This month at Barclay Perkins

It hasn't helped me with spreadsheets.

A couple of themes will be hammered at, Until they become as flimsy as silk. For a simple reason: I need to queue up posts before my next trip. The second half of September I'll be in Chile. Again. After just a couple of months.

Having hung a dead albatross around my neck by insisting on posting every day, two week trips form a bit of a problem. No way I can guarantee generating a post per day while I'm gallivanting around. So I queue up posts to cover the whole time I'm away.

Thinking up a couple of dozen posts in a few days before I fuck off enjoying myself can be a chore. And I usually settle on grabbing a theme and mercilessly beating it into submission. Until I've squeezed every last post from its beaten and bruised body.

This time around, that theme will be my 1970s Beer Guide. Your chance to relive the glamour of a vertically integrated brewing industry. And to marvel at the tied estates of brewers long forgotten. By everyone but me.

It's all material from my book "Keg!". A candid look at the UK beer scene in the 1970s. With a load of personal stuff.

I've knocked out a good few books now (somewhere approaching fifty). This one is different. Because it covers a period I lived through, it's far more personal. I'm much more invested in it than in my other books. Which might explain why I keep adding more material. And even whole new sections. I was aiming for 300-350 pages. It's already 379. And I'm barely ankle deep in the brewery guide. Here's hoping I can keep it under 500 pages. 

A more normal service may resume in October. After I've published all my travel posts.