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'Zee-tho-fyle', by Martyn Cornell, an award-winning blog about beer now and then, founded in 2007
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The Tipperary’s back but the history is even more confused
Published: March 28, 2024 17:11
The Tipperary pub in Fleet Street, London, has reopened after four years of closure, excellent news, since it’s one of the most attractive little pubs in the City. Planning permission was actually granted in April 2020 for its conversion into office use,…
How much beer did a 19th century farmer-brewer brew?
Published: February 7, 2024 11:51
A fascinating pair of pieces of ephemera, these, because they tells us something about brewing and beer consumption in large households and by farmers, and give a clue as to why farmers who brewed sometimes became actual commercial brewers. The first is a…
A short history of the King’s Walden brewery
Published: September 23, 2023 11:43
Frederick William Fellowes was born in Beighton, between Norwich and Yarmouth in Norfolk, in 1856, one of the 10 children of the Reverend Thomas Lyon Fellowes. Several of his brothers, like their father, entered the church. But in 1872 an older sister,…
If it’s Tuesday, this must be Kölsch – Part Four
Published: August 24, 2023 22:55
Tuesday, and we’re off travelling again, 20 miles south to Roeselare, and the Rodenbach brewery. To me, as a historian of beer and brewing, Rodenbach is a fascinating operation, since it brews well-aged ales in what is almost certainly the same way that…
If it’s Tuesday, this must be Kölsch – Part Three
Published: August 24, 2023 22:41
One of the problems of trying to be a beer tourist in Belgium in July is that many places shut for their annual break. This was the case with Cantillon, Brussels’s oldest surviving lambic brewery, a real working museum of beer, which is why we had to…
If it’s Tuesday, this must be Kölsch – Part Two
Published: August 24, 2023 22:09
Some of the best beer tourism happens in places that are already centres for “ordinary” tourism, with plenty of stuff to see that is nothing to do with beer. That’s what makes Brussels a great place to be a beer tourist. There are many attractions apart…
If it’s Tuesday, this must be Kölsch
Published: August 22, 2023 23:19
How we sophisticated Europeans laughed at American tourists in the 1960s as they raced around our continent on whirlwind holidays in cramped coaches: the Eiffel Tower one day, the canals of Venice the next, Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin the day after. They…
Steam beer from Yukon to Nevada and the strange link with Flat Beer
Published: July 21, 2023 15:52
As the beer world waits to see whether this really is the end for the Anchor brewery in San Francisco, flagship for an entire beer style, a number of commentators have been suggesting – wrongly – that if anyone tries to carry on with Anchor, then it cannot…
A Perfect Day
Published: May 15, 2023 11:24
It was a bright, cold day in April and the clock was striking – well, 7:30am, actually, since I had a 9am appointment to mash in some finest Maris Otter at the Goose Island brewery in Fulton Street, Chicago, and I had decided to walk the three or so miles…
Pale ale: it’s much, much, MUCH older than you think
Published: December 24, 2022 13:22
It’s a curious fact that the expression “pale ale” does not seem to appear in the English language until 1705, in a catalogue of newly published books sold at a shop in Little Britain, a street just off Smithfield. What makes this particularly surprising…