tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post2822311465247125046..comments2024-03-23T04:23:48.076+00:00Comments on Tandleman's Beer Blog: Brew Britannia - Book ReviewUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-11265511545134824282014-06-08T15:57:03.081+01:002014-06-08T15:57:03.081+01:00I mentioned in my review the apparent paradox that...I mentioned in <a href="http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/strange-brew.html" rel="nofollow">my review</a> the apparent paradox that there is more interest in beer, and more variety of beer available, than at any time in the past forty-odd years, but at the same time we are drinking less of the stuff than at any time during that period, and especially less in pubs.<br /><br />This can't be treated as a criticism, as that's not the objective of the book, but it is a question that needs to be addressed.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-58311742442052623942014-06-08T15:30:10.035+01:002014-06-08T15:30:10.035+01:00Apologies. Posted "There have been a goodly.....Apologies. Posted "There have been a goodly..." as anonymous without signing. Dale Ingram, London. Historic buildings and planning consultant, London. And sometime pub campaigner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-83907728346914706902014-06-08T15:27:06.678+01:002014-06-08T15:27:06.678+01:00There have been a goodly number of books written a...There have been a goodly number of books written about the pubs and brewing sector's history from the dawn of time to about the 1950s. Brandwood, Davison, Slaughter, Jephcote, Girouard (Victorian Pubs), Williams and Brake, Gutzke (Pubs & Progressives) and the like. The best recent writing on the subject is the well-informed yet eminently readable Pete Brown. An encouraging number of students are also writing masters dissertations on the subject too (4 that have contacted me), but I have yet to see anything which offers the kind of really detailed insight Williams & Brake gave us in their 1982 The English Public House in Transition. It's worthy and packed with statistics which does not make for easy reading, but as a source of knowledge, it's invaluable. I've corresponded with B&B and read their blog from time to time, so I'll read it but someone does need to capture the brewing zeitgeist for the benefit of future commentators and historians. I'd offer, but I'm busy with my own worthy tomes on 1930s pub architecture and the biography of Sidney Clark, chief architect to Hoare & Co and Charrington's 1924-59. There are some compensations for spending less time on the front line of pubs campaigning and research is certainly one of them. Attention by writers to the pubs protection cause is long overdue with some commentators claiming that the battle for real ale has been won and unless we do something about the pubs crisis, "all we'll be doing 20 years from now is standing around discussing the merits of various bottled ales" James Watson, 2014. He's right. So, Boak & Bailey and/or Pete Brown, how about it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-33797425963755678022014-06-04T22:53:46.053+01:002014-06-04T22:53:46.053+01:00currently reading the book and I agree it's a ...currently reading the book and I agree it's a good attempt to pull together what is a very wide ranging and familiar story. No doubt they were overwhelmed by the amount of information they got from a wide range of sources, both email, telephone & in person interviews plus printed archive. <br />It certainly puts the current 'scene' into some perspective and maybe serves as gentle reminder that good beer was almost lost if not for the actions and activity of a handful of dedicated beer lovers.ABrewHaHahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03380577738378902797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-64177647327368731522014-06-04T00:45:20.544+01:002014-06-04T00:45:20.544+01:00Not read this blog so no comment. Not read this blog so no comment. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-14718998062841883672014-06-03T15:42:10.511+01:002014-06-03T15:42:10.511+01:00Coxy: Nobody obviously. Why on earth did they both...Coxy: Nobody obviously. Why on earth did they bother? It would only have sold 50 copies.<br /><br />Hmm.<br /><br />PS: You and Cookie? Normal? If you say so.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-4875613543022720182014-06-03T14:41:27.994+01:002014-06-03T14:41:27.994+01:00If they are giving away free copies to bloggers, w...If they are giving away free copies to bloggers, who is actually going to buy it? I couldn't imagine reading a whole book on the subject!<br />Can I have a Like button for Cooking Lager's comment please, a man who certainly has the normal persons attitude to beer & pubs.Coxynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-71261725512712057092014-06-03T13:58:59.247+01:002014-06-03T13:58:59.247+01:00I've been sent a review copy of this and will ...I've been sent a review copy of this and will be putting something together once the dust has settled from the Stockport Beer Festival. <br /><br />I'd agree it's an excellent book - always well-written and interesting. <br /><br />But I'd also formed the conclusion that it drops off a little in the post-Beer Orders era. There's a bit of a loss of overall context so that it comes across as a series of individual case studies, although possibly as you say it is too early to be able to see the wider view.<br /><br />A number of current issues like the rise of craft keg and the dubious embrace of cloudy beer are handled lucidly and fairly, though.<br /><br />I believe Harry Enfield has already played me as one of the "Old Gits".Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-69436314560557517392014-06-03T13:32:09.334+01:002014-06-03T13:32:09.334+01:00When it's turned into a movie I'm thinking...When it's turned into a movie I'm thinking Pacino/DeNiro/Hoffman/Eastwood as the 4 CAMRA founders looking back to their younger selves as Damon/Affleck/Gyllenhaal/Gosling in an inspirational ensemble piece like say "The Right Stuff"<br /><br />It could end with a torch being passed onto Gerard Butler as the Tandleman to a stirring theme by Vangelis with a ponderous hope that the next generation of crafties keep the fire alive.<br /><br />Only be a couple of hours too, so shorter than reading it.<br /><br /><br />Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.com