Shut up about Barclay Perkins

I chat with Dann and Martha about brewing in the USA and Yorkshire. And pissing on your own chips.

Our next destination is over the river. And up a dirty great hill. Luckily only halfway up it. The Forest, an unlikely brewpub. The cask Mil...

I wanted to get up to Sheffield. To see Dann and Martha. And Jules (of Hop Hideout ). That the city has lots of great pubs is another attrac...

Tennant were an odd bunch. They didn’t content themselves with brewing one super-strength Barley Wine. No, they had to brew two. This wa...

I've been able to extract a little more information about permitted output just after WW II. It comes from the annual report of Tenn...

It’s great to have recipes for some of the notable beers of the post-war period. Like Tennant’s Gold Label. Gold Label is interesting fo...

John Richdale was a small brewery in Sheffield which was gobbled up by Hammonds (the core of what would later become Bass Charrington) in ...

It wasn’t just the long list of ingredients in their grists that made Tennant unusual. They also brewed two Barley Wines over 1100º. The...

Tennant is a very confusing brewery when it comes to ingredients. They seem to use some of them in the wrong beers. Take Glucose Stout, ...

I imagine this beer must have been one of Tennant’s biggest sellers in bottle. Brown Ale was all the rage in the 1950’s. Like Tennant’s ...

As we’ve already learned, BB stands for Bitter Beer. Or Tennant’s Ordinary Bitter. It’s a good bit weaker, understandably, than their Be...

If it weren’t for the fact that Tennant brewed a weaker Pale Ale called Light Dinner Ale, I would have guessed that this was their Light A...

Tennant’s Mild had the rather odd name of Rock Ale. There was a simple explanation, according to Frank Priestley: "Tennant's p...

I’m going to stick my neck out here, but my guess is that Queen’s Ale was first brewed in either 1952 or 1953. It was a strong (by the s...