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The microbiology of brewing 24 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
As one of Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt microbiologists* I was interested to see a snippet in the newsletter of the Brewery History Society mentioning a freely available 12 page report on brewing microbiolo...
Arrival in Utopia 19 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Utopia, Utopia, Utopia Planet of your wildest dreams Where everybody drives a Cadillac car And the streets are paved with hamburgers And the rivers run with Watney's draught red barrel Utopia, where ...
25 years 14 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Twenty five years ago today Robert Calvert, singer, poet, musician and playwright died. Best known for being in Hawkwind at various times it's no coincidence that these times were when some of their g...
A preemptive post 13 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Just to get in before anyone else I would like to make clear that whatever beer is chosen today as Champion Beer of Britain is wrong. It will be too weak, unless it's too strong, and above all will al...
The Beer Of The Future 12 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
The trouble with predictions is you have to wait to see if they come true. But fortunately the tedious waiting business can be done away with if you manage to dig out old predictions, which is precise...
What a load of bollocks 10 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
I particularly enjoyed the IBD magazine this month, though one article did make me wince. There's a three page feature on Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, a beer made with bull's testicles. You may find ...
A trip to the North Pole 1 Aug 2013 | 02:16 am
We had a pub crawl research trip around Islington the other week. We started at the Craft Beer Co., which unlike most craft beer bars has the benefit of being a pub. Though the definition of craft be...
Seventy Rolling Years by Sydney O Nevile 24 Jul 2013 | 12:30 pm
One thing I remembered from the Ronathon I recently enjoyed was the mention of a book about a brewer's seventy year long career that sounded right up my street. Thanks to the wonders of modern technol...
Bottle bomb? 23 Jul 2013 | 04:52 pm
I recently found out that there's a group of militant french wine makers waging guerrilla warfare. Impressively bonkers, it makes the brewing industry look like a very sober and sensible bunch.
Craft beer revolution predicted in 1924! 19 Jul 2013 | 12:30 pm
That's the American craft beer revolution that emerged from home brewers interested in making tasty beers to be more specific. Rummaging through the archives of the Journal of the Institute of Brewin...
