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I explain the history of a rare survivor of Germany's pre-Lager beer culture.  

We're back with good old Schönfeld again.  In this particularly handy section, he runs through which beers had or hadn't made it p...

My elder son, Andrew, recently moved out. Great news for me and Dolores. No, it’s not that we don’t have to buy him beer any more or was...

Now we’re done with Grenell’s description of Berliner Weisse brewing methods, it’s time to continue with some other old top-fermenters. St...

Over at RateBeer they've added a new style category. Or rather a combined one to include Grodziskie, Gose and Lichtenhainer . Hang o...

These old German recipes are so much fun, I'm posting another today. For one of my old favourites: Gose. OK, I realise it isn't te...

I told you I'd translate the section on top-fermenting beers in "Encyklopädisches Handbuch der technischen Chemie". Not all at...

Technical publications are great sources. Especially chemistry publications. I've found so much useful stuff in them. Below is a quick o...

Gose is a beer very dear to my heart. One of my specialist subjects. I can recall my excitement when, reading "Die Biere Deutschlands...

Today has had its moments. Berlinisaplacewithdepthsandbreadthsandheights. I`m not being all avant garde. That`s how things come out on this ...

I'm heartened by the response to my posts about old German styles, especially the weird wheat styles. I've had a few enquiries from ...

"I know what I'm going to post about today." Andrew: "About the school?" "No, that has no connection with beer....

I'm having a day off Franconia. Instead I'm going to talk about another of my obsessions: Gose. For years it was the beer style I mo...