Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
Just a bit of a note on how annoying it can be realizing that if you want to find out something you need to know something about the thing you need to find out more about. Not unlike my problems with records or, say, the adjectives of the past. For example, from time to time … Continue reading ““For Drink”: Searching For Something Requires Knowing Something About That Something”
Building on part one of this struggle, let’s consider the passage above again for a minute. It is from volume 7 of The Reliquary, by John Russell Smith, 1867. It looks a lot like the passage by Mott from 1965 that I quoted (poaching as I noted from the Martyn of 2009) in my previous part of this … Continue reading “Struggling Again With 1600s Derbyshire Strong Ale (Part 2… the Son of…)”
I was thinking I needed to write a post about Derby ale. The other week when I wrote this post with a bit more information about some of the other great 1600s strong ales Margate and Northdown and Hull and Lambeth, I knew I needed to have a look at Derby. I even had this lovely … Continue reading “Struggling With 1600s Derbyshire Strong Ale (Pt 1)”
As a lad, before the internet, I was a keener for the BBC World Service. I actually visited the studios at Bush House on the Strand in 1980 on a family holiday and sat in on a Dave Lee Travis show taping. Most evenings I would listen to the shortwave and at the top of the … Continue reading ““No Liquor On Earth Is Like Nottingham Ale!””
To the right you will see a passage from The Life of John Locke from 1876 that includes a quotation from a letter written by the philosopher in 1679. These is plenty to unpack from the passage but for present purposes I want to consider the bits about beer as it provides an excellent means … Continue reading “A 1679 Classification Of Beer By John Locke”
In 1807, a correspondent who went by the name “The Plain Dealer” wrote a letter to the editor of The Morning Chronicle on the topic of joint stock companies: SINCE my last letter a number of new projects have been announced to the public, and some of them of great magnitude…. Let us begin with … Continue reading “The British Ale Brewery, A Joint Stock Company In 1807”