Boak

What is your name?
Boak

What is your location?
London, UK

What is your blog?
www.boakandbailey.com

Do you have a favorite style of beer? What is it?
Not really – my tastes are pretty catholic, and it really depends on my mood. Sometimes I crave a dark fruity Belgian ale, sometimes only a hoppy IPA will do.

How did you come to write a blog about beer?
We (that’s me and my other half, Bailey) were on the train back from a beer-holiday in Germany. We thought it would be interesting to start a blog – it would lend some focus to our drinking and would help us keep track of what we’d knocked back…

What prejudices have you had to overcome?
When I started blogging, I chose a gender-neutral name because I didn’t want people pre-judging my opinions or not taking them seriously because I’m just a girl…which is something I’ve had plenty of in the “real” world.

I’ve been patronised on a couple of occasions by homebrew shop owners trying to convince me that I want something different (or rather, that my boyfriend wants something different!), and I generally don’t bother trying to talk about beer with any men that I don’t know really well. But worst of all for the female beer lover is going into a pub on your own. It may be the twenty first century, but it appears you still need a chaperone. More on that later…

Any other passions?
Good food, cooking and travelling – all very compatable with beer!

Any parting thoughts?
It would be nice to have the alcohol capacity of a man sometimes…sometimes you do just have to accept there are gender differences.

Boak is half of the writing team at boakandbailey.com (RSS feed)