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You can’t get much more special than this: a genuine Majority Ale. That is, a beer brewed on the birth of a member of the family, which woul...

Spent my day off - when not answering Alexei's weird questions - transcribing William Younger brewing records from the 1940s. Lots of th...

More WW II-related stuff today. And more Mild-related stuff, too. Call that a double win. For me, if not for you. After WW I, genuine Mi...

Who fancies doing me a favour? There are a couple of brewing records in the Scottish Brewing Archive that I could really do with getting...

My trip to Japan with the kids really knocked a hole in my work on my current book. What with queuing up posts beforhand, the two weeks-odd ...

This is quite a rarity: a newspaper article that mentions a specific brand of beer. Russian Stout, to be specific. A beer unique to Barcla...

Two tie-ins with this recipe. For starters, it's an example of the Whitbread wartime Milds I discussed recently. Secondly, it was bre...

Whitbread’s standard strength Mild, X, changed it’s name early in 1940 from X to XX. Odd, as, while you would expect XX to be stronger tha...

Yeah! Back at work on my next book. Slowly grinding out the words. The trick is not to look at how much still needs to be done, but to c...

In country districts, where often the only Mild a brewery produced was in the 4d class pre-war, the conflict had only minimal effect of be...