Shut up about Barclay Perkins

Sounds like the title of a horror story, doesn't it? Really, it concerns the change in packaging of take-home beer. What they're rea...

As you may already be aware, UK brewers used almost exclusively Memel oak from the Eastern Baltic to construct their casks. The discussion w...

It seems that in Dublin they had their own particular way of handling beer for the pub trade. Specifically, Porter. " Dublin porter for...

More about how beer intended for pubs was handled. Faulkner thought that the temperature pub beer was stored at in the brewery was really im...

At a time when resources of every kind were short, it made sense on many levels to favour cask beer over bottled.  With both glass and rubbe...

Back again with 1920s cellarmanship. A topic which I find weirdly fascinating. First, we commence with how to handle casks. A very impor...

I'm often asked about the lining of casks. Something which was common on the Continent and which many assume was also practised in the...

Before WW I it was quite commonto buy in a cask of beer to drink at home. The newspapers were full of brewery adverts for exactly this pur...

I just remembered something. William Younger always recorded what they racked into in their brewing records. Which means I can see exactly...

It’s taken a while, this series, but the end is in sight. Almost. We’ve already visited the most interesting bits of the brewery. Well,...

Remember my insanely-detailed series of posts about cask beer in the 1950’s? Well I’m back with more, having found an insanely-detailed ar...

We’re finally there. At the end of my marathon examination of cask beer handling in the 1950’s. I’m going to have to find something else t...

Can you believe it? We’re just about done with this look at the handling to cask beer. The correct use of spiles is essential to produce...

Whoever knew handling cask beer was such a complicated process? Anyone with half a brain should realise. That not everyone does is the cau...

The fun really never ends, does it? Or does it never start? This time we’re revisiting fining. Another topic that gets Jeffery all hot u...

This has been the year for interminable series. Though I doubt I’ll ever match the series on draught beer quality in the 1920’s That laste...

We’re still in the pub cellar, but the beer is inching its way towards the glass. Only a few more weeks to go. This time we’re looking at ...