Shut up about Barclay Perkins

I thought that after more than a decade of Martyn Cornell and I putting the record straight on the history of Porter that the myths about it...

Barclay Perkins base level Burton Ale, KK, was a consistent item in Barclay Perkins draught beer offerings for around a century, surviving b...

A short and number-heavy post today. Because I'm feeling a bit crap. Nothing too serious, just an annoying cold. I told you that deliver...

In a time of raw material shortages, the need to supply the Wehrmacht with beer put extra strain on Dutch brewers. Especially as they mostly...

You can probably guess why 2020 and 2021 were the first years in yonks when I didn't visit the USA. Assuming the world doesn't turn ...

While pondering Dark Lager recently, I reminded myself of how long it's been since I last visited Bavaria. And how much I missed its del...

I was truly shocked when I first came across this beer. The only other 19th-century UK beers I’d seen that were under 4% ABV were Table Beer...

Though much reduced in gravity, Burton remained a popular style in London and was still a standard draught beer. It was generally brewed as ...

The CBK (Dutch brewers' organisation) was in a very tricky position. Not only did it have to serve the interests of its members, but it ...

This is the real oddity of Adnams beer range. Why an oddity? Because it was never brewed single-gyle, unlike most of their beers. But it was...

It seems that not every brewery had agreed to stop selling Licht Lagerbier (Light Lager) in Rotterdam. A couple of quite significant breweri...

The second infliction on Rotterdam was the banishment of Light Lager (Licht Lagerbier) from the city. OK, by this point such a type of beer ...