Why so crispy? This was salvaged from the burnt-out wreck Of Barclay Perkins after the fire in 1832.
This is a Porter log. For some reason, the brewhouse name at Barclay Perkins was TT. As you can see, they were early adopters of black malt. That's what the Rd means in that column on the left. OG 1060, FG 1016.
My Pliny Diary!!
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Dear Beer Diary,
The last couple days have just been crazy for me! As everyone who is *
everyone* in Philadelphia knows, a famously bitter man is in town, a...
Next Session To Ponder Why We Do What We Do
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For our 62nd Session, our host, Angelo De Ieso from Portland’s Brewpublic,
is shining a light inward to see if we can figure out why each one of us
does wh...
New York Shows How The Beer World Should Work
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Great news out of the great state of New York this morning:
The Cuomo Administration on Tuesday unveiled proposed legislation aimed at
fermenting a revit...
Beer writing and the Dunning-Kruger effect
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I've been reading about the Dunning-Kruger effect recently. It's a theory
put foward by psychologists of that name which basically states that less
intelli...
Adult Beverage O'Clock?
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Last night I went for a drink. On Saturday afternoon I sat down, having
spent most of the day house hunting, and had a drink. On Sunday I served
beer to a ...
Five types of beer drinker
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Like any other, the market for beer in the UK makes much more sense if
divided up into segments rather than viewed as a monolithic block.
Breweries, pubs a...
Kalenderkontroll
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Ölrelaterade aktiviteter jag tänkt vara med på i framtiden:
- Lördag 10 mars 2012 14:00.
Öppen ölprovning, tema Storbritannien.
De Klomp, Linköp...
Here's a Good Idea
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Last night at the *Baum* in Rochdale, I was taking a few trial pictures
before starting our presentation to them as CAMRA Pub of the Year. Hence
this on...
This week in the Prague Post.
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I speak about Fénix, Prazdorj's new (marketing) concoction.
You can read it here.
Na Zdraví!
3 stars Hotels in Prague with 75% discount.
RIP, Mothership Wit
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Yesterday’s news, I guess, but I only saw this morning, courtesy of
Twitter, that New Belgium is discontinuing Mothership Wit. (If you can’t
see the image ...
The Beer Academy - How To Judge Beer
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We all love beer. You love beer, I love beer, and that's a beautiful thing.
Every time we take a mouthful, we evaluate it to some degree, either an
idle "m...
Graphically Evaluating Yeast Character
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Of all the aspects of homebrewing there are to take an interest in, I have
always found "yeast" to be among my favorites. Not necessarily how yeast
replica...
A fistful of Faust
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Brauhaus Faust Zu Miltenberg, in Bavaria, is only about a 50km drive from
where I live (I'm in the Dreiländereck of Hessen Bayern Baden-Württemberg,
so can...
Peeping Tom, Regent Road
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Peeping Tom, Regent Road, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
This tiny pub was on the corner of and Regent Road facing Goodiers Lane, and...
Breckenridge and Renegade
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Following a free beer or two at Wynkoop Brewing Company last Sunday, Kyle
and I met up with Wynkoop’s Marty Jones and his lovely wife Lisa for a
couple las...
Champagne Charlie Alex
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I love a good story of a mega-boozy, mega-expensive blowout. I also love a
story that illustrates how we are all in it together. Politics and
alcohol-what’...
The Story of Sir Taste-A-Lot
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…. ”Once upon a time there was
an eccentric Englishman called ‘Sir Taste-A-Lot” who came from the Land of
Real ...
Easter Spiced Pomegranate Quadruppel
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I tend to deflect most requests to brew a batch of beer for someone else’s
event. So little of the cost of a batch is the ingredients, the real
expense is ...
Northern beer in London
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I was in London on Saturday. While my wife and daughter went to see
'Wicked' at the ApolloVictoria I strolled down the road to The cask in
Pimlico. I gave ...
Alvinne bierfestival 2012
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Het Alvinne Craft Beer Festival (ACBF) kon dit jaar plaatsvinden op
zaterdag en zondag, omdat er nu geen overlap meer is met het Zythos
festival (ZBF), dat...
Cask Pub and Kitchen - Meet the Brewer
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From 5pm tonight.
Tonight "for one night only" we will have a huge range of Hardknott cask
beers on at Cask Pub and Kitchen.
We also have a one-off protot...
Something for the weekend
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If you keep an eye on the left hand side of 'A Swift One' you may have
noticed our beer festival guide, you haven't, why not ?. This week shows
three of th...
Get thee unto the beerhall
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A chestnut-red body under a head the colour of old ivory: *Weltenburger* *Kloster
Barock Dunkel* certainly looks the part as it pours. At a trifling 4.7% AB...
Courage Imperial Russian Stout
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I want to go camping with this beer. It’s like the camp fire when the wind
blows the smoke in your direction as you sink into that Moby Dick sense of
noble...
The voice in my head was real.
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Even as I was writing the first part of this post yesterday, I imagined
Richard Ruch sputtering and clucking in dismay while looking over my
shoulder. Sure...
ThirstyBear Golden Vanilla, Meyer ESB and Ryeison
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ABV: 4.5, 6.4 and 7.2% Origin: San Francisco, California, USA Website:
http://thirstybear.com
ThirstBear Brewing Company and Spanish Cuisine, San Francis...
Archives
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Been dipping into the archives to avoid *gasp* buying beer. This has led me
to one of the last two bottles of my Mind Melter IIIPA. It is a 17% ABV
monster...
The Session: What Makes Local Beer Better?
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The thing that makes local beer better is the same thing that makes my
family's garden tomato better than the neighbors' garden tomato, even if
it's not. B...
More New Zealand Notes
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As I flip through my notebook post-New Zealand, a few things stand out,
such as: Best Beer Name: Pernicious Weed by Garage Project Best Beer Story:
Red Zon...
It’s beer day in Iceland!
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30 years ago this summer, I attended a meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland. I
spent two days in endless discussions, and I did not get to see the sights.
But the...
Oakaly Doakaly!
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Back in 2010, when I was wandering around my home patch of Kennington in South London investigating the beer, I noted the old Mansion House pub on Kennington...
Nottingham redeemed
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Up in Nottingham for the weekend, last night the hungry family headed out
to look for sustenance. Needing somewhere child-friendly, I'd programmed
what was...
The stout that dare not speak its name
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Have public perceptions of beer styles become so skunked that it would be a
marketing disaster to call a beer by its proper name? On a rare trip to
Sainsbu...
Hops, sausages, sugar
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This is one of those posts where a certain amount of anonymity is called
for. Not on my part, obviously, but I should probably draw a veil over the
establi...
It’s been Epic!
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It’s official. I have just one week left with Epic Brewing Company before
moving on to a Head Brewer role at a new brewpub in Hamilton. Changing jobs
is al...
Czeska Batsza -- The Czech Tower
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I have go catch my plane back to LA, so just some pictures now. I ended up
closing down the place and didn't visit the other two left on my list, but
it wa...
Fighting Beer Fatigue
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Fatigue is a dangerous thing for a beer lover. It plays with your mind,
causing you to question what you know to be true and second guess your old
friends....
L'Aveu.
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*Carlsberg Suisse*, enfin, *Feldschlösschen*, viennent de laisser passer un
aveu majeur, dont je me demande s'ils ont bien saisi la portée...
Dans un comm...
My Stout Valentine
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The beer goddess necklace has been featured in this stout-themed treasury
on Etsy, full of valentine gift ideas for your beer lovin’ love.
Nip this prohibitionist nonsense in the bud
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Right, this is important. We are facing a potential alcohol ban on trains
in Scotland. It is only a bit of flag-waving at the moment, but it needs a
good h...
More on the origin of Lager
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Czech this time. A lovely bit of ‘proper’ research done by someone who
speaks the language, Evan Rail in Prague. And a summary and further comment
by Marty...
Villée
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I am now getting back to Belgian beer after some time away. Tonight, we
tried Villée, a collaboration between the Biercée Distillery and the Silly
Brewery...
Craft Beer Pubs
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Since this blog was created, indeed probably since the last time it was
updated, the term “craft beer” has become a much-ballyhooed part of the
beer scene ...
A preview of May’s guest beers…
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Our first beer fest might be over, but we’ve a cellar full of great ales
that will be making an appearance in May. Tomorrow we’ll be kicking off the
week w...
Fantastic Frankfurt Webcam
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I’ve stumbled upon such a nice and simple live webcam of Frankfurt am Main
skyline. It updates the pic by reload once a minute or so. This is how
Frankfurt...
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