New post on #Fuggled, in which I finally discover whether innoculating a 19th century style London Porter with the dregs of an Orval bottle was worth the 8 year wait...
#homebrew #beerhacking
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Half the beer halls in Munich would be closed down if this was still enforced today.
It could be worse, people could be serving Guinness as a milk tube.
A year after it was introduced, fewer than half of pubco tenants in Scotland are aware they have a right to stock a guest beer: siba.co.uk/2026/04/01/n...
Personally I have nightmares that hipsters will discover Sweetheart Stout and make it fashionable again. It’s really not a good beer.
Is C&C dysfunctional over there? Here they seem to be quite successful in their own terms, dominating the on-trade despite the long term decline of their flagship by quite cleverly supplementing it with more “premium” options.
And your general reminder that the Watney's takeover of Murphy's in the 1960s is the real origin story of Irish red ale. beerfoodtravel.blogspot.com/2021/09/brew...
Shouldn't he have brewed first to have fresh yeast for the baking?
Funny how now if a place specifically calls itself "Public House" you know immediately that someone who just wants a pint of beer is not welcome.
There had been once, but it had mostly died out by the late 19th century.
Cracking tank top too!
I enjoyed that a lot, one of the best Utopian have done IMO
Fyne Ales Farm Brewery, in the Scottish highlands, has been named brewery business of the year, at the SIBA Business Awards, announced at BeerX in Liverpool beertoday.co.uk/2026/03/19/s... #beer #beernews #beerawards
Fortunately, these terrible beers have had almost no impact on my own beer drinking over the last decade.
Tennent's/C&C taking full ownership of Drygate, set up as joint venture with Williams Bros in 2014.
No, I wouldn't be in a place that served beer from drainpipes in the first place.
Thinking about how I usually stick to the classic local styles in Lagerland, but I would always order a new “extra hoppy” beer if they offered one. I probably wouldn’t if they called it an IPA. Funny how the mind works.
I'm guessing you didn't like it?
I think they were at the bitter end of things back in the day. Master brew has 35 IBU in a 3.5% beer. Sheps got PGIs for Kentish ale and Kentish strong ale, with both having bitter in the description.
If Scottish beer was supposedly lightly hopped because of the distance from the hop growing regions, why don’t Shepherd Neame make the bitterest beer in the UK?
Yes I thought Red n Black was very interesting, made the shortlist but not quite the top three :)
Hidden sugars in hops? Another driver of hop creep perhaps. Interesting article (open access)🍻
-The underhopped brown bitter of the past has mostly gone, replaced by “red ale”.
- Lots of new world hops, also a lot of the new wave English hops
- No sludge thank Christ
Last night I finished ticking the 30 Wetherspoons festival beers and my selection of the best three is:
- Acorn Vanilla Porter
- Kirkstall Howe Sound
- Elgoods Shug Monkey
The beer quality was generally pretty good with only a couple I thought were actually bad.
Never fear that Scotland could run out of cringe breweries.
The Catechism of Cliche is still in effect.
Q. What is the name for a fire large enough to require the intervention of the fire brigade?
A. A blaze.
Q. What do firefighters do to such a conflagration?
A. They tackle it.
How the as-splice creates misleading headlines. In fact the train cancellations and evacuations happened several hours before any building collapse. @bbcnews.bsky.social
Sounds like only I&G brand was purchased. If anyone wants the Inveralmond brands with or without the brewery they need to get in touch with the administrators FTI Consulting asap.
Spice bags taste better in Ireland. They don't travel well.
Half way through the #Spoonsfest beers with 14 out of 30 ticked, Elgoods Shug Monkey is the top beer so far despite the more than dubious name. A basic bitter elevated to transcendence by pungent yeast esters and an astringent, addictive bitterness.