Shut up about Barclay Perkins

This was a fun little article to come across. And not just because it references Schonfeld, the VLB's top-fermentation specialist. But a...

Walker & Homfrays Embee Amber Ale label . It was in this period that Pasteur unlocked the mystery of fermentation and the true nature of...

Mostly just photos again this time. I do like to have some life at the weekend. That’s my excuse for being lazy every now and again. I’ll ne...

We’re almost finished with the fermenting arrangements at Park Royal. Just the fascinating matter of yeast collection and processing. W...

We start actually inside Guinness’s Park Royal fermenters. Taking a close look at the rousers. Very important kit, rousers are. “Origin...

Not too far to go now. Before you know it we’ll be done and I’ll have to think up another interminable series. Were now at one of the mo...

Staying with the Wahls, we’re now considering the different storage method employed by British and German brewers. It stresses the diffe...

We're almost at the end of another marathon series. Anyone still out there? As I mentioned earlier, the food supply problems of WW I...

I'm skipping one bit about nitrogen in malt that made my head hurt when I read it. We'll move directly on to yeast problems. Thoug...

Here's more about the forgotten contribution of Heineken to pure yeast cultures. This time in the form of a book review. " THE I...

The role of Heineken in promoting the use of pure yeast cultures seems to have been mostly forgotten. Odd, considering how the brewery is ...

You have to admit that Mr. Lott seriously analysed the different elements influencing the flavour of bottled beers. Which is one reason wh...

It seems several lifetimes ago that I was obsessively researching and writing about Pale Ale and India. Before Scotland and all things hop...

I'm now going to quote parts of Narziss's article which do directly refer to the Reinheitsgebot. The first is something I'd ...

In the second of this brace of posts we look at the beers being brewed in Germany during the war. While in Britain shortages of raw mate...