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We’ll finish with mashing. Which was a pretty simple process at Boddington. Much simpler than at most English breweries. Where the minimum w...

A couple of processes now. Boiling and fermentation. Starting with boiling. Interestingly, most of the beers only had a single wort.  Which ...

Hops to finish. Quite a lot of different types. But not very many details, sadly. About half the beers had four types of hops. Three English...

Time to look at what went into these beers. Which, it turns out, wasn’t a whole lot. Only two types of malt were employed: pale and black. T...

Let’s take a look at the beers Boddington was brewing at the turn of the 20th century. There were ten of them, in all. Ranging from Table Al...

I've decided to take the plunge and add a guide to all the breweries and beers of the 1970s to my book "Keg!". I'm still n...

We’ll end with the hops, of which there are also loads. Every beer contains at least two different types. While most have three or more. The...

Time to look at some Light Ales in more detail. That most unfashionable of styles. There’s not a great deal of variation in the gravities: o...

Now here’s a big change: another Mild has appeared. Which is slightly odd. My guess would be that it happened in the middle of the 1950s. Th...