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A couple of times a year, Butcher's Tears is home to a beer festival. There's the Franconian Anstich Festival, featuring gravity-ser...

A little divergence here from my usual UK fare. A foreign recipe. And a Lager one at that. As you can probably guess by the lack of brew...

Isn’t this exciting? A look in detail at Czechoslovakian beer in the first few years of the country’s existence. The chapter begin with ...

Evan Rail has written a wonderful post correcting the Czech entries in the Oxford Companion to Beer. It corrects many errors about the origi...

A Zymurgy article by Horst Dornbusch describing the origins of Pilsner Urquell. "Modern, in Groll's days, meant that the malt had...

As part of my occasional series on Anton Dreher and beer in Austria-Hungary, here are some random statistics. Not sure what they tell us. ...

As you might already have guessed, I've been searching for Anton Dreher in Google Books again. This time it turned up something more fas...

You can blame Pivni Filosof for this. Asking questions after my last Austria in 1865 post. He got me thinking. Something that's always d...

That's right. I'm not done with Stockholm yet. Oh, no. Lots more to come. Unless I get distracted. Wednesday, that's where we we...

I've just remembered. This is supposed to be a summer of lager, not a summer of merchandising. Time to plunge my hand into the gravity t...

You guessed it. I'm still working my way through David Booth's "The Art of Brewing" The section on continental brewing rea...

This is more like it. Jumping over the Bayerischer Wald into Bohemia. Exciting, isn't it? Well, I'm excited, even if you aren't....

Breakfast is at 08:30 again. I'm down before that. Last night was the latest I've stayed out so far. It must have been getting on fo...