Shut up about Barclay Perkins

At the start of WW I, typical London pub would have had two Black beers on draught: Porter and Stout. With the latter still worthy of its or...

You may have noticed that I publish a lot of recipes from the period 1880 - 1914. There's a good reason for that. It's the other boo...

At the start of WW I, London Milds were still powerful beasts, clocking in at over 5% ABV. Though the war would end up emasculating them for...

This is a rather strange one. A version of Courage Best Bitter brewed at Youngs. And, even weirder, it’s way stronger than Courage Best usua...

I have very mixed feelings about Courage. Having ended up owning both of the brewers in my hometown of Newark, they owned almost all the pub...

I have very mixed feelings about Courage. Having ended up owning both of my hometown of Newark’s brewers, they owned almost all the pubs. A...

I expected to see boil times shortening in the later war years as brewers tried to reduce their coal usage. Which was something they had agr...

Yet more stuff about Courage. Now I think about it, their tied estate was a bit patchy. Very strong in the South, but pretty well absent in ...

I've been digging into the Big Six recently. If you're writing about the 1970s, it's pretty difficult to ignore them. Courage I ...

More stuff on the demons of 1970s brewing. How evil they were. The ones who supped at the devils hosepipe. Two more Big Six members. Courage...

To call WW I a monumental shock to UK brewing is no overstatement. Though, while it may have put the boot into Porter, Stout managed to stru...

Not a recipe to plug my last book. Instead, one from my next book. Which is very nearly done. Finally. The recipes have taken forever. Over ...