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John Keeling

@fullersjohn.bsky.social

Was a professional drinker now semi-pro

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Fiver is in the post

20.02.2026 08:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My memory says no. I think they had problems achieving final gravity and keeping it infection free. Although my memory is very hazy like the beer nowadays

20.02.2026 08:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I went to see the Drybrough version when I was a student at Heriot-Watt

20.02.2026 08:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He was always good to me and Fullers and very helpful. I will miss him

09.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I never left the old favourites

05.02.2026 16:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

a freeman of the City of London can also unsheathe his weapon without fear of arrest

05.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

a few months is all it takes. It is a constant battle

05.02.2026 09:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

good Head Brewer, perhaps that's the secret to good beer

22.01.2026 08:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very good head brewer

19.01.2026 18:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

my favourite (post Syd) Pink Floyd albums are Obscured by Clouds, Atom Heart Mother and Meddle

18.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

was that featured in a Fall video? Mr Pharmacist I think?

16.01.2026 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Plenty of brewers in the US are good enough to make cask beer its the dispense and distribution side that is the problem.UK has this

12.01.2026 10:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

always prefer London stout/porter

11.01.2026 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is a pic of the rounds and squares at fullers which were in use to about 1984. The famous dropping system

09.01.2026 12:45 — 👍 29    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

I had a very nice pint of Fullers London Porter in the Star Tavern made all the sweeter by my ex-head brewers discount.

08.01.2026 09:51 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

I could understand one for bottling and one for cask but 3 seems strange

05.01.2026 17:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Went to the Constable and Turner exhibition at the Tate today. Well worth it

29.12.2025 17:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Space Xmas tree has gone up. Wish I had a model Fireball XL5 to put on it

12.12.2025 18:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh dear. Very sorry to hear this . His was an opinion I always paid heed to.

08.12.2025 12:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well done

28.11.2025 10:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right I can get dressed now

21.11.2025 09:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

right ive listen to all Pink Floyd up to and including Meddle, think I prefer these to the later ones

20.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Atom heart mother much better than critics say

15.11.2025 13:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Decided to play Pink Floyd today- none of the later stuff though

15.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

These beers are meant to be shared with friends if you have got no friends anyone will do, they soon will be friends

21.10.2025 08:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to my trip to Madrid next week another holiday for me. Enjoying my retirement

28.09.2025 14:59 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

usually very ripe hops had the best aroma

28.09.2025 08:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not something I say very often but I had two nice pints of Youngs this lunchtime

26.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes

26.09.2025 15:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A hero of London brewing

26.09.2025 15:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0