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Sunday, 19 February 2017

Postwar Scottish Stout

I'm just filling in the final gaps in my Scottish manuscript over the weekend. The end is almost in sight.

I've marked all the sections that are incomplete and I'm working my way through them. They're all in the final section, covering 1939 to 1970. Or so. The end date isn't 100% fixed.

I was surpised to see I hadn't included the grist table. Then I looked in the spreadsheet. It was obvious what I'd been dodging:


Only five beers but more than a dozen ingredients. An absolute nightmare of a table to assemble. Hence my lack of arsing to get on with it.

That's sort of the story of me writing a book. I throw down the headings then start filling in the easiest bits. The stuff I can do mostly from my head. Next I'll start attacking specific sections with multiple megaton nuclear tables, divided by the occasional paragraph of text. The hard stuff - where I need to go back to the brewing records or do extra research - gets left until last. And - as in this case - the awkward data.

Now I've had time to think, the answer's there: transposition.

With the book just about done, time to get Alexei to conjour up a cover. I'll get an ISBN number next week. That's just about everything. Except one last thing. A title.

Any suggestions? There's a free copy of the book if I use your title.

13 comments:

  1. J. Karanka19 February 2017 at 02:10

    Scotland Brews: Dispelling the myths of Scottish brewing

    You could replace myths by BS too.

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  2. Ed19 February 2017 at 11:03

    You're having trouble thinking of a title? Surely it can only be "Scotland! plus".

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  3. Oblivious19 February 2017 at 14:29

    Title: Where's the Peat....

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  4. Bob19 February 2017 at 15:03

    Och aye the brew!

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  5. Unknown19 February 2017 at 19:30

    Shut up about Scottish Beer
    Aye, Scottish Beer
    The wee book ae Scottish Beer
    The Muckle book ae Scottish Beer
    The guid book ae Scottish beer
    Beer;Made in Scottland
    The bonnie book of Scottish Beer
    Hoots! Scottish Beer
    Ma Big Book ae Scottish Beer

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  6. Korev19 February 2017 at 21:31

    True Grit - The story of Scottish Brewing

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  7. StuartP20 February 2017 at 03:16

    More Scotland!

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  8. Doug Warren20 February 2017 at 05:48

    Glorious Faem? (i.e foam)

    O thou my muse, guid auld Scotch Drink
    Whether thro' wimplin' worms thou jink
    Or, richly brown, ream owre the brink
    In glorious faem
    Inspire me 'til I lisp an' wink
    To sing thy name
    - Burns

    It helps that the Scots pronunciation of foam sounds like "fame."

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  9. Chris20 February 2017 at 12:05

    I'm don't know about my titles, but with that length it might be a Wee Heavy ;-)

    Boring Ideas: The homebrewer's guide to Scottish Beer OR The Real story of Scottish Beer

    Fun Idea: Everything you thought you knew about Scottish is wrong! (or "is Bollocks" if you can get a publisher to go along with that)

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  10. Robp20 February 2017 at 13:06

    Not Just Scotch
    "A journey through Scottish beer"

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  11. Korev21 February 2017 at 00:26

    Another one brief and to the point "Sct Bru"

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  12. Unknown21 February 2017 at 07:24

    The Breweries & Beers of Scotland; 1800-1970?

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  13. Oblivious22 February 2017 at 07:36

    Title: Scottish brewing or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about The BJCP and Love Grits

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