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Considering they didn’t even brew the full gamut of styles – all the Stouts were brewed in London – Truman’s Burton brewery made a crazy s...

More results from my latest archive visit. I'm finally back to writing my new book. Travelling to London, photographing at the archi...

Moaning about the price of beer. It's something old CAMRA twats like me are particularly fond of. But it's a practice far older th...

More fun from Holmes' Brewing Trade Gazette about Belgian brewing in the late 19th century. First a little something about Belgian b...

The strongest Mild Ale flowing from Truman’s Burton brewery remained a powerful beer. Still weighing in at over 5% ABV. At least that’s ...

I should get out more. To archives, not anything crazy like the outdoors. Because I always learn stuff from my visits. The unexpected is wha...

I've been poking around in Holmes' Brewing Trade Gazette, looking for stuff about other countries. Frustratingly, articles about...

Dropping by the London Metropolitan Archives on Monday was a strangely nostalgic experience. Big chunks of my writings are based on docume...

More fruit from this week's archive harvest. The fact that I've been processing the records immediately tells you how much I'd...

The last set of bosts about 19th-century Belgian brewing went down well. So here's another, rather smaller, article. Though this one...

Here's the first fruit from my brewing record harvest earlier this week. It's a lovely watery Mild. I’ll be honest with you: I’m...

I'm just back from a short London trip. Basically an archive run. Though I did meet up up with a few people for a beer or two. I'm n...

This is a sort of companion post to my recent series about Belgian beers in the 19th century. Turns out I have rather more Lambic analys...