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More individual DDR beer styles.  What I like about the standards for DDR beers is that they are so specific that you could easily brew beer...

Today we continue with the individual beer styles of the DDR. What I find fascinating is how they were mostly pretty much the same as in Wes...

Not finished yet with my DDR talk. Clearly, it's better when I'm giving it in person. As then you get all my bad jokes. You do, at l...

Trawling through the newspaper archives looking for "original gravity", I came across loads of hits from the 1950s relating to the...

This time we're going to look at how these different types of beer were brewed  Starting with Mild. "The brewer who wishes nowadays...

One of the frustrating aspects of old brewing manuals is how little they talk about specific beers. Other than when it's something very ...

I know. More numbers. But some of them are just so juicy. How could I leave them on the vine? One large change – which was either precipitat...

Surprisingly, I haven't run out of enthusiasm for these style definitions yet. Let's see how long it lasts. We've now moved post...

No, I hadn't forgotten about my attempt to create a straitjacket for UK beer styles. As I'm breaking them down both by period and re...

Here's the final part of my definition of London Best Bitter. This time covering the post-WW II period. This definition is mostly based ...

As a couple of you said you wouldn't mind some more historic style definitions, here's another one.  It's the same style, but fr...

Remember my piss-take style guide to IPA? Here's something similar for Pale Ale. Or rather the opposite. As this time I'm publishing...