The book is 153 pages of non-stop fun and frivolity. Almost. Between the thousands of tables you'll find the odd sentence and even the occasional joke. But mostly it's facts. Cold, hard facts. An iceberg of facts.
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
1909 Beer Style Guide - finished!
Me and Kristen have finally got our fingers out and completed the 1909 Beer Style Guide. Looks pretty groovy.
I'm convinced it will become a must-have ittem for all time-travelling beer lovers. At least the ones travelling to Edwardian Britain. But, let's face it, if you could choose anywhere and anytime to visit, wouldn't it be Edwardian Britain? I know it's first on my list.
The book is 153 pages of non-stop fun and frivolity. Almost. Between the thousands of tables you'll find the odd sentence and even the occasional joke. But mostly it's facts. Cold, hard facts. An iceberg of facts.
The book is 153 pages of non-stop fun and frivolity. Almost. Between the thousands of tables you'll find the odd sentence and even the occasional joke. But mostly it's facts. Cold, hard facts. An iceberg of facts.
Very good book, enjoyed reading it
ReplyDeleteI like it , even more special that you are both contributing , and great companion to your "Let's Brew Wednesday " effort .
ReplyDeleteWell Done !
I downloaded the earlier version 105 pages from Lulu will there be a free upgrade to this later completed version?
ReplyDeleteCheers
Peter
Korev, erm, you'll have to let me think about that.
ReplyDeleteThe other version - 1909! - was never intended for sale. I published it as a special competition prize.
If Edwardian Britain is so attractive, how long before you rename the blog Shut Up About Mary Poppins?
ReplyDeleteBeer Nut, Mary Poppins is 1960's Hollywood.
ReplyDeleteIt bloody isn't. Though yes, I'm aware it's not gen-ew-ine Edwardian. The first book came out in 1934.
ReplyDeleteBeer Nut, trust a librarian to know that.
ReplyDeleteWhat I didn't know until just there now was that the books are set in the present day, and it was Disney's decision to move the setting to the Edwardian era.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm the one who should be writing Shut Up About Mary Poppins...
Beer Nut, you've just answered my next question.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should concentrate on Shelley Bobbins instead. Much better songs, especially the booze hound one. "Buy me a beer, two bucks a glass, somebody help me I'm freezing my ass."
As someone who won a copy of 1909 in the competition, I can thoroughly recommend it. The tables really are fascinating.
ReplyDelete1909 was the year my grandad was born. I still drink from a dimpled pint jug he purloined from the pub decades ago. The ship on the front of the book looks a bit like the Lusitania, sunk in 1915, which he claimed to have just missed as a child returning from the US where his father had been working.
Ron Pattinson said...
ReplyDelete"Beer Nut, Mary Poppins is 1960's Hollywood.
Actually, 1960's Pinewood, Middlesex, but as Walt Disney paid for it, and I guess that he lived in Hollywood, you are morally correct.
If the book has recipes in it, I would surreptitiously plug it on the home brew forums. There must have been thousands of the Durden Park 'Old British Beers' book sold over the years.
"There must have been thousands of the Durden Park 'Old British Beers' book sold over the years."
ReplyDeleteReally do you think so?
Oblivious said...
ReplyDelete"Really do you think so?
Dunno really.
It's been around a long time, twenty years or more. It has run to several editions and several reprints. I would have thought that before the days of electronic printing, it would be uneconomical to get a booklet printed in much less than 1000-copy runs.
Durden Park recipes regularly crop up on the forums, sometimes some poor sod attempting to mash a couple of kilos of drum-brown malt.
Low thousands maybe.
Heh, I'm in the same boat as Korev. Got overly excited when I saw 1909! on the Lulu page. Already attempted to piece together and brewed a couple of recipes from the tables, I'd love to see the completed version now that it's here.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any other books you'll be finishing in the near future? (I'm cheap and want to save on the shipping to Canada). :D
ReplyDeleteThere. I have brazzenly plugged the book on The Homebrew Forum, Jim's Homebrew, and Northants Brewers forum.
ReplyDeleteThat must be good for, oh, two extra copies.
How come I got Peace in the post for winning and not 1909? Just curious as I already own Peace.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't wait... put in an order & just received it today (surprisingly fast). They'll have to on the shelf though, I'm in the middle of two other beer books!
ReplyDeleteIs there an errata for the book?
ReplyDeleteI have noticed errors in the recipes and wondered if corrections are available.
Anonymous, Kristen is working on that.
ReplyDeleteI was anonymous, now I am not.
ReplyDeleteDo you wish to know where I have seen errors?
TheBigEasy, yes, send in any errors you've discovered.
ReplyDeleteP67 - Courage - 1914 - Imperial Stout
ReplyDeleteThe Recipe by percentages do not match the Homebrew weights
p37 Fullers 1910 Pale ale - percentages don't match homebrew weights
ReplyDeletep57 Fullers 1910 Porter - percentages don't match homebrew weights
p121 recipe has no header so no name
I bought this book recently with your code as I hoped it would answer some of the questions I had with the Let's Brew postings. It answered most but not all (I was hoping for more details on substitutions). Are the corrections available anywhere online? Specifically I'm looking for the 1914 Courage Imperial Stout recipe. The grist weights are clearly wrong and the percentages seem questionable - 12.2% black malt seems really high in a 1.094 beer described as "Dark blackish brown"
ReplyDeleteEdward, drop me an email and I'll send you a corrected recipe.
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