Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007 1. ‘Cain’s: the final chapter?’ and ‘Chapter 9: Full Circle’ by Chris Routledge Routledge wrote Cain’s: the Story of Liverpool in a Pint and has followed the ups and downs of the brewery under the Dusanj brothers throughout the last decade. Now, as it looks as if it might finally be on its last legs, [...] Long Articles About...

Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007 It seems that, between 1980 and 1983, around a hundred new breweries opened in Britain — about as many again as there were in total ten years earlier. Last year, as you’ll have heard repeated over and over, for the first time in a century, there were more than a thousand breweries operating across the [...] Brewery Numbers...

Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007 Believe it or not, we’re not completely stuck in the seventies, Life on Mars style: we’ve also spent a bit of time recently talking to the current generation of British brewers, and have a few more interviews scheduled. In particular, we’ve most recently been considering those parts of the industry which, if it hadn’t become [..