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I've been very concentrated on the 20th century for the last couple of years. And I've realised that I've published very few L...

This time it isn't a pub. Neither is it from sometime in the past. It's here and now and a park bench. I've been trying to ...

Among my more weird hobbies is collecting old brewery price lists. And being an obsessive, I slot them into tables. I'm, over 5,000, i...

In 1979 I spent a few months living in a squat in the East End of London. We knew some people already living in the area and they pointed ...

To buy my latest book. So far the sales number just one. The proof copy I bought. Bit irritating after after paying Alexei 20 euros to per...

In the middle of the 18th century, London Stock Ales were monsters of beers. High gravity and ridiculously heavily hopped. Of course, th...

Was this a Hemingway pub? It's in the right spot at the end of Temple View Terrace,

It's amazing all the stuff I still stumble across in my archive photos. Like a handy summary in the start of a Truman brewing record. ...

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In 1977 I spent a couple of months living in Cross Green, Leeds. I think this is the house Temple View Terrace, to be precise. In an ...

About as unlike a modern IPA as you could imagine is the only way I could describe this Younger beer. The 1938 iteration wasn’t exactly ...

I've just knocked out a little book on IPA. Not a definitive book, by any means. Just a snapshot of UK IPA around the time of WW II. T...

More about permitted output, too. The limitation of brewers' output was a rather bluny instrument. Which didn't always operate f...

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This isn't going to be what you might expect. Because it's not just about where. It's also about when. My absolute favourite...

Not so much beery today. More 20-2-20 eyesight. Respectively. More a demonstration of how the world changes. This must have made total s...

I thought I'd stick with the 19th century for a while. Everyone must be getting totally fed up with watery 1940s beers. You certainly ...

Brewers faced many challenges post-war. Some caused by the war itself, others of a more bureaucratic nature. The late 1940s, like the wa...

Companies' annual meetings can be great source of information. If you ignore the standard grumblings about the rate of taxation.  Some...

After my little piece on IPA brewing in the 1840s, I thought I'd follow up with a recipe from the period. It’s odd how names come ar...