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Bored of the fascinating Light Bitter called AK?  Well I fucking am't. Here's yet another recipe for one. Dropping neatly between to...

Wringing the final drops of joy out of a topic is the way I operate.  No escaping from AK just yet. I have multiple breweries' AKs from ...

As promised, here are the Heineken grists. Not that they are particularly exciting. Lots of pilsner malt, a bit of caramel malt and a touch ...

It's not just the Carlsberg records I've not done much with. The same is also true for the Heineken ones I have.  I hadn't even ...

WW I had a lasting impact on Fullers AK. Its gravity dropped from 1044º in 1914 to a nadir of 1026º in 1918 and 1919. After the war, it reco...

As promised, here are Carlsberg's grists from the 1920s. Which turn out to be more interesting than you might expect. No shock that the ...

I've been too diligent in collecting brewing records. That's how I excuse myself for the mountain of unprocessed ones. Including a h...

Weakest of Fullers Pale Ales was my old favourite obsession, AK. Yes, a Pale Ale, not an effing Light Mild. The trouble McMullen have caused...

I'm returning to that article on the Brewing Exhibition of 1879. Because, in addition to foreign Lagers, some local beers were also desc...