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Time to look at the bottled beers in Whitbread’s 1934 price list. Which includes, in addition to the four beers brewed in their Chiswell Str...

A special treat today. With a discussion with the Burton method of brewing IPA. Starting with something about the weird way IPA was aged. Mo...

More correspondence from Jacobsen. Because you lot seem to like this stuff. This time two short letters. The first shows how keen Jacobsen s...

Or, more accurately, Jacobsen correspondence. This time, from Jacobsen Senior to Jacobsen junior. Dated 22nd March 1869. After some time at ...

The company was formed in 1967 by the merger of Charrington United Breweries and Bass Mitchells & Butlers.  Creating the largest brewing...

I’ve arranged to meet Mike at 9:00 for breakfast. Which is a buffet. What do I get? What do you think? Bacon, scrambled egg and mushrooms. Q...

More in the inimitable management style of H Alan Walker (HAW). When Bass M & B merged with Charrington United Breweries in 1967, Walker...

Today I'm going to publish some excerpts from Anthony Avis's wonderful memoir: "The Brewing Industry 1950 - 1990" They all...

It may be hard to believe now, but the Big Six, in their prime during the 1970s, were some of the largest brewing groups in the world. But, ...

More about the wonderful Runcorn brewery. This time it's a puff piece in the Brewers' Guardian. It's rather typical of the techn...

Marketing releases are often hilarous when looked at with hindsight. Like Bass's new regional Bitter for Yorkshire. Which tried to build...

There were two Bass Charrington pubs in town. The Eagle, a substantial detached Victorian building a bit outside the centre. I went in there...

The classic idiotically-conceived mega-brewery. Thought up by a chairman without brewing experience (who believed any beer could be brewed a...

Bass Charrington, rather oddly, given that they closed the brewery a couple of years later, put a lot of effort into developing a type of ta...

More Lager stuff from the Brewers' Guardian. Including a fascinating glimpse into early markey share. Despite many smaller brewers plung...