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Today’s is a very special recipe: the legendary Allsopp Arctic Ale. A beer genuinely brewed for Arctic expeditions. It’s courtesy of Chris B...

 Another one of my little videos. This time it's about one of my beery obsessions: Gold Label.  

Another little video, this time looking at the strongest type of English Beer, Barley Wine. And, of course, I mention Whitbread Gold Label, ...

It’s wonderful to see a post-war brewery making a full range of X Ales, from X all the way through to XXXX. That’s all very well, but what w...

Strongest of Young’s regular beers was Old Nick. Another of the casualties of the move to Bedford. Though I’m not sure if it disappeared imm...

Sometime between 1970 and 1975, Youngs dropped their Celebration Ale and replaced it with Old Nick. A pretty similar beer, except with a sli...

Parti-gyled with the Best Malt Ale I published a few days ago was this beer called CA in the brewing book. Which I’m guessing stands for Cor...

Strongest in Adnams range remains Tally Ho. Not sure what they called it back then. In recent years, they’ve called it a Barley Wine. Not so...

There are so many sugars that I’ve split them into two tables. This is pretty typical of UK brewing in the 1970s. With all types of speciali...

The recipes for Barley Wine were pretty diverse. A total of five different malts were used, including three different base malts: pale, mild...

Usually, the strongest beer produced by a brewery, these beers were almost exclusively available in bottled form. A surprising number of bre...