Rob Sterowski

“We have had the police knocking on every door,” said a dog walker and resident of Dean, as a helicopter buzzed overhead. “They wanted the names of everybody living there and details of their social media. I know several people refused. We asked them if they were protecting us, or Vance. At least they were honest and said it is for him and that it will all be passed on to the American security people.”

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Hope the beer didn't get damaged

Mild is on its way back to dominance

Not me :(

It's sweet initially, but then the bitterness builds slowly as you work your way down the glass. That's one of the things I love about it.

A cute baby elephant

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

There's still a cultural divide between corporate software and free software
Corp: "Recover a deleted file"
Free: "VISIT THE SHEETS GRAVEYARD"

Oh wait, now I understand that's what you're doing!

Oh, I thought you were generating it yourself from some sort of big data set of the elevation of every square metre of Scandinavia. Would it be an option to just use the image as a background and superimpose your data on top of that?

I understood about half of that, but it looks very nice and it does emphasise the natural barriers very well. Where does the elevation data come from?

Also, before that year, nobody seems to have brewed a specialty beer just for Oktoberfest before the 1870s, so it was likely all regular Lagerbier/Sommerbier. Unfortunately, the oldest sources for ads of specific beers at Oktoberfest I could find are from 1882.

My understanding is that the term Märzenbier in Munich and Bavaria was synonymous with Lagerbier and Sommerbier, but fell out of use when the Märzenbierlose were discontinued in 1800. It was then only picked up again as essentially a marketing term in 1872.

This brewery seemed much less sinister once I eventually realised that Halve Maan means Half Moon and not Halved Man :)

I thought he was dead.

Wish we could just store up this heat for winter.

Hello Munich, this is what a full Maß looks like, in case you have never seen one.

Once a year, one of the most tranquil places to drink beer is transformed into one of the most raucous

Are you down for Annafest?

In Franken until Saturday

In B itself there are the Schlenkerla beers, not all usually available at once, and Spezial who have one or two. Then there are few little breweries in the region who have one, but you might have to go to their particular village to get them.

Excellent news that 10 Brodog bars are closing. I hope the whole company goes under. The world of beer would be better off if it had never existed. That's it, that's the tweet. Do please quote me.

A bald man with glasses standing in front of Bamberg's Old Town Hall

Today is Rauchbier Preservation Day, and I'm in Bamberg for it. Stay tuned #TagDerBewahrungDesRauchbieres

What makes a great pub? Take everything the big pub companies do: loud music, microwave food, shit beer, renovations that nobody wanted, garish menus all over – and do the opposite.

What was the weird obsession with post codes about that Marstons' marketing people had?

Neil Kinnock never won a single election despite stabbing the miners in the back. I don't know why his opinion is supposed to be worth anything now.

Over the last few years I've been asking everyone I know who has any connection to the hop trade about why so few UK breweries are using the new English hops, and their mood seems to have shifted from concern to anger

Export brewery with many customers, not just a local market.

IS THERE MILD??

Wonderful post. I’ve spent today planning my next Zoigl trip so this comes at just the right time.

It's so cheap that it's worthwhile even for short trips of a few days, but that's not the best thing. The best thing is that you don't have to look for ticket machines, research tariff zones or learn the rules of all-day tickets for every new town. Just get off a train and board a tram or bus.