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I'm hard at work of my book "Stout". So expect lots of Stout recipes in the coming weeks.  Unless I get bored with it, of cour...

Yay! It's been another wonderful year in Beerland. Innovation continues unabated, even if it is mostly in the form of pricing and can de...

So start sharpening your string, sanding your eggs and detoxing your livers. Because it's almost time for my Christmas Drinkalongathon. ...

London brewers were certainly keen on their complicated mashing schemes. They may have finally discovered sparging, but there were still mul...

More shit about London Stout, I'm afraid. This just happens to be what I'm working on at the moment. Outside London, draught Stout w...

Here’s proof that Stout didn’t always imply a dark beer. An example of the pale malt analogue of Brown Stout. It’s a type of beer which must...

The final few years before the Free Mash Tun Act were notable for the decline in popularity of aged beers. That had the most effect on stand...