Shut up about Barclay Perkins

Logically, now we come to the hops. All of which are reasonably fresh. A majority of the beers have multiple types of hops, mostly English. ...

There’s not much more in the way of adjuncts and sugars.  Barclay Perkins KKK is the only adjunct beer, with just shy of 10% flaked rice. Wh...

Time to take a look at the ingredients. Starting with the malts. There aren’t a great number of them. Just three, two of them base malts. Al...

We’re moving on now to the stronger types of London Burton Ale here. A beer which was usually called KKK within the brewhouse. One of the st...

Very much a statistics-based post today. Looking at the number of licences issued for brewers who weren't selling their beer. The 1880 F...

The final process is the most important one: mashing. Surprise, surprise – it’s an underlet mash. A process beloved of English brewers both ...

Brewed in far smaller quantities than the Mild Ales was Adnams Pale Ale. Clearly, it was very much a minority drink. Like the Mild Ales, the...

Time to crack on with some processes. Beginning with boiling and fermentation. With just a single copper, boiling was a fairly simple affair...

Quite a few different types of hops were employed at Adnams. Seven in total, four of them English and four foreign. All from either the 1911...

Moving forward in time a couple of decades, we find a new version of X Ale. Which looks very much like a modern Mild. And is not very typica...

Sugars are always fun. At least in this case there are no weird proprietary sugars. Many of which leave me totally stumped. The total sugar ...

All the beers except for X Ale contain an adjunct of some sort. In most cases, that’s flaked maize. In quite small quantities, 7% at most. W...