Shut up about Barclay Perkins

It's amusing that some modern drinkers believe that dry-hopping is one of craft beer's innovations. When, in fact, it's been pra...

If all has gone well, I should be on plane jetting back to Europe. Do I feel guilty about all my air travel? No. Because I've never owne...

Unlike most brewers, Rose did bother to note down the dry hopping in their records. Though not always. In the case of the IPA, I’m sure they...

Time for another preview from my major book after next. Or something like that. I've a very good reason for posting this now. I've g...

I'm continually amazed at what grabs my readers' attention and what doesn't. I thought that the article I've based these p...

I hadn't forgotten about this. Just been resting my brain a bit. Not that I'll be getting through all of the second instalment o...

I'm very grateful to Boak and Bailey for pointing me in the direction the Google Books version of the 1893 Brewers' Guardian. It...

I'm still labouring away at the number face. Which is why I've no time for proper posts. Just ones cheaply spun from a few shoddy ...

I've been promising you this for a while. And here it is, the final post spun from Arthur Hadley's 1914 paper on bottling. The bit...

As promised, we've now moved on to the effect of hops on bottled beer. Fascinating stuff, I'm sure you'll agree. First it...

Time for a change of pace. And decade. And parliamentary committees. Today it's the turn of the Select Committee on Hop Duties. Great bo...

More random stuff from the logs. Bet you can guess how I've been spending most to my time. This note, stuck inside a Barclay Perkins ...

Dry hopping. It's a tricky subject, when it comes to brewing records. Some brewers didn't bother to record it at all. Others did. On...

I've just had my first quick glance. Of how Scottish beers stack up against the English. Fascinating. I've got a table of 500 beers ...