Shut up about Barclay Perkins

There were many reasons for me starting this blog. Finding an audience for Barclay Perkins monologues. Keeping track of my research. Showing...

Before yesterday's beer tour*, I grabbed a quick beer with anti-American Mike. He had good news. He's found us rooms in Copenhagen ....

If you look at the left frame of this page you'll see a link called Amsterdam Beer Tours. It's a little sideline of mine. Basically,...

The last couple of years I've visited Britain much more frequently than in the previous two decades. Many of these visits have been beer...

If reader responses are anything to go by, you're just about decoction mashed out. I wondered how long it would take. My money was on th...

This is more like it. Jumping over the Bayerischer Wald into Bohemia. Exciting, isn't it? Well, I'm excited, even if you aren't....

I've finally finished harvesting gravities from the Barclay Perkins logs I have photographed. What next? Pretty obvious, really. Time to...

Catching the international train to Belgium is always fun. If you get on at Amsterdam Centraal. Then you're sure of a seat. Join from Sc...

This week's going to be pretty busy. I've two foreign trips planned. What a globe-trotting jet-setter I am. Until the EBCU recption ...

Gloria Monday's van isn't well. That's what I've heard. Is the writing on the wall for Pils? Will it plummet into obscurity ...

Change. When you get to my age, most change becomes scary. Or terrifying. New stuff keeps appearing. Things like mobile phones and Double IP...

More from "Schule der Bierbrauerei" by Conrad Schneider, 1875, page 300-301. This time it's Altbayern's turn. Will the fun...

What did you do over the weekend? Nice of you to ask. Loads of things. Went into town with Lexie to buy an X-wing Fighter. Read some Barclay...

Sounds impressive, doesn't it, 200 years of data? I have a greater spread of years for Stout than for any other sort of beer. These are ...

I'm so proud. After only two hours of frantic scribbling, I've managed to change my OG to Plato conversion into Plato to OG. You wou...

Not everything I write makes it into the blog. About a quarter of the posts I write remain unused. This one will almost certainly join the ...

It's great fun playing with my mega-gravity table, now that I have some modern stuff in there. I've been looking at Pale Ale this ti...

Today were going to take a look a variation on decoction mashing, Lautermaisch. It's taken from "Schule der Bierbrauerei" by C...

I'm delighted with my choice of Lager as a summer theme. It wasn't something I'd ever looked at in any great detail. I've al...

Now I've got some modern beer details (thanks Ted and Mark) I can start comparing modern beers with those of 50 years ago. I've begu...