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I was recently given an interesting little DDR book, "Rund ums Bier". Published in 1986, it's from very close to the end of th...

UK brewers were extremely cagey when it came to the strength of their beer. Resisting attempts to make them reveal OG or ABV. There had been...

When you get to be as old as me,  inevitably many of the things you loved in your youth - or middle age - have disappeared. That's certa...

I'm finding that reading old issues of the Brewers' Guardian is conjouring up the mood of the 1970s even better than my music playli...

I’d assumed that the concept of a national UK beer festival originally came from CAMRA in the mid-1970s. But I recently discovered that the ...

When CAMRA started to really take off in the mid-1970s, a new type of pub started to appear. Free houses where, rather than just serving the...

Oddly, the first time I ever entered a brewery was to work, not to have a look around. Ever since, it’s been as a visitor. Not usually on a ...

When CAMRA started to really take off in the mid-1970s, a new type of pub started to appear. Free houses where, rather than just serving the...

There's been talk on the internet about craft beer running out of steam. Of enthusiasm lost and an ageing group of enthusiasts. As an e...

The age of modern beer festivals began with CAMRA’s Covent Garden Beer Exhibition in 1975. At least that’s how I remember it, I’m sure it wa...

Thank you the Mirror. Both Daily and Sunday. For analysing beers in the 1970s and publishing the results. At a time when beer strengths were...

I've been kicking around a though in my head for the last few days. What sources would I use if, 30 years from now, I decided to write a...

about the pricing of beer in pubs. It does read a bit like a letter you'd find in What's Brewing from the beery equivalent of An...

Thanks to Boak & Bailey for explaining the best beer clickbait terms. Now I just have to construct a post that somehow lives up to its...

Cornbrook  was a Manchester brewery bought by United Breweries, the successor to Hammonds, in 1961. It was a mid-sized brewery like many o...

Take-overs have been very much talked about lately. You must be getting fed up with me saying this: it's nothing new. The apparent m...

Now here's a special treat: a beer from the legendary Watneys. Unfortunately, they're legendary for all the wrong reasons. Maybe n...

I'm stuck hanging around in Toronto airport for a delayed flight. And annoyingly they don't sell any booze until 11:00.. Should I be...

Relief is at hand for those disappointed by the final drawing to a close of my series on bottling in 1901. I've found another article ...