Shut up about Barclay Perkins

It’s a surprise that Barclay Perkins was still brewing a Keeping Porter at this late a date. Most of their London rivals had dropped the typ...

I should get out more. To archives, not anything crazy like the outdoors. Because I always learn stuff from my visits. The unexpected is wha...

Porter chnaged several times during its history. From a 100% brown malt beer to one brewed from a mix of brown and pale malts. With the in...

1866 was an eventful year at Whitbread. Two incidents at the Chiswell Street brewery hit the papers within a few months. The first wasn...

Porter. It went mild in the second half of the 19th century. Aged, or Keeping, Porter and the vats needed to make it disappeared. But how qu...