Shut up about Barclay Perkins

I take a look at Light Ale, one of the UK's least fashionable beer styles.   

Next, we have Young’s original Pale Ale. Which, by 1960, had become Ordinary Bitter. Such a great name for a beer, I’ve always thought. Thou...

PAB is the lower-strength Bitter that Youngs introduced in the interwar period. With a gravity of 1039º. Obviously, WW II knocked down the g...

I was surprised at just how much Light Ale Youngs were brewing in 1990. 300-odd barrels at a time and reasonably frequently. Not as much as ...

One of the things I was particularly interested in getting from the Young's archive were brewing records from the 1970's. Because of...

We’ll end with the hops, of which there are also loads. Every beer contains at least two different types. While most have three or more. The...

Loads and loads of sugars. Two full tables worth. Starting with the ones I understand. Malt extract was a surprisingly popular ingredient. U...

A lovely, watery keg Bitter from my 1970s book.  I'm taking the tiotle quite literally. The other half of the Goldie parti-gyle was Crys...

Adjuncts. There are bound to be loads, aren’t there? Surprisingly, no. Two – from Adnams and Eldridge Pope – contain none at all. The UK’s f...

How many malts did these beers use? Loads. Though there is one that they all have in common. As all use a base of pale malt. There was one o...

Time to look at some Light Ales in more detail. That most unfashionable of styles. There’s not a great deal of variation in the gravities: o...