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Saturday, 25 September 2010

What do you fancy?

I've always been a democrat at heart. Now's your chance to take advantage.

Hanging around in Paris waiting for my train - and the journey back itself - gave me plenty of reading time on Thursday. Enough to rattle through a whole stack or articles from the Journal of the Institute of Brewing. Ones from about 1900.

There was so much fascinating stuff that I can't decide what to post about first. This is where you come in. You decide for me. I suppose not so much democracy as indecision in action.

Here's a list of topics, tell me which you'd most like to hear about:

  • a history of beer duty
  • non-deposit bottled and cask beers
  • modern mashing operations
  • colour measurement
  • coloured malts
  • the use of flaked malts
  • arsenic in beer

Go on. You decide. I can't be arsed.

21 comments:

  1. Yuri Katunin25 September 2010 at 01:23

    These two:
    - coloured malts
    - the use of flaked malts

    Thank you!

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  2. Yuri Katunin25 September 2010 at 01:24

    These two:
    - coloured malts
    - the use of flaked malts
    Thank you!

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  3. Yuri Katunin25 September 2010 at 01:44

    These two
    - coloured malts
    - the use of flaked malts
    Thank you

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  4. athelstanbrewery25 September 2010 at 03:17

    Beer duty please.

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  5. Kelly Ryan25 September 2010 at 03:20

    Arsenic in beer for me! Had our H&S guy telling us a story about a poisoning case a century or so ago just the other day!

    Kelly

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  6. Gary Gillman25 September 2010 at 03:31

    Non-deposit bottled and cask beer discussion, which might throw light on palate considerations as perceived then. Was post-fermentation yeast regarded as an aesthetic nuisance? As something that could further mature beer, or add (take away) flavour, etc.?

    Gary

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  7. Anonymous25 September 2010 at 04:39

    Coloured malts!

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  8. Anonymous25 September 2010 at 04:52

    Coloured malts and arsenic in beer (!)

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  9. Bill25 September 2010 at 05:29

    Arsenic in Beer. Especially if it's from the French point of view.

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  10. Stan Hieronymus25 September 2010 at 05:41

    "non-deposit bottled and cask beers"

    Sounds innovative to me.

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  11. Anonymous25 September 2010 at 06:43

    coloured malts

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  12. Matt25 September 2010 at 07:23

    Non-deposit bottled and cask beers sounds interesting.

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  13. Mike25 September 2010 at 07:55

    modern mashing

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  14. Ironman25 September 2010 at 08:02

    I'm thinking coloured malts.

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  15. The Rabid Brewer25 September 2010 at 08:09

    Modern mashing operations, please!

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  16. Jeff Renner25 September 2010 at 10:43

    Modern mashing, please.

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  17. Korev25 September 2010 at 21:36

    colour measurement pls

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  18. Barley26 September 2010 at 07:57

    Beer duty history,please.

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  19. the gooch26 September 2010 at 11:59

    Colored malts and flaked malts (flaked grains??). I have never heard of flaked malts before only flaked grains (flaked barley, flaked corn, flaked rice ect), should be interesting. Being a professional brewer I am interested in grists, of which you have been very generous with your research.

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  20. Duncan from Folkestone27 September 2010 at 11:32

    ooh - they all sound so exciting ;-)

    My top three would have to be

    - a history of beer duty
    - non-deposit bottled and cask beers
    - colour measurement

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  21. Anonymous28 September 2010 at 12:59

    Beer duty, please Ron

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