Shut up about Barclay Perkins

The Brewers' Journal was a bit obsessed with Lager at the end of the 19th century. I suppose it must have been disconcerting for UK brew...

 [Slideshow]   My hotel room with Altbier decoration. First port of call - Fuechschen. Guess what we drank? Alt, of course. Standing outside...

After a gap of a few years, I've visited Düsseldorf twice in a few weeks. First with Mikey and then with Dolores.  The upside of travell...

"I'll go and see what it is." Mikey volunteered. "It's some sort of bar." "That'll do. They're clea...

Last weekend I was in Germany. Again. I won't give you a full blow-by-blow account, since I was in Wuppertal. Again. With Mikey. Again. ...

More quotes from Schönfeld's wonderful book on top-fermenting beer from the 1930s. translated by me (with some help from Google Translat...

We're back with good old Schönfeld again.  In this particularly handy section, he runs through which beers had or hadn't made it p...

I just rediscovered yet another book that I forgot about. Too much material, that’s my problem. Way too much material. This is especially ...

This is a class of beer to which I’ve seen references before. It seems to be a general term (I’ve also See Rheinesches Bitterbier used) fo...

Table time again. I know. I’m a lazy git. Publishing a big table relieves me of the need to waste time thinking up those word things. It m...

I’m feeling rushed so little more than a table this time. Which reminds me – I still owe you that table of hop varieties. The first thin...