Shut up about Barclay Perkins

Is a question I sometimes ask myself. In those two or three minutes between flopping into bed and flipping into sleep. Twenty years back, I ...

More confusion with these Shilling Ales, with an 80/- which is lower in gravity than 54/- M. Note also that this beer has no relationship wi...

What was Binnie brewing these beers from? Well, let’s take a look. But don’t expect a huge number of malts. That’s just not the way they bre...

More results from my visit to the Scottish Brewing Archive. This time we're looking at Binnie, a small brewery in Haddington. With batch...

Time to take another look at Belhaven's beers, from a decade later. And there have been a lot of changes. There are far fewer different ...

Another somewhat confusing use of shillings. What were they up to at Usher?  Strongest of the Shilling Ales was, of course, 68/- M.  You exp...

I rise just after 9 AM and have a shower. Now I feel better. Today will be an odd day. After checking out of our hotel, we have around 10 ho...

I didn't spend all my time in Glasgow last week in the archives. I also went to a couple of pubs. Mostly in the company of my mate Robbi...

I collected plenty of new photos of Usher's records last week. But, as I've just started processing them,  this is from a previous h...

Here's the first results of last week's trip to the Scottish Brewing Archive in Glasgow. Details of Belhaven's beers in 1871. As...