Shut up about Barclay Perkins

Let's allow Alfred Barnard to take our hand again and guide us through not one, but two, William Younger breweries in Edinburgh. Hol...

Alfred Barnard. What a great bloke. I’d like to shake his hand. For the service he did to history grubbers like me by recording so many clas...

From older ones. It's really striking. And I'm surprised no-one else has mentioned it. Or maybe it's just obvious to me. Becau...

We're back with Barnard's description of Hoare's Red Lion Brewery. This time it their water supply and mash tuns being discussed...

Time for some more about the history of the Red Lion Brewery. Latterly know as Hoare and Co. The brewery stood just to the east of St. Kat...

We're going to take a look inside Charrington's Burton Brewery today. First the brewery yard: "Entering the brewery yard,...

It was really weird finding this. A description of the new Holes brewery, written before construction started. Why so weird? Because it'...

Wow. I've just looked to see how long ago this series about Eldridge Pope's Dorchester Brewery began. Too long ago. Much too long ag...

Here's another series of posts I'd forgotten to continue. I really don't know what's happening to me. We're moving o...

This time we'll be looking at that most crucial brewing operation: mashing. And the bits of equipment needed to carry it out. It's g...

We're going to follow Barnards inside Eldridge Pope's Dorchester Brewery. And a fine. modern affair it sounds. Starting with tha...