Shut up about Barclay Perkins

More of this drivel. I find it interesting, though. Don't know what that says about me. A keg Pale Ale to start with. One of Ordinary Bi...

Back with that odd document of loose sheets. Which contain some useful information about Scottish & Newcastle's beers. What's ni...

There's a bunch of papers in the Scottish Brewing Archive title "Holyrood and Fountain beer specifications". They seem to be t...

There were some odd regional kinks when it came to beer styles. Best Scotch is a good illustration. Scotch and Best Scotch were used in the ...

You can probably guess which part of my next book I'm working on currently. Yes, it Scottish beer during WW II. I've only recently a...

Yet more WW II-themed IPA fun. Remaining in Scotland, but with a rather stronger set of beers. The stronger type of Scottish IPA looks v...

You must be sick of Scotch Ale by now. You're not the only one. But I feel obliged to continue my death march until I lie by the roads...

Just a quick post. Something I harvested at the Scottish Brewing Archive on my recent visit. It's quite a handy document. It has the...

The 1950's was the startr of huge process of consolidation in the UK brewing industry. In Scotland it took even more extreme form than...

Keeping the relationships between McEwans and Youngers clear in my head is quite a struggle. Let’s see if this helps. I found it rather st...

Numbers – I can never get enough of them. If only I had more time to harvest them. But for some reason a day only has 24 hours rather than...