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Some more numbers I've plucked from the BBPA Statistical Handbook 2025. This time comparing the tax rates amongst European countries. I...

How beer is taxed can have a big impact on what gets made. A couple of examples. In the system introduced in the UK in 1880 (and in effect f...

Today it's the rest o my cut-out-and-keep guide to 19th-ccentury UK brewing legislation. Which isn't quite so sugar-heavy this time....

Something a bit different today. Really a reference guide, rather than anything else. For any budding beer historian who doesn't feel li...

Porter and Stout were transformed in these decades. And the catalysts for this change were taxation and technology. The former necessitating...

Beer wasn't just in short supply in WW II. It was also short on variety. The main reason for the reduction in choice was beer zoning, th...

I always wondered a couple of things about Australian beer when I lived there. Why was it stronger than beer in the UK and why did they us...

One of the unique features of tax rises in the first half of the 20th century is that they usually amounted to an increase in 1d per pint,...

Porter wasn’t a static thing, it continued to develop during the 1700s. Moving away from its origins as a 100% brown malt beer. Towards ...

As with every conflict since the English Civil War in the 17th century, WW II saw a big increase in the tax on beer. It’s the traditional ...

More numbers. What fun. It’s no surprise that the money raised from alcohol increased during the war. That’s the way UK governments alwa...