Shut up about Barclay Perkins

The Brewers' Journal was a bit obsessed with Lager at the end of the 19th century. I suppose it must have been disconcerting for UK brew...

More quotes from Schönfeld's wonderful book on top-fermenting beer from the 1930s. translated by me (with some help from Google Translat...

For once, a trip that doesn’t start with trailing out to Schiphol. Because we’re travelling the civilised way: by train. It does mean taki...

Now here’s something I’m dead excited about. A description of Kölsch from relatively early in the style’s life. Kölsch only seems to hav...

This is a class of beer to which I’ve seen references before. It seems to be a general term (I’ve also See Rheinesches Bitterbier used) fo...

An American brewery calling a beer Zoigl-Kölsch. Homage or affront? It makes me feel uneasy. Zoigl is such a special thing. And Kölsch...

Table time again. I know. I’m a lazy git. Publishing a big table relieves me of the need to waste time thinking up those word things. It m...

I’m feeling rushed so little more than a table this time. Which reminds me – I still owe you that table of hop varieties. The first thin...

There's some fascinating information this time about German top-fermenting styles. A topic very dear to my heart as an enthusiastic dr...

Someone asked me the other day if Kölsch had become less bitter over the years. My guess was that it had, but that's all it was, a gue...

I love old books and magazines. As you might have realised over the last few days. So full of  fascinating stuff. To me, at least. I thoug...

Some statistics today. I sort of have an excuse for publishing them. Someone asked me the other day about the market share of Weizen. Here...