Can't wait to be slinging pints of Sussex Best next Saturday and have loads of Yorkshiremen telling me how bloody expensive it is at £4.80 a pint 🫠
I think I've done enough ordering to last us for a couple of weeks, and then we shift a 9Gal of 5.8% West Coast IPA in just over a day, and I have to reassess...
GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with a bit on BrewDog, and several links that connect with and echo each other in pleasing ways on influencers and gentrification. 🍻🍺
boakandbailey.com/2026/03/news...
Adding books with film poster covers to my list of most unchic things, alongside lined wine glasses.
I was thinking earlier about what my favourite word is, and I think it's 'cahoots'.
HELP!!! THE HOPS MADE ME LIKE WILLIES AHHHHH
Customer: oh I'll have a pint of mild please, a rarity where I come from in Somerset!
Me: yeah? Is it more bitters down your way then?
Him: yeah and pales, horrible hoppy things. Gay beers we call them.
🙃🫠
A selection of pumpclips from Harvey's Brewery.
I'm actually so buzzin for the Harvey's Tap Takeover next Saturday 😍
A single slice of pie
Several slices of pie in a tray.
You can take the boy out of Birmingham, but you can't stop him from making balti pie!
I still remember when the Shakespeares was at its peak and they somehow managed to get a cask of De Ranke XX Bitter 🤯
Ah....how boring.
(Also just to toot my own horn we sold out of both of these in days)
I reckon I could have a good go at sourcing a keg of it. Maybe for next years Belgian Beer Week!
Haha alas not. It was 2 bottles in a pint glass. We had Chimay 175 and a LE Duchesse Red this week though.
If you want to know how rough my working weekend has been: I've just sank a pint of Rochefort 10.
Harry Enfields shopkeeper character in front of a store sign that says "I saw you coming"
Stuck a Ruby Mild and a naughties pop punk playlist on last night, just in time for all the brewery folks who were working the craft beer festival to come in after work. They all said they'd be back tonight 🎣
GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with good writing about beer and pubs from the past week. This time: drinking up north, the anti-sports bar, and the benefits of being weird. 🍻🍺
boakandbailey.com/2026/02/news...
What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚
Thanks for the recommendation! I've added them to my books to keep a look out for!
A deep brown stew in the foreground with a bowl of fries and bread in the background.
I asked the chefs to make Carbonnade Flamande for Belgian Beer Week, and they really delivered.
Beef marinated over night in Bruges Zot Brun, browned off with lardon and then stewed with veg, served with frites. Insanely delicious.
I've not! I am a relative newcomer to Orwell. I have only read Animal Farm and now Road to Wigan Pier. Down and out in Paris and London is next on the list.
A ridiculous car de-icer shaped like a belgian beer glass, with Kasteel 0.0% branding.
what's the matter babe you've barely touched your Kasteel Rouge 0.0% de-icer?
A pint of bass next to "The Road to Wigan Pier" by George Orwell.
Pint and book no.2 of the week was a pint of Bass and George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier. Bleak and prescient.
A copy of Golden Son by Pierce Brown on a table engraved with "the Cumberland arms" there is also a pint of ale on the table.
Pint and Book no.1 this week has been Golden Son by Pierce Brown. The second book in the Red Rising Series and by far the better.
The pint was Allendale Brewery Vienna Pale which was ok if not unbalanced.
A CD titled Pub Piano Sing-A-Long.
A CD rom produced by the AA called "Pubs&Inns in Britain"
some absolute corkers in the chazzers of Whitley Bay today 🔥
Pint of crisp beer looking over the Tyne
Undefeated pub experience.
A projector showing the ice hockey in a taproom.
Ice hockey on in the taproom.
When does the kissing start?
