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I thought I may as well give you Whitbread's whole range of Pale Ales. No need to thank me, It's just my job. Below PA in the streng...

Here we are just before the great cataclysm of WW I. And Whitbread’s flagship Pale Ale is as muscular as ever, even a bit stronger than in 1...

I'm off to Brazil tomorrow. That's my excuse reason for yet another excerpt from an unfinished book. For the first time, there’s a c...

Yet more about what I, probably irrationally, believe to be the Golden Age of UK brewing. Before the ravages of two wars knocked all the stu...

Apologies for banging on about the 1880 to 1914 period. I need to bash out a shitload of posts and I'm just recycling my work on my book...

Time to look at the situation after the turn of the 20th century. In the run up to WW I, gravities dipped a little in reaction to tax increa...

Not much to relate this time. I do have a lovely table, though. As high-class beers, Pale Ales expected the best hops. At the time, that usu...

You can probably guess what I've been up to this week - getting seriously stuck into "Free!". Despite the freedoms given to br...

The oldest type of these Pale Ales (I’m not including the lightly-hopped beers of the same name brewed in the 18th century), they were unive...

Finally, we get to the hops. Always fascinating. With the odd exception, they were all English. That Saaz were used to dry hop PA Export, a ...