Shut up about Barclay Perkins

The 19th century ended with one of the most significant events in British Lager brewing: the building of Allsopp’s Lager brewery, which wa...

And here’s the beer that replaced X Ale, the first iteration of Whitbread’s Government Ale. It must have been a bit of a shock for drink...

Porter didn’t desert the British Isles for long. It only disappeared for four orfive years, reborn through the rekindled interest in beer ...

It was only in the 1860’s that Lager became regularly available to drinkers in Britain. Two events were the catalyst to Lager’s arrival: t...

April 1917 was a momentous month for British brewing. As that’s when gravities started to fall. A drop from which most British styles neve...

Graham’s Golden Lager, which appeared in 1927 , was one of the first big British Lager brands. The tale of how it came to be brewed in Sco...

I've always been a bit of a contrarian. Swimming against the tide even when that meant certain drowning. That's how my relationshi...

Right. Gave this a whirl once, didn't work. But I can be as stubborn as Theresa May. Hopefully, not as ineffectual.   After I finall...

Barclay Perkins began experimenting with Lager during WW I. Once the war was over, they lost no time in entering Lager production seriousl...

When Whitbread introduced a Brown Ale in 1932, it wasn’t much like the modern idea of an English Brown Ale. Especially not one brewed in t...

Mild was one of the first topics I researched in the archives. Right after Porter. I didn't find what I expected. Because I had no i...

Barclay Perkins made a few trial attempts at Lager brewing during WW I. It obviously opened their eyes its possibilities, as they started ...