tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post6739511763432713083..comments2024-03-27T20:07:51.303-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: John Smith's of TadcasterRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-14951019075235213072015-06-04T04:00:39.519-07:002015-06-04T04:00:39.519-07:00P.S.: Slighting is a better term than mocking per...P.S.: Slighting is a better term than mocking perhaps for the murk style, at least as the term is used by many around the blogosphere. (A good 1700's-1800's equivalent was muddy).<br /><br />And of course many people like beer presented that way, the discussion is more to the point of public taste/expectation shifting over time.<br /><br />GaryGary Gillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-65849138362921878552015-06-04T03:27:15.575-07:002015-06-04T03:27:15.575-07:00Dr Foster's recounting makes it clear that one...Dr Foster's recounting makes it clear that one must be cautious about the degree of clarity being discussed here. A "heavy yeast suspension, which is what is now daily encountered and has lodged itself in part of England under the mocking term London Murky, would not have been palatable quite literally to drinkers in John Smith's trading area or many others, I'm sure. It was simply that the pots made it easier to rack and condition a beer which ended as lightly veiled. This kind of beer has never disappeared, jokes about "pond life" were legion into the mid-1970's. Yet the fact remains: what experienced brewers rejected at one time as unbalanced and yeast-bitter beer now is considered quite acceptable by many in the U.S. and Britain. This is probably due to earlier familiarity with different styles of wheat beer and unfiltered lager.<br /><br />Gary Gary Gillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-23699343933104372992015-06-04T00:38:16.801-07:002015-06-04T00:38:16.801-07:00A similar story is paraphrased in Dr Foster's ...A similar story is <a href="http://boakandbailey.com/2015/01/quote-dr-foster-clarity/" rel="nofollow">paraphrased in Dr Foster's Book of Beer (1979)</a> but that version specifies 'the appointment of a new Head Brewer in 1889 who held the view that since glasses had by then come into common use for serving, the beer in them should be bright'. So maybe the speaker got his dates confused, or the transcriber?Baileyhttp://boakandbailey.comnoreply@blogger.com