The George and Vulture is a pub in the City of London. There has been an inn on the site since 1142. Records show the pub was once just called the George - the 'Vulture' part of the name is said to have come from a nearby wine merchant who used a live vulture for his sign. The venue was a meeting place for Sir Francis Dashwood's riotous and blasphemous Hellfire Club. It is mentioned at least 20 times in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers' and the Dickens family still have their Christmas Day gathering in the pub. #history #pubs #gothic #psychogeography #weird #London #literature #books

GOOD MORNING! Here's this week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with an exciting update from Manchester, and notes on the Rheinheitsgebot, among many other things.

https://boakandbailey.com/2025/07/news-nuggets-and-longreads-19-july-2025-good-vibrations/

Our latest newsletter is out. It's about how heatwaves, unlike 'lovely sunny days', probably don't help beer sales. Subscribers should find it in their inboxes. Non-subscribers don't really deserve to read it but *fine*, here's a web link.

https://boakandbailey.substack.com/p/when-it-gets-too-hot-even-for-a-refreshing

The 'menu' circa 1977 at The Star Tap pub in Maidstone (England) was as follows, didn't need writing down:

Picked egg/onion
Cheese roll/cheese & onion roll
Crisps: Plain, cheese & onion, salt & vinegar
Salted peanuts

That was it (sometimes "No onion mate")

Tell that to kids these days!
#1970s #pubs #food #history

Thanks to someone in Chicago area for getting a metal print of this Dublin, Ireland scene.

On Pixels here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/dublin-in-the-rain-mark-tisdale.html

The Bristol Post inadvertently show you which are the top pubs to avoid if you're working class and like a decent boozer

#pubs #bristol #WorkingClass #drinking #beer #SWEngland #WestCountry

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/10-bristol-pubs-named-among-10339879

GOOD MORNING! This week's beer and pub links round up has loads of stuff about cask ale, plus the return of Peter Brissenden, and some thoughts on the appeal of bullshit stories in beer history.

https://boakandbailey.com/2025/07/news-nuggets-and-longreads-12-july-2025-following/

I’ve completed my pilgrimage to one of the most iconic Welsh pubs ever. Despite numerous trips over the years it hasn’t changed a jot! #YTafanSinc #Rosebush #Iconic #Pubs #Wales #Cymru #Pilgrimage

BLOG POST: We finally made it to what might be the oldest pub in England, The George Inn at Norton St Philip in Somerset, and found it disappointing. Where is its sense of the past?

https://boakandbailey.com/2025/07/some-pubs-should-be-museums-on-visiting-the-george-inn/

When you think it can't get any worse, there's a very loud karaoke soundcheck in here. #walned #pubs

Yn aberthu dros fy ngwlad eto drwy yfed Smooth yn y Clive, fanzone #Ewro2025 answyddogol Canton. #Caerdydd #pubs #tafarn

GOOD MORNING! Here's our weekly round-up of the best writing about beer and pubs from the past week. Hot snacking and on premise penetration, and so on...

https://boakandbailey.com/2025/07/news-nuggets-and-longreads-5-july-2025-summer-of-sport/

BLOG POST: Some vaguely connected thoughts on how pubs often used to be run by couples, because breweries like it that way. Featuring Tony and Nina Boddy, Fred and Billie Askem, Charles and Peggy Skippins, and many, many more.

https://boakandbailey.com/2025/06/couples-wanted-run-your-own-pub/

Pawb (blaw fi) eisiau yfed yn yr haul, felly dwi wedi bachu bwrdd yn y cysgod yng ngardd gwrw ddyrchafedig y Vaults, yr Amwythig. (Llun i ddilyn)
#TafarnGerGorsaf #PubsNearStations #pubs #tafarndai #Tafarn

GOOD MORNING! Here's our usual Saturday morning round-up of good writing about beer and pubs from the past week, with some industry news, pub reviews, and a pub crawl.

https://boakandbailey.com/2025/06/news-nuggets-and-longreads-28-june-2025-the-good-life/

The thread about the Salisbury Arms and the famous literary association that never was https://threadinburgh.scot/2025/06/27/the-thread-about-belleville-house-and-how-the-famous-literary-association-that-never-was/ #ConanDoyle, #House, #Newington, #Pub, #Pubs, #Southside, #Usher, #Written2025

Here's our contribution to Session #148, hosted by Laura Hadland, on the subject of pub quizzes.

https://boakandbailey.com/2025/06/the-ultimate-pub-quiz-round-general-random-inclusive/