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Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey
Personal blog · boakandbailey.comculturehistory
Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey writes Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog, a personal blog at boakandbailey.com about culture and history. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on British pub prices and pub culture, such as its six-pints-for-under-two-pounds post, alongside threads on falling pub numbers and the Remote Lounge NYC venue.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
UK beer blog running since 2007, with tasting notes, beer history, pub reports and commentary on British booze culture, by Jessica and Ray.
What Hacker News says?
In the Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy, circa 1978, six pints of beer would have costed around 2 pounds, and for some reasons this dialog always stuck with me: https://boakandbailey.com/2014/04/six-pints-for-less-than-a-...
Comment linking /2014/04/six-pints-for-less-than-a-fiver-1978/
on “Number of pubs in England and Wales falls to record low”Submitted AI has made it easier than ever to make apps nobody asked for as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAn earlier venue with a similar concept was "The Birds Nest", a pub / nightclub in the UK. > They renamed The King’s Head, an almost brutalist post-war booze bunker at 2 King Street, installing a state-of-the-art steel dance-floor, light-show projectors and a high-end sound system. > They also installed an in-pub telephone network so that if you saw someone you liked the look of, you could dial their table and have…
Comment linking /2020/10/watneys-birds-nest-pubs/
on “Way ahead of it's time: The Remote Lounge NYC”Submitted Harp: The cool blonde lager born in Ireland as a story · 1 points
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