Fred Cook

Fred Cook

@fredcook.co.uk

Bristol based 🧑‍💻programming https://github.com/fred-cook 📽️cinema https://letterboxd.com/fuverdred/ ✒️cryptic crosswords 🚴‍♀️cycling 🧗‍♀️climbing 📖reading 🍻pubbing https://bristol.pub/invite/ps1eav8silxuv9r7i773ui2v 🎯darts https://fredcook.co.uk/map

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Jeff Alworth
@beervana.bsky.social

After I completed @akrennmair.bsky.social’s excellent Bavarian White Beer, I had many questions about the author behind the book. Andreas is doing wonderful, essential historical research, and I wanted to know more about his background, life, and process.

beervanablog.comAn Interview With Andreas Krennmair — BeervanaAfter I completed Andreas Krennmair’s excellent Bavarian White Beer , I had many questions about the author behind the book. Andreas is doing wonderful, essential historical research, and I wan...
Fred Cook
@fredcook.co.uk

Recently needed a triangular key to open a gas meter box, asked a friend to 3D print one and they have excelled themselves 🔺🔺🔺

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Pellicle
@pelliclemag.com

Nostalgia in droves, and pints of Bass too. The Mumbles Mile was once a place of debauchery and a rite of passage for younger drinkers. But what is it like now? William Ham Bevan takes to the streets to find the pubs of his past. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/7/...

pelliclemag.comThe End of the Mumbles Mile — Tracing the Footsteps of a Legendary Pub Crawl — PellicleAcross the road from the White Rose, a pair of neatly dressed women hand us a phone. “Could we be cheeky and get a picture?” It strikes me as an unremarkable request: a quick souvenir of the first pub...
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Ben Palmer
@johnzee7.bsky.social

BLOG POST: A response to @boakandbailey.bsky.social's "What does Helles taste like?" through the lens of a brewing scientist. hopandschwein.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/w...

hopandschwein.wordpress.comWhat does Helles taste like? A brewing scientist’s perspectiveOn a recent trip to Bristol, I met up with Boak and Bailey and local darts legend Fred Cook for some pints. Provocatively, I was asked what had happened to my blog. Since then, I’ve been sear…
Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray)@boakandbailey.bsky.social

BLOG POST: Go on then – *you* describe the flavour of Helles. boakandbailey.com/2026/07/what...

boakandbailey.comWhat does Helles taste like? | Boak & Bailey's beer blogReading The Beer Nut’s tasting notes for Weihenstephaner Helles made us think about how we talk about Helles.

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Forbidden Worlds Film Festival
@fwfilmfestival.bsky.social

Why oh why is the Master and Commander 70 mins documentary 'The Hundred Days' not featured on any of the Blu Ray or 4K releases? It's one of the best special features/making of docs ever made... and it's only available on the 2-disc DVD?! Pray tell, what is this madness?!

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Andreas Krennmair
@akrennmair.bsky.social

Well, here's the exciting announcement: I just published my latest book, Bavarian White Beer. It's about the history of Bavarian white beer that may also know as Weissbier, Weizenbier or Hefeweizen, including its historic and modern brewing technologies. #beerhistory dafteejit.com/2026/06/bava...

dafteejit.comBavarian White Beer, My New Book - Daft Eejit Brewingin which I announce the publication of my latest book about Bavarian white beer, its history, and how to brew historic and modern versions.
Andreas Krennmair@akrennmair.bsky.social

Enjoying a wonderful Bavarian wheat beer on the balcony, and very much looking forward to tomorrow, because I have something exciting to announce.

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Ray Newman
@raynewman.bsky.social

I've summoned the time and energy to manage a round of book packaging and posting, if anybody wants to buy signed copies direct from me. precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/06/14/h...

precastreinforced.co.ukHow to buy Thin Places in Hard Concrete direct from meIf you want to buy the paperback of Thin Places in Hard Concrete directly from me now’s your chance because I’ve got a limited number of copies and I’m all geared up to do the admin. One copy costs…

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray)
@boakandbailey.bsky.social

BLOG POST: Pub people love to chuck around the term 'Britannia table' – but what is it, exactly? Why do we call it that? And what does this type of table *mean* to people? boakandbailey.com/2026/05/the-...

boakandbailey.comThe history and meaning of the cast-iron Britannia pub table“Wait – how old is this pub table?” That’s what we asked ourselves recently while sitting in The Swan With Two Necks in Bristol, our pints wobbling about on a slab of cracked marble on an black-painte...

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The Man in Seat 61
@seatsixtyone.bsky.social

The excellent RTT (Real Time Trains) website now has an app! It shows how any British train performed up to 2 weeks ago, shows planned rolling stock for any given train, and shows the *planned* platform so you can be positioned ready, ahead of the scrum (includes Eurostar).

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Dan Grey
@dangrey.bsky.social

This is utterly disgusting. UK government is going to allow driving a diesel vehicle or taking an airline flight to directly pay for Russia to kill innocent people in Ukraine. Shameful, pathetic. #r4today

reuters.comUK allows diesel and jet fuel imports from Russian crude via sanctions carve-outBritain will allow imports of diesel and jet fuel refined ‌abroad from Russian crude under a sanctions carve-out, easing restrictions as fuel costs surge and add to pressure on airlines and households...

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Ray Newman
@raynewman.bsky.social

BLOG POST: The first in a series of pieces exploring the influences and ideas behind each of the stories in my upcoming collection ‘Thin Places in Hard Concrete’. precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/04/15/1...

precastreinforced.co.uk1: The Interchange – Thin Places in Hard Concrete, story by storyThe first story in my new collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, is called ‘The Interchange’ and is about a road that should not be there. This story is already out there in audio form thanks to…

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray)
@boakandbailey.bsky.social

BLOG POST: Notes on The Rising Sun, Frampton Cotterell, whose appeal is perhaps down to being frozen in time. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2026/04/a-co...

boakandbailey.comA contender for “best pub in Bristol” that is definitely not in BristolThe Rising Sun at Frampton Cotterell, South Gloucestershire, was named the best pub in Bristol by the local CAMRA branch in 2025. But the thing is... it’s in Frampton Cotterell, South Gloucestershire.