Shut up about Barclay Perkins

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

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...

How much more of this 1970s fun will we have? Loads more. Unless, of course, I get bored or distracted. Something that is quite likely. I ge...

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more confusing with IPA, along comes some post-war weirdness. Post-war, another type of IPA ...

Continuing our look at cellar practices in the early 1920s, here's something that took me by surprise: tank beer. I was quite shocke...

It's now time to hear from some Milk Stout drinkers. And to learn what they think makes a Milk Stout. They son't seem to have be...

The Brewery Manual handily summarises the financial information of each brewery. I never thought I’d find this sort of thing interesting. ...

I think we're finally there. The very last post in this series. I think. We'll be looking at the results for each of the beers fro...