Memorable Beers #10: a Sobering Pint
By Boak. London, 8 July 2005 – the Day After. It felt really important to get into work that day, to show that our lives were not going to be disrupted by terrorism. Many of my colleagues clearly felt...
View ArticleMemorable Beers #11: Pale Ale for POWs
By Bailey During World War II, my grandfather was taken prisoner at Dunkirk, and spent most of the next few years at Stalag VIIIb in what is now Lambinowice in Poland, but was then called Lamsdorf. I...
View ArticleMemorable Beers #12 — Birthday Sophistication
By Boak. It’s 2002 and I’m in a central London chain pub celebrating my birthday with a mixture of work colleagues and friends from the real world. At this time, you’ll normally catch me drinking...
View ArticleMemorable Beers #14 — Guinness With Nick
By Bailey. The only reason I started drinking was because of peer pressure from my mate Nick. I stayed at university for an extra year to do a masters and he had another year of his engineering degree...
View ArticleSpecial grade mediocre everyday
We’ve been struck down by nostalgia lately and find ourselves yearning for a particular experience of the pub. Maybe it’s birthdays. Maybe it’s the emotional impact of the two weirdest years we’ve...
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