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You can see how far I've got in my book "Keg!". Just about all the way through draught Bitter. I'm cracking on so well, th...

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...

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...

I polished off the Shepherd Neame recipes for "Keg!" yesterday. Including this little number. Finally, we’re at the top end of the...

Next, we’re taking look at the sugars. You can see that Shepherd Neame was one of the brewers who threw some malt extract into the mash tun....

Time to look at what went into these beers. Starting off with the malts and adjuncts. Pale malt was the only base employed. Nothing very unu...

Though I haven't been performing paid work for almost four years now, that doesn't mean I'm idle. I was going to say that I writ...

I’d been struggling quite a bit with some of the Shepherd Neame beers. Trying to work out what the hell they were. I spent quite a while try...