Tim Holt

What a place, what a beer!

Brewery History Journal issue 195 will have a long paper going through all known first-hand accounts of real stone brewing, 75 individual ones all told. I hope it will settle this "debate" for good.

www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/index.html

News, nuggets and longreads 1 March 2025: The House on the Borderland Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got old mugs, pub crawls, and melancholy reflection.

GOOD MORNING! Here's this week's round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, with notes from Massachusetts, Namur, Gloucestershire, and Isaac Newton's laboratory. 🍺🍻

boakandbailey.com/2025/03/news...

Newton's beer mug

Newton's beer mug rediscovered. Read about it in Notes & Records royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Specific gravity: Isaac Newton’s beer mug found after 350 years Researchers have traced the wooden flagon’s owners back to when the father of modern science was in student digs in Cambridge

And in The Times www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Show off ...

Maybe one more beer ...

Sarah Hughes dark ruby mild. Thank you Mr Marchbanks.

Curtain falls over legendary Brussels pub Au Daringman

Well worth a read: more info on the imminent closure of Au Daringman, Brussels:
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20...

The Godfathers of Beer Consumer Insights - First Key Consulting Russell L. Ackoff and James R. Emshoff's paper "Advertising Research at Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 1968-1974" revolutionized beer marketing by categorizing drinkers into types, such as Reparative and Social...

This spring marks the 50th anniversary of the most important beer marketing paper you’ve probably never heard of. Brand building in beer wouldn't be the same today without the influence of Ackoff and Emshoff. (Free sign up may be required to read.) firstkey.com/the-godfathe...

Saison, Verschueren

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*NEW BOOK* I'm delighted to announce after seven years of research and writing FILTHY QUEENS: A HISTORY OF BEER IN IRELAND is here! Published with Nine Bean Rows, it is available for preorder now. Link in bio.

About the book: In Filthy Queens, we look at the history of beer alongside some of... 🧵

Foersters, Berlin

Still very much worth a visit.

I learnt this from Peter Darby and my research is here: www.breweryhistory.com/journal/arch...

Metzer Eck

111 years of Metzer Eck. Wish I'd been there ...

Beer recirculating through a spray fan onto the yeasty head

Slate Yorkshire squares at Sam Smith's brewery

International Knowledge Transfer and Circulation within the Brewing Industry / Internationaler Wissenstransfer und -zirkulation in der Brauwirtschaft, Verantwortlich: Nancy Bodden und Jana Weiß Volume 65, issue 1 of the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook was published in 2024.

The latest issue of the Economic History Yearbook on International Knowledge Transfer and Circulation within the Brewing Industry is free to access here: www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...

Breweries, save your stuff!

Also look out for 'The Mystique of Running the Public House in EnglandQuest for El Dorado, 1840-1939' by David W. Gutzke coming out in May.

The latest issue of Brewery History is now out. Includes a free to access review of 'Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire' by M.F. Purinton bit.ly/4238pXZ

The latest issue of Brewery History is now out. Includes 'British brewers in North America — George Weatherall Smith', 'An outline of beers and brewing in British Malaya: 1827-1957. Part II' and "Our lager pleases their tastes:" beer at
international expositions, 1873-1900 bit.ly/4238pXZ

The latest issue of Brewery History is now out. Includes 'Danes downunder: an exploration of some Danish
contributions to the brewing industry in Australia
and New Zealand' and 'The mysterious non-alcoholic porter of L'viv' bit.ly/4238pXZ

Pre-order away!

Roscoe's, Portland, OR.