Shut up about Barclay Perkins

Isn’t this exciting? A Yorkshire IPA. And one which might even satisfy a style nazi of today. With an OG of 1064º, it’s a full-strength Pale...

I turn my attention to 19th-century IPA. What was it like?  

Excerpts from my talk on the history of IPA at Fronhauser Sudwerkstatt. Fairly short excerpts, as the talk was 150 minutes. I hard to stop o...

And here we finally are at the top of the Pale Ale tree. It’s been a long climb, but worth it. You might be a little confused by this beer. ...

A special treat today. With a discussion with the Burton method of brewing IPA. Starting with something about the weird way IPA was aged. Mo...

True to style, Binnie also sometimes called this 60/- Bitter. What was this, then? I’m going for IPA. Just because it might annoy some style...

Sometime between 1883 and 1887, Truman introduced a new type of Pale Ale, called LB. One which was quite different from their existing beers...

Am I Done yet with Truman Pale Ales? We'll see. Top of the range coming up.. Here, we have a top-class Burton Pale Ale, which was direct...

Unsurprisingly, top of the Pale Ale tree is P1. In this case, a stock version. Despite not officially being named so, it’s a classic Burton ...

Here we are then. At the Pale Ale pinnacle. A beer called IPA. Which, in itself, is fascinating. Because it’s a case where a brewery’s IPA i...

Continuing on the Irish theme, we're taking a look at the beers of a small brewery in the aftermath of WW II. To say there had been a cu...

As someone whose beer perspective goes back as far as the Babylonians, I'm well aware that all styles have their day. Waxing and waning ...

With their bottled Pale Ales concertinaing due to gravity cuts, Barclay Perkins seem to have dropped the bottled version of XLK, either in l...

IPA was popular as a beer name between the wars, if not exactly that precise an indicator of the beer it was attached to. More a marketing d...

Draught IPA, to be specific. Though I think I'll return to the bottled IPAs as well. If there's a beer style that pisses me of, it...