Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
That’s the photo of the week. The storage room at Fuller’s as tweeted by Brewers Journal magazine… or journal, I suppose. There is plenty of beauty to go around in good beer if you remember to have a look. Jordan found a slice of it when jet lagged in an London pub: “How the hell … Continue reading “Even On A Thursday In Mid-August You Need Your Beer News”
June. The middle of June. Or, as we called it as children, the miggle. I am in the middle of a “very important thing” in my “real job” so my attention has been solidly on the hobby news. Jordan said the nicest thing the other day when I mentioned I bought a pair of p’raps … Continue reading “The Mid-June Edition Of Thursday Beer News”
Time. March 2018 is almost gone and I barely noticed it was slipping away. Q2 looms. Which is great as I hate winter but which is not so great as I turn 55 next month. Did I mention that thing about time? Still frigging cold outside, too. That in itself should help you put the … Continue reading “The End Of March Is Already Here And I Do I Have Some Beer News For You!”
Andy Crouch captured the mood with this tweet on Tuesday: We are tired. We are tired of slipping. Of sliding. We are tired of corduroy. [Except me. I’m not hating on the cords – just trying to fit in here – gimme a break.] Otherwise, it’s been a really quite week. Not one brewery has … Continue reading “Your Mid-March Beer News For The Winter That Won’t Go Away”
What can we say about 2017? Not as many celebrity rock star deaths as in 2016, I suppose. And we are not yet into the Putin war years. So, all in all a year to look back upon fondly. It is the time of triumphalist beer pronouncements, whether by blogger or brewer, at bit at … Continue reading “Thursday Beer Links For Year’s End, Hogmanay and New Year’s Eve 2017”
Nosing around the Met‘s digitized collection a bit more, I came across “The Harvesters” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder from 1565. Not hard as it was on the front page. I have posted a few times about paintings by his son, the imaginatively named Pieter Bruegel the Younger, over the years but this one struck me … Continue reading “Beer and Art: The Harvesters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565”
S “Samuel Allsopp & Sons” at pages 712-713 says: “In 1807 Samuel Allsopp bought out the Wilsons and turned Samuel Allsopp & Sons into a public company.” Allsopp’s did not become a public company until its flotation in 1887. In addition, Samuel Allsopp only had one son in 1807, and he was aged two. It … Continue reading “Articles – S”
O “oast house” at page 621 states: “Oast houses, or ‘hop kilns’ as they are also known …” To be more specific, the buildings for drying hops seem to have been called oast houses (from a mostly Southern English dialect word meaning “kiln”) in Kent and Sussex, but hop kilns in Surrey, the West Midlands … Continue reading “Articles – O”
K “Kent, England,” in this entry it states “At its height in the 1870s, hop cultivation claimed more than 31,000 ha (77,000 acres) of the county.” According to “Hops” by AH Burgess of Wye College “English hop acreage reached its peak of 71,789 acres in 1878”. “Kent Golding (hop)” at page 513 states: “The Golding … Continue reading “Articles – K”
I “immigration (effects on brewing)”states on page 476 “The ancient Celts brought brewing to the British Isles when they fled the European continent ahead of advancing tribes in the 5th century AD.” This is completely wrong. Evidence for brewing in Britain dates back to the Neolithic, at least 4000 BC. The Celts arrived in Britain … Continue reading “Articles – I”