Almost healed. The plaster comes of next week.
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Lover of beer and numbers. And cachaca and whisky. And every other alcoholic drink. Visit my bookstore: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/andrewsblag Or my blog, Shut up About Barclay Perkins: https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com
Almost healed. The plaster comes of next week.
07.12.2025 08:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Off to London tomorrow. Beer may be drunk.
06.12.2025 18:44 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Cannon (Ramsgate) beers in 1893-1894.
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No. It's Stock Ale.
04.12.2025 17:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes. That's my Christmas letter written. 1,000 words of festive fun.
03.12.2025 19:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 06.25 barrels Primings 2 barrels old stock 3 barrels vat
Details of Fremlins blending in 1897. The brew was 200 barrels of a 1040ΒΊ Pale Ale, to which was added at racking time:
6.25 barrels Primings
2 barrels old stock
3 barrels vat
A stronger Mild recipe - 1893 Cannon XXX.
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Another Victorian AK recipe - 1884 W.E. & J. Rigden AK
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Are they bottles of Watney's Pale Ale?
28.11.2025 12:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0J.C. Jocobsen writes again. And mentions union sets.
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More Carlsberg correspondence. Including a description of 20-year old London Porter.
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An old Porter recipe from Kent - 1884 W.E. & J. Rigden Porter.
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Been writing lots of recipes for my next book, "Free!". I should hit 400 this week. From 35 different breweries.
25.11.2025 14:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Meet at the Gallows. Such a catchy song.
25.11.2025 13:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Do you think my writing is like stream of consciousness? Can't see it myself.
25.11.2025 11:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Victorian Mild recipe from Kent - 1884 W.E. & J. Rigden Mild Beer.
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Election day boozing.
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Kent hop acreage and yield 1901 - 1909.
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A lovely Light Bitter recipe - 1893 Tomson & Wotton AK.
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Consumption of wine, beer and spirits in 1899.
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Home production vs imports of wine, beer and spirits in 1899.
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More random statistics. Revenue from Alcoholic Beverages 1898-99
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Part of a Heineken Rotterdam brewing record from October 1915. With four brews of Gerste and one of Pils.
Looking through the Amsterdam archives this week downloading pdfs of scanned documents. I noticed a couple were miscatalogued and are actually brewing records. One volume covers part of WW I. Dead handy.
16.11.2025 12:01 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's not close to, it's in some of the Combe brewery buildings.
16.11.2025 11:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of my favourites.
15.11.2025 18:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gift ideas.
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A Scottish Stout recipe - 1903 Binnie XXX Porter.
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(In Dutch) The advantages of canned beer (according to a letter to Heineken in 1936): 1. handier package 2. lighter 3. no deposit 4. no dirty bottles to clean 5. easy to take on journeys
The advantages of canned beer (according to a letter to Heineken in 1936):
1. handier package
2. lighter
3. no deposit
4. no dirty bottles to clean
5. easy to take on journeys
Bottled Indonesian beer after WW II.
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Whitbread big head Trophy Biter.
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