Shut up about Barclay Perkins

I was most surprised when I discovered that Porter was brewed in the DDR. Excited, too, when I got to drink some. While you couldn't f...

There’s a bit of a gap between my first two examples of Tally Ho. A little more than ten years. And there have been a few changes to the b...

I got around a fair bit in the DDR. I went to most of the major cities: Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Erfurt and Halle. And lots of not so big o...

I’m not quite done with Bavarian wheat beers. Because there are still a couple of types I haven’t covered yet. And if nothing else, I’m a ...

Someone asked after my recent series of posts on Bavarian Weizen: why no Erdinger? I did contemplate being a smartarse and saying; "...

I like it when I have a good long run of brewing records from a brewery. Because then you can see how a beer developed over time. Like Tal...

It wasn’t just pale Hefeweizen that I caught in my sweep of Bavarian brewery websites. I also found quite a few dark versions. It’s a si...

Mühlhausen was an amazing place in the 1980's. A town that seemed almost untouched by the last 300 years. It had a near-complete city ...

Don't go to Marks again, Dolores. Please don't. It's a hollowed out shell. Empty of joints and pies. Don't go to Marks...

You’re probably as relieved as I am that this interminable series of Barclay Perkins Mild recipes is now at an end. Unless I decide to do ...

I hope you’re enjoying my series on Lager styles. I realise now that II started this series a few years ago. Then got distracted and forgo...