The history of beer

Well, looking at the rest of the site where this is published, I wouldn’t be too surprised if there are a few inaccuracies here. But on the whole a very useful time line of the history of beer. This would come in handy if I’m asked to a speech about beer.
You’ll find the whole image on [...]

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Around Oslo in 18 beers – part 1

I’ve been planning to make a sort of beer guide to Oslo for some time. There are new places popping up, there are old pubs, restaurants and cafes that are starting to take beer seriously – and there are historical places with a beer connection.
To start off the series, I have picked a place that [...]

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Hops and Glory

Pete Brown’s new book is out on 5 June, chronicling his epic journey from Burton to India.
Hops & Glory – One Man’s Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire. You can pre-order it at half price through amazon in the UK, no dates for any US edition.
More information on his blog, and in [...]

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Two reasons for having a beer

Sure, I could think of more than two if hard pressed, but here we go.
It is St George’s Day. As an anglophile, I ought to observe this.
It is the 493th  birthday of the Reinheitsgebot. The Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV made his decree in Ingoslstadt all those years ago. This means it has, in more recent times, [...]

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Manchester II

Now, this was not one of my beer tours. Well, few of my tours are actually beer tours. They are often business trips where I can fit in an evening or a day of beer at one end. This, on the other hand, was a family tour.
This meant a morning shopping at Marks & Spencer, a [...]

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For the (armchair) traveller

Beer coverage in the New York Times again, this time it’s New Orleans breweries in focus. They call it the once — and possibly future — beer town of the South.
I like the no nonsense approach of the article. This is not beer as an afterthought: Visitors come for a number of things that the [...]

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In search of the lost Irish pubs

Yet another American hack has tried to give a potted history of porter. Let’s just open up for rebuttals for my more scholarly inclined fellow beer bloggers to this:
The credit for inventing porter ordinarily goes to Ralph Harwood of the Bell Brew house in Shoreditch, who developed it around 1722. Before that, En gland’s best- [...]

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Amazing Danes

Look at the number of new beers in Denmark over the years:

1999:      17
2000:      15
2001:      21
2002:      30
2003:      54
2004:      82
2005:    234
2006:    506
2007:    556
2008:    647

According to Peter Myrup Olesen, who has compiled the numbers, the rise is not likely to continue, so 2008 is probably the top.
If your read Danish, he [...]

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Classics

If you want vintage beer photos, BeerBooks.com have a number of them for sale. As well as books on lots of beer-related issues, videos, t-shirts etc.

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Great writing

 
…… I’ve drunk beers literally from around the world I’ve sipped the most expensive and strongest ale, gingerly sipped bottles of IPA from 1860’s, I’ve supped beers fresh from the Brewery with the guy who made it and they were all interesting, tasty and enjoyable but when the skies flat grey and the taxi lights [...]

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