tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25580506356054136162024-03-18T03:03:47.313+00:00Ed's Beer SiteA site where a man with far too much interest in beer gets to write about it.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comBlogger1126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-12380666221589710942024-02-11T10:00:00.001+00:002024-02-11T10:00:00.437+00:00Finally visiting Sarah<p><b>I'd waited a long time for this. </b>It was over thirty years ago that I first drank Sarah Hughes Original Dark Ruby Mild. I think they've dropped the "Original" from the name since then, but <i>as I now know </i>the locals simply call it "Ruby".</p><p>I have an 1990 programme from Farnham Beerex where I can see as a teenage beer bore I ticked it off:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdf2SdpjwCUkgy9KCtBphSC_n6UXlvVNouh3sTsuSKClcbZ6FvFSTx3kPNlERRYDl22a-VX6jFUaFBMQ3hGdpRruhtESx7myaoZYdYBTdRVCi3cxBm84rvsTFR6f6Zwyl-a1jJ3VaDB2eDZZYWt5jK-tNwcg1lT6fOADq5gZeLVYrCPL5-BcULECnQYEUY/s2064/beerex%201990.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1548" data-original-width="2064" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdf2SdpjwCUkgy9KCtBphSC_n6UXlvVNouh3sTsuSKClcbZ6FvFSTx3kPNlERRYDl22a-VX6jFUaFBMQ3hGdpRruhtESx7myaoZYdYBTdRVCi3cxBm84rvsTFR6f6Zwyl-a1jJ3VaDB2eDZZYWt5jK-tNwcg1lT6fOADq5gZeLVYrCPL5-BcULECnQYEUY/s320/beerex%201990.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />I doubt I'd had it before then, and they'd only started brewing it a few years earlier in '87 anyway. I'm still a fan of the beer to this day and if I see it at a beer festival I'll drink it. I'd never actually got round to visiting the pub it's brewed in though. Over the years I have thought about it a few times and even looked in to accommodation but never actually pulled my finger out and made the trip. So when I saw work was taking me to Wolverhampton it was in fact to Sedgley that my thoughts turned. It's not blessed with a lot of accommodation so it's in Dudley that I ended up, a bus ride from my ultimate goal. <p></p><p>I had another stop before that though. Pubs have a depressing tendency to close if not "spontaneously" combust so I made sure the route to my hotel took the past <a href="https://whatpub.com/pubs/DUD/3215/old-swan-netherton">Ma Pardoes</a> (The Old Swan) in Netherton. This is one of the few pubs that still brewed its own beer when CAMRA was formed and cask beer was saved. It has had <a href="https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/dudley/netherton/2022/10/26/lifeline-for-historic-ma-pardoes-pub-after-landlords-closed-by-christmas-warning/">hard times recently</a> so really it's the duty of anyone in the area to call in. It's a cracking pub too.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVncVUnlWk4cRJwVL6JT6sPhTlMxFaq-_crMgHqSRmlf8BZzGPYr4LXZvATR8aJnRvtUwnF9o6o-4hd0tYR-2OB9WWoh_M-AfNzc__zDmFjzB2FIYMQeTHKfj5yXQoRmJfW7umqQDEFts3ZAVccWR8VPp8PAgpHghJ988SPYixWJof1qCePL1zOFECGODQ/s4896/DSC04635.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVncVUnlWk4cRJwVL6JT6sPhTlMxFaq-_crMgHqSRmlf8BZzGPYr4LXZvATR8aJnRvtUwnF9o6o-4hd0tYR-2OB9WWoh_M-AfNzc__zDmFjzB2FIYMQeTHKfj5yXQoRmJfW7umqQDEFts3ZAVccWR8VPp8PAgpHghJ988SPYixWJof1qCePL1zOFECGODQ/s320/DSC04635.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I had a pint of the Original, a beer of modest strength, which was for the best really as I was driving and was on a mission for the rest of the evening. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNCgWSSFsOeTmk6LiFf4QGVYaTtioHm3mCdphh6j3lUWenw2sgAkeI37Q1gAWqSnvIDSo1vyDca4XfjeXSL13bR41cihBq6JhGtTcrcWiVLbaVsoPQztGTCdKPUX6b_cclSh2rwo6qFcEl_1t1hgwX644Sig7Tar2rpxHwwIcqD_vebVkYgNaz0ijDzZRa/s4080/IMG_20240205_172423692.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNCgWSSFsOeTmk6LiFf4QGVYaTtioHm3mCdphh6j3lUWenw2sgAkeI37Q1gAWqSnvIDSo1vyDca4XfjeXSL13bR41cihBq6JhGtTcrcWiVLbaVsoPQztGTCdKPUX6b_cclSh2rwo6qFcEl_1t1hgwX644Sig7Tar2rpxHwwIcqD_vebVkYgNaz0ijDzZRa/s320/IMG_20240205_172423692.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Once I got to my hotel room I checked the bus times and was off out in minutes as one was on its way. This did mean I got to the <a href="https://sarahhughesbrewery.co.uk/">Beacon Hotel</a> without eating but did that stop me charging in for a pint? Oh no!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW_MCOf6wXd6M5xrHlXm5OfsboJhd9MF9JyFcSy34aPAMESptBUQC2u7UH5n11AwxzwVt6KzcX9sCm0JW4_1SHgvjr0WPn6SqZJZC06Ulytb8fh4YXlx2ke5xHdcuNDx6aLjK8trCNtso-QCl46NiArs0Rxcpt0pJvxq7DfovYtrUjgeoIovLhTriedO12/s4896/DSC04638.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW_MCOf6wXd6M5xrHlXm5OfsboJhd9MF9JyFcSy34aPAMESptBUQC2u7UH5n11AwxzwVt6KzcX9sCm0JW4_1SHgvjr0WPn6SqZJZC06Ulytb8fh4YXlx2ke5xHdcuNDx6aLjK8trCNtso-QCl46NiArs0Rxcpt0pJvxq7DfovYtrUjgeoIovLhTriedO12/s320/DSC04638.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />The building is quite unassuming from the front and advertises wines and spirits. Wonderful interior though, with a little serving hatch in the room I ended was in. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEq1rbZOEmINAkKFipAwov-hNgmKpah9zSxr8xFn-jmAOcEZn4APEAHBQCOnWRx7g5wNVd5WKMDFmLNUmgbKgAIg9s0hGRMCo7l0dW2p5qnxrBGXhi6HHcfYyUI8XyxKVxtftojnVrtdR71sVuhsTqtxfEKLR02SV1EP039eiDWwcfLqK_pC-5eop3iQZ5/s4080/IMG_20240205_185248258.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEq1rbZOEmINAkKFipAwov-hNgmKpah9zSxr8xFn-jmAOcEZn4APEAHBQCOnWRx7g5wNVd5WKMDFmLNUmgbKgAIg9s0hGRMCo7l0dW2p5qnxrBGXhi6HHcfYyUI8XyxKVxtftojnVrtdR71sVuhsTqtxfEKLR02SV1EP039eiDWwcfLqK_pC-5eop3iQZ5/s320/IMG_20240205_185248258.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>After my first pint of Ruby I nipped across the road to the chippy. The beer is 6% so best not drunk on an empty stomach. Then it was back for more. After finally getting there I wasn't stopping at one! It's great pub with great beer. More people were drinking Ruby than anything else as well despite the strength.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAlJ_wV6aASWGgG4eTTr8aJ5u231IggwSCHUwmeCiQK3rmmd1ggeuLOaTF-64gzGzNaq1khc259vIgeqnzCkxJZ1Wl1AuszXaBDAD8QDDtfZcRPNUXBe6wKAf32V5d5TnJAerWwBGUIFxIbQa06RMn9TnPN8kdH1RqeNqiVfJZypLyAD9K2w9JASiXJSnX/s4080/IMG_20240205_192802723.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAlJ_wV6aASWGgG4eTTr8aJ5u231IggwSCHUwmeCiQK3rmmd1ggeuLOaTF-64gzGzNaq1khc259vIgeqnzCkxJZ1Wl1AuszXaBDAD8QDDtfZcRPNUXBe6wKAf32V5d5TnJAerWwBGUIFxIbQa06RMn9TnPN8kdH1RqeNqiVfJZypLyAD9K2w9JASiXJSnX/s320/IMG_20240205_192802723.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The closest I got the brewery was the brew house door so I really need to get planning another visit, and not wait so long next time!<br /><p><br /></p></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-214288914457034662023-12-31T11:57:00.000+00:002023-12-31T11:57:48.502+00:00Golden Pints 2023<p><b>It's that time of year again.</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMMzFh5m1PlrN3-Rt065zenXKIfcyj8qrroHdoAKHt_sN9F_V9DAy4UhVqypyWjzvSuZqPcFfokOIt3NqkdN7IG95Q6_LlW8OM8ogwyS1JHrmhCiIVC9RtHePiQ2D5HEfrZh2puG3A4qJ1m1RGEAEuOYYg-dhSv2Ea8eflIuhZQjDicgrpDymZBCNzlMX/s320/golden%20pints.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMMzFh5m1PlrN3-Rt065zenXKIfcyj8qrroHdoAKHt_sN9F_V9DAy4UhVqypyWjzvSuZqPcFfokOIt3NqkdN7IG95Q6_LlW8OM8ogwyS1JHrmhCiIVC9RtHePiQ2D5HEfrZh2puG3A4qJ1m1RGEAEuOYYg-dhSv2Ea8eflIuhZQjDicgrpDymZBCNzlMX/s1600/golden%20pints.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Best UK Cask Beer:</b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-25687903727045498" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;">As the <i>Craft Beer </i>revolution seems to have run it's course I was pleased to see cask beer was becoming more prominent again at the Beer Writers dinner. Fuller's Vintage Ale and Gale's Prize Old Ale both served as god intended! Marvellous. Which one though? Let's go with Prize Old Ale as my mate Henry was behind its current revival. </div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-25687903727045498" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best UK Keg Beer:</b></span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">Hmmm...yes, definitely suckled at the devil's drainpipe this year. The best though? Oh yes, Queer Brewing barley wine. <br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best UK Bottled Beer:</b></span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">Armagnac barrel aged Thomas Hardy Ale. Lovely, lovely, lovely. . <br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best UK Canned Beer</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">My favourite sister got me some cans from a nano brewery for xmas which I must confess did fill me with fear. Cans from a nano brewery I thought, what's the dissolved oxygen on that? But my fears were unfounded and the beers are lovely so Middle Child Party on the naughty step. </span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best Overseas Draught</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span>That would be one of the 8% Budějovický beers guzzled from the conditioning tank. :-)</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-25687903727045498" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best Overseas Bottled Beer</b>:</span><br /><br />What have I had this year? Not sure so I'll play it safe and go with Orval.<br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best Overseas Canned Beer</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">They've started selling Sierra Nevada beers in the shop at work and the Celebration IPA was very good. </span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best collaboration brew</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span>Have I had any? Not that I can remember. <br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best Overall Beer</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">Prize Old Ale</span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best Branding</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">Not really my thing this so I'll just go with whatever <a href="https://www.toomuchblackcoffee.com/#/053204149098/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Too Much Black Coffe</a>e have done for Thurstons again. . <br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best UK Brewery</b>: </span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">Taking the unprecedented step of swerving from my beer choices and I'm going for Coniston as I had a great time visiting there. Great beers too. <br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best Overseas Brewery</b>: </span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span>Sierra Nevada<br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best New Brewery Opening 2023</b></span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">Can't think of one.</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Pub/Bar of the Year</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Pub/The-crown-horsell-158268267558432/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">The Crown</a> again. I bet there aren't many pubs that will have a Sing-along-a-Wicker-Man night!</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best New Pub/Bar Opening 2023</b></span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">Can't think of one of these either. </span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Beer Festival of the Year</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">GBBF. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth from me when I heard there won't be one next year. I didn't do the rending of clothes though as it was a bit parky for that. </span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Supermarket of the Year</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">I don't buy much bottled or canned beer currently as I can blag them from work. I did do some stocking up when I was near a Booths though which makes them the winners. </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-25687903727045498" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Independent Retailer of the Year:</b></span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.cobbettsrealales.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Cobbett's Real Ale</a> is handy when I'm in need of something special so they're this years winner. </span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Online Retailer of the Year</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">Not my sort of thing either but I did get sent a case of beer by Gadd's so them. </span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best Beer Book or Magazine</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span>There can be only one winner this year: Desi Pubs by David Jesudason. Amazing stuff he's been writing and I got so into the book I managed to miss a train stop!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Best Beer Blog or Website</b>:</span><br /> </div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-25687903727045498" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;">This year it's Shut Up About Barclay Perkins.<br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><b>Simon Johnson Award for Best Beer Twitterer</b>:</span><br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span>Sadly the decline of twitter is continuing but I think Jessica Mason has been best for news this year so @drinksmaven<br /><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif"><br /></span><br /></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-34718765631059274692023-12-17T12:53:00.000+00:002023-12-17T12:53:33.919+00:00A visit to Coniston Brewery<p><b>Back in the Summer (mid-October) I took the </b><b>opportunity of being in the Lake District to visit <a href="https://www.conistonbrewery.com/">Coniston Brewery</a></b>. I have a work connection that was dead handy for getting in touch with Ian Bradley who runs the company. I'd been keen to visit for some time so I'm glad I finally got round to it. The brewery has won the highest award for its beers, The Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB), not once but twice, and with two (2) different beers.</p><p>The brewery has the cramped look so popular with breweries and the 10bbl brewing vessels are wooden clad. Whole hops are used, which have to be dug out of the copper by hand. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTbq8D3akKqKplxakpcXVgbyMAanNr-YJoAmT0c9oBlL8v2Fwt7Fvg4VxGfjMORvovttI6uDeLYcKQNTct-KT6PGcpS2Azh_n3-0fdGCgWBE_dz7ZwjHjO-dnsCud9XBKHt60c-gZuynLcGa6aYLv2-beS2P6EXxw5NCa4eU3nhVmNzvnSF75EouNW8Tg_/s4896/DSC04557.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTbq8D3akKqKplxakpcXVgbyMAanNr-YJoAmT0c9oBlL8v2Fwt7Fvg4VxGfjMORvovttI6uDeLYcKQNTct-KT6PGcpS2Azh_n3-0fdGCgWBE_dz7ZwjHjO-dnsCud9XBKHt60c-gZuynLcGa6aYLv2-beS2P6EXxw5NCa4eU3nhVmNzvnSF75EouNW8Tg_/s320/DSC04557.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfuQ9zW_0o_DmsOX6k0VzKxDT2N5zTWEE_kjzbrySkjsFEqVoAiYdNOlgum2FW7bxepFcnbtGTC6PC8M3tA5sOaNQUnHOcs-g6kNque4EtGaR-Est5w7CIQCWsvucMIHYfG4duw7-w5YmKfeveT1IHQsRLKns3JJeZI8ERAnF5wk9_BFKR3k93qfJePhB/s4896/DSC04558.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfuQ9zW_0o_DmsOX6k0VzKxDT2N5zTWEE_kjzbrySkjsFEqVoAiYdNOlgum2FW7bxepFcnbtGTC6PC8M3tA5sOaNQUnHOcs-g6kNque4EtGaR-Est5w7CIQCWsvucMIHYfG4duw7-w5YmKfeveT1IHQsRLKns3JJeZI8ERAnF5wk9_BFKR3k93qfJePhB/s320/DSC04558.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZSb5k5WKGmsb0Jq3XcVE32NJ3kXdp6jdjMonrDL-pl0TA3oG_z5SeiqJmzKFqeuiIY3SRVNbuxqmC8nlI_dhBaxSZgryp-b4l0rlBRXxokq9Bvcu-YtMH4fjfVS19gTXMzsGGCwAiHNGWEF7qHSEbjx_ZttsB3B66VJpqZkXwnjbQ-b1BxRVEUSHBIMI/s4896/DSC04563.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZSb5k5WKGmsb0Jq3XcVE32NJ3kXdp6jdjMonrDL-pl0TA3oG_z5SeiqJmzKFqeuiIY3SRVNbuxqmC8nlI_dhBaxSZgryp-b4l0rlBRXxokq9Bvcu-YtMH4fjfVS19gTXMzsGGCwAiHNGWEF7qHSEbjx_ZttsB3B66VJpqZkXwnjbQ-b1BxRVEUSHBIMI/s320/DSC04563.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Don't put your head too close</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfPD1VS1VX7VIBQ9jdyrc8H-UNlppwo_08xG94GQZTwvdVEAqmZBu4Jyf2meuGNy44sJd7kf_RbJsDU1bb0C1lc9hpQuoB1Y-u4PlUAV5vZEpQSg9_MgS9UK5o8bEEOn1TU3PUCBuJLJXUL7dBhiBHp1aNArWuf1T3C2a2A-3FlIFw_pPqILjTI8BmU5Y_/s4896/DSC04561.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfPD1VS1VX7VIBQ9jdyrc8H-UNlppwo_08xG94GQZTwvdVEAqmZBu4Jyf2meuGNy44sJd7kf_RbJsDU1bb0C1lc9hpQuoB1Y-u4PlUAV5vZEpQSg9_MgS9UK5o8bEEOn1TU3PUCBuJLJXUL7dBhiBHp1aNArWuf1T3C2a2A-3FlIFw_pPqILjTI8BmU5Y_/s320/DSC04561.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Fermenting Bluebird (CBoB 1998)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The conditioning tanks (CTs) are shinier and all hard piped in. One of them contains No. 9 Barley Wine (CBoB 2012) which is brewed just once a year. <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSCFgdDFPIb2P2sDI9vP0CNfxB1uvM4bpXf0gCj-8RshNtvRbOOApUrsbcrK304L_gdlaSZ_KTwkwUvL7s4Lg4AoW9uip6J2ZLYOpmSV9bDua693BetNyS8cQtltzzlik8rXvoMkkit32s4sZQ9qRZz4XQmg9fvG_mglVDoJlVVo6jXH_W8TFYpJ6SiFsE/s4896/DSC04565.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSCFgdDFPIb2P2sDI9vP0CNfxB1uvM4bpXf0gCj-8RshNtvRbOOApUrsbcrK304L_gdlaSZ_KTwkwUvL7s4Lg4AoW9uip6J2ZLYOpmSV9bDua693BetNyS8cQtltzzlik8rXvoMkkit32s4sZQ9qRZz4XQmg9fvG_mglVDoJlVVo6jXH_W8TFYpJ6SiFsE/s320/DSC04565.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The CTs have their own CIP (Clean in Place) set too!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJCVvIqU383vVpTXP2Q-ODo3708cXasZA7LPve_m6I6QcZjsQ6WWJVRpJGhqF1G4AK0u6FLIAqAHr8TSuBzLjmJ9BP-fOeHmPx5_Q_t1848itm9ZLdVYJjxqki1kZF_bZalVTKT1WHf5HykWd-fGLjLE7goQYizbULo0wtGPoavX3DfSF9xFtB1m5ZpkiE/s4896/DSC04566.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJCVvIqU383vVpTXP2Q-ODo3708cXasZA7LPve_m6I6QcZjsQ6WWJVRpJGhqF1G4AK0u6FLIAqAHr8TSuBzLjmJ9BP-fOeHmPx5_Q_t1848itm9ZLdVYJjxqki1kZF_bZalVTKT1WHf5HykWd-fGLjLE7goQYizbULo0wtGPoavX3DfSF9xFtB1m5ZpkiE/s320/DSC04566.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Bottled beer is also available.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOH52NW9wbdn0-gDSwOglAApRoA-AShiVl7sB_F-VzMlQy-ONkELoMV4IWl9PtYI2_D4yE933ghzweeRsSPw1K_thnkVo1jeCXUNnWcMYNcbaZqvUKKgXTtdA9QNl84vIsNncIL2LX6BQ3giy0GIL2hk3EZS3BzGtP62Q-eQpk_B4h2B35EkC2Mua1VMd/s4080/IMG_20231011_141049617.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOH52NW9wbdn0-gDSwOglAApRoA-AShiVl7sB_F-VzMlQy-ONkELoMV4IWl9PtYI2_D4yE933ghzweeRsSPw1K_thnkVo1jeCXUNnWcMYNcbaZqvUKKgXTtdA9QNl84vIsNncIL2LX6BQ3giy0GIL2hk3EZS3BzGtP62Q-eQpk_B4h2B35EkC2Mua1VMd/s320/IMG_20231011_141049617.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p>The brewery is located behind The Black Bull, where bottles of Bluebird (CBoB) the tell us the beer is best served in s straight pint glass at 58°F. We put this to the test and I have to say the bottle's not wrong. Ian looked after us extremely well, not only keeping us well supplied with beer but giving us t-shirts too! We worked our way across the range up to the barley wine, which is not something you often see on draught. One of my friends hadn't drunk barley wine before and was mightily impressed. </p><p><br /></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_SRa23V1dptoEbzGcl21lYzaYbsDnry5hz_cCj3u6IZTcNEd0BkPr0CzgXbWOBQtRL91L6wCHWWFpEVppGQnybf8F5GS6Ub43M-kSiinWyW1MU0iNSg93rmKr4AXt-CQtLmL_Rlk2-tX63A4mYbIlk4PMmU2kyGDWkDMdJiLXuixp5B0Jayrq_7sel982/s4080/IMG_20231011_143459400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_SRa23V1dptoEbzGcl21lYzaYbsDnry5hz_cCj3u6IZTcNEd0BkPr0CzgXbWOBQtRL91L6wCHWWFpEVppGQnybf8F5GS6Ub43M-kSiinWyW1MU0iNSg93rmKr4AXt-CQtLmL_Rlk2-tX63A4mYbIlk4PMmU2kyGDWkDMdJiLXuixp5B0Jayrq_7sel982/s320/IMG_20231011_143459400.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br />And even better the other friend I was with was driving so there was no trouble getting poured home. <br /><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-71513391316193027072023-09-21T09:00:00.004+01:002023-09-21T09:29:53.968+01:00Cask - the real story of Britain's unique beer culture by Des De Moor<b>A new book about cask beer, the pinnacle of the brewing art, what's not to like? </b>And yet despite my love of cask beer I must confess I had concerns about <a href="https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product/cask-the-real-story-of-britains-unique-beer-culture/">CAMRA's new publication</a>.<div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoohJ29ccBabp6PEjo4mDpDNmcwOEEw_EY4UMLoETzXZJ6kDDUFSrqMgd_7A-ClF1sdhupHiIEMgkAYA7zGPKFmV6LXxnrjVmjGYsG1FWtK_vCeM6FkQ27-bi-Z3SdnZ5WZ-i4USMuledk5s516VDZJJgW7vNxhRnUOFpwAVkW9K6EG49EwOng8RXScq39/s4080/IMG_20230920_203757681.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoohJ29ccBabp6PEjo4mDpDNmcwOEEw_EY4UMLoETzXZJ6kDDUFSrqMgd_7A-ClF1sdhupHiIEMgkAYA7zGPKFmV6LXxnrjVmjGYsG1FWtK_vCeM6FkQ27-bi-Z3SdnZ5WZ-i4USMuledk5s516VDZJJgW7vNxhRnUOFpwAVkW9K6EG49EwOng8RXScq39/s320/IMG_20230920_203757681.jpg" width="241" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><div><br /><div>The author Des De Moor had previously written an article about hating pubs which had <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2020/05/love-beer-love-pubs.html">disastrous consequences on a global scale</a> and certainly made me question if he was the best person to write the book. Pubs and cask beer are as close as lips and teeth so surely someone what hates pubs is no lover of cask beer?</div></div><div><p></p><p>So it was with an inquisitorial eye that I read the book. It covers a lot of ground, including many things I've researched myself so it's good to see it gathered together in a publication. It starts with details of how beer is made, packaged and dispensed. The latter surprisingly has autovacs, where beer from the drip tray is recycled, getting a positive write up! I have a morbid fascination with myself but really they are just minging. </p><p>Cask is then compared to other lesser packaging and dispense formats before moving on to beer tasting and beer styles. This drifts away from cask beer and goes into foreign territory, discussing amongst others things Czech and German lagers, but strangely not mentioning their <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2016/07/finally-in-forchheim.html">unfiltered and naturally carbonated</a> forms, which surely is the closest cask equivalents. </p><p>Food pairing follows, though once again crisps are overlooked, before going back to the prehistory of beer and working back forward to the present day. There's a lot on a subject dear to my heart, <i>Brettanomyces </i>and secondary fermentations, though I don't agree with some of the conclusions reached: that original IPAs weren't real ale and cask beer is a relatively modern invention. </p><p><i>Cask </i>is a large and comprehensive book about beer but despite it's subtitle it is not <i>the real story of Britain's unique beer culture</i>. There is hardly any mention of pubs at all and culture only really comes up in terms of yeast cultures! It's more a big book about beer and cask's place within it. Technically it is generally sound, the main problems were as I'd feared of a spiritual nature. </p><p>As a man of simple faith I have had trouble adjusting to the ecumenical times we live in. I understand we should try and avoid offending heathens by denigrating the emissions of the devil's drainpipe, but our <a href="https://camra.org.uk/">Mother Church</a> still rightly teaches that cask beer is the pinnacle of the brewers art. So when Des wrote "Cask beer was already Britain's lager" I did think <strike>fuck off, bollocks, you're a cunt</strike> this is a poor analogy and out of step with with the detailed research present on other matters. </p><p>We're also told that the problem with keg beer when CAMRA was formed was not that it was keg, but that it was bad keg. This is making the common mistake that the opposite of good beer is bad beer. Those of us with that follow the one true faith know that the opposite of good beer is in fact <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2023/08/expound-good-and-evil.html">evil beer</a>*. And later we see just how evil as Des confesses that "it's undoubtedly true that craft keg has abstracted volumes from cask". Even a godless heathen will realise that this is bad news for cask beer so I would have expected to see more concern about it in a book called Cask. The promiscuity of "repertoire drinking", where people are not faithful to one drink type, may no longer be anathematized but every pint of keg drunk is a pint of cask not sold.</p><p>Inevitably the reactionary position that cask beer should be more expensive is promoted, though to be fair opposing voices are heard. In the final section the author seems intensely relaxed about cask beer becoming a niche product but I can't help but wonder how much poorer the world of beer would be if our church's founding fathers had felt the same. Fortunately they founded a church militant, a campaigning organisation, and we must not tire in our constant struggle to promote beer served as god intended. </p><p>The book contains a lot of good information but its theological shortcomings mean it can't be recommended to the general public and should only read by CAMRA members in good standing. </p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* Yes I did gratuitously write that blog post purely so that if I ever got round to writing this review I could link to it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-42925989304720382612023-09-05T08:27:00.006+01:002023-09-05T08:33:31.005+01:00Castlehill Compleator<p><b>Some people keep score of the number of different beers they've drunk, and others tick off pubs in the Good Beer Guide</b>. But how many have done the <a href="https://castlehillcrawl.uk/">Castlehill Crawl</a> eh? Me and my mate Si that's who. </p><p>In fact we even stopped at a warm up pub, The Kingston Arms, <i>before we'd even started. </i>Oh yes. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiotZcpgoG2YyJwd0B9CUUSlZFMlUYRxepWTvcNcUkS9a2p8akOQiZFk3P-6Fr8utZug9LUou4x6J0b7BaR90y_QftYc89ONnK4Bn1nZDYyHe07TlWmEOT7c_li0nToarYq8I8ByH7RzvXsgrQidSJ8hnq7NgaRkV-RWK_CTKLEkrtE1-mgmOE02FmdBrpn/s4080/IMG_20230827_170922720_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiotZcpgoG2YyJwd0B9CUUSlZFMlUYRxepWTvcNcUkS9a2p8akOQiZFk3P-6Fr8utZug9LUou4x6J0b7BaR90y_QftYc89ONnK4Bn1nZDYyHe07TlWmEOT7c_li0nToarYq8I8ByH7RzvXsgrQidSJ8hnq7NgaRkV-RWK_CTKLEkrtE1-mgmOE02FmdBrpn/s320/IMG_20230827_170922720_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Swerved the Bass mind</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>We passed the old Dale's brewery on the way, closed by Whitbread in 1958. Whitbread were so fond of closing breweries they even sold off their own in the end.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhnXdssNbYlYBPsbbM-YLpi6QMghh1vR25c-GYvZnVLzC-DtnISTfBGoExY9Tpx-vt_N8L4ddZmBzLjMthQq7nFnF3ulnMkWe7QeO6njh7xw1Eput6mcSeJ7p8TeVJIesxuJsyzM12X9-9y1o1keRReCFZKdk0Lm9_ICbqZKgPVBB8csBIoUkG-b0fxVG/s4080/IMG_20230827_173143712.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhnXdssNbYlYBPsbbM-YLpi6QMghh1vR25c-GYvZnVLzC-DtnISTfBGoExY9Tpx-vt_N8L4ddZmBzLjMthQq7nFnF3ulnMkWe7QeO6njh7xw1Eput6mcSeJ7p8TeVJIesxuJsyzM12X9-9y1o1keRReCFZKdk0Lm9_ICbqZKgPVBB8csBIoUkG-b0fxVG/s320/IMG_20230827_173143712.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div>We passed over the bridge from the Town bit to the Gown bit for our first official stop: The Pickerel. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindcqKVSrkzvOiZBJLK4TalgOywKtT2pQFaIobmOujlYWC7lh_dgdBSgff2KW64Xw07Twz1_rX0XxPSDBGW13hWYiB-4tqJDwJ4of4A0Neish7YTrXDuZ4uDuxvl7ljQatEZiHsOiZDWW4TDC6BmBiItVdkTjyid9jDe5_RMB3VPTWUI6vN1KgiQyY6Bqo/s4080/IMG_20230827_180105652.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindcqKVSrkzvOiZBJLK4TalgOywKtT2pQFaIobmOujlYWC7lh_dgdBSgff2KW64Xw07Twz1_rX0XxPSDBGW13hWYiB-4tqJDwJ4of4A0Neish7YTrXDuZ4uDuxvl7ljQatEZiHsOiZDWW4TDC6BmBiItVdkTjyid9jDe5_RMB3VPTWUI6vN1KgiQyY6Bqo/s320/IMG_20230827_180105652.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was dead posh round here, the Cambridge universities having more money than you can shake a stick at. Cask beer was selling well though so well done students and tourists!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Stop two for us was the Castle Inn, an Adnams pub but I went for the beer from Cambridge Moonshine brewery and I'm delighted to say it was the beer of the day!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoBrZv43Hey8Fu5xAF2DxIzOJyczAp0TiNYJyk2Rxr77qMNsx8JWgUS-umTpAf6_1XZPJUeyOuGOYEyh7Vv0BAXpDW7_frnGbfoLnqF6SfPpEQ7UfZzKbyyExYtiYQyfC7Yj7jZ7jis0HQBHMAK0YQlhxo8OV9vOgQiHmcNRa-fRrwE1rqyDxTv5BW635C/s4080/IMG_20230827_182448515_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoBrZv43Hey8Fu5xAF2DxIzOJyczAp0TiNYJyk2Rxr77qMNsx8JWgUS-umTpAf6_1XZPJUeyOuGOYEyh7Vv0BAXpDW7_frnGbfoLnqF6SfPpEQ7UfZzKbyyExYtiYQyfC7Yj7jZ7jis0HQBHMAK0YQlhxo8OV9vOgQiHmcNRa-fRrwE1rqyDxTv5BW635C/s320/IMG_20230827_182448515_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was a big pub and we sat in the beer garden, which a helpful sign you could only see from the beer garden told you about. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBjEioIg5W6DiSbgmJnvqe6u8ZMNxJis9CQNvnj-8vE-0_CKd-UCXhL27B2MLXTwkt3NezivEpdDS9XXms-BO8VAFON3y_lScbKeKGXlkcWm1lC70ubVbZpjBXh0F6R8cT5dRGQy_aPhkTZQVNaIcyvtoTDh5m-ehzD9HtK7Gz1RgYD_2HpXiwfQ370gO/s4080/IMG_20230827_183321336.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBjEioIg5W6DiSbgmJnvqe6u8ZMNxJis9CQNvnj-8vE-0_CKd-UCXhL27B2MLXTwkt3NezivEpdDS9XXms-BO8VAFON3y_lScbKeKGXlkcWm1lC70ubVbZpjBXh0F6R8cT5dRGQy_aPhkTZQVNaIcyvtoTDh5m-ehzD9HtK7Gz1RgYD_2HpXiwfQ370gO/s320/IMG_20230827_183321336.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Think it through lads</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The Architect opposite followed, Cambridge's first dedicated fish and chips and pie and mash bar. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ZaJ9QL3oXgzoQvnV9o3MnKPAe3zZJqEUDvFKPvTco3o3NZC264PJiB0bcMT52Xcq-4I7V6Hea4uNDpxaIHjU_VO503sALCiw34l1Twct3ZDmZkJFFC49IZmC4WIlF5uJAxlweAXoOclB29YHIDpfr03IydTW_J7b2Plm7XkJLRjedGMMLATjaWFJWHvz/s4080/IMG_20230827_191414301_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ZaJ9QL3oXgzoQvnV9o3MnKPAe3zZJqEUDvFKPvTco3o3NZC264PJiB0bcMT52Xcq-4I7V6Hea4uNDpxaIHjU_VO503sALCiw34l1Twct3ZDmZkJFFC49IZmC4WIlF5uJAxlweAXoOclB29YHIDpfr03IydTW_J7b2Plm7XkJLRjedGMMLATjaWFJWHvz/s320/IMG_20230827_191414301_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Yes, I thought that was a bit odd too. We were still in the dead posh end of town so you could buy dead posh snacks for your dead posh dogs here. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpP_L2RzJmKciE-WTiqP_pTYyOzPh9u5rbkPuYglNQifptbo0vrLoeCis-_4z8uurIhVPNETYIFyj5ls_0hog9mpaRpquI3YjyijoKWAPjbfvZxZs4hs29kaj7q6XegGyaIFRWf5M8jUCJRBj0W5X7cxNiii-BmldkObsNK0KyUNXMfRsZ3pq67cLRiTL/s4080/IMG_20230827_194308437.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpP_L2RzJmKciE-WTiqP_pTYyOzPh9u5rbkPuYglNQifptbo0vrLoeCis-_4z8uurIhVPNETYIFyj5ls_0hog9mpaRpquI3YjyijoKWAPjbfvZxZs4hs29kaj7q6XegGyaIFRWf5M8jUCJRBj0W5X7cxNiii-BmldkObsNK0KyUNXMfRsZ3pq67cLRiTL/s320/IMG_20230827_194308437.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>The place also stank of fish so we sat outside. We headed up hill next to the pub at the far end of the crawl, The Grapes. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2LMJwgQGiKCbqG1jj13-DFF-jgRX-t4aCyT_5zRTH7SR5zMwHlTjTIu3tA94-watuXYVTe3MoGri1qfehQ_eTaMfC0c0_cychblpIOKkoSz1I7_W28o3v1dE4nA8s2Kkv7cLyNoB_zj2foXqDTL8KwPcmFDXKMBx13k1EYDuSvuRNvjZCf8-3GsTGmhn1/s4080/IMG_20230827_195623668.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2LMJwgQGiKCbqG1jj13-DFF-jgRX-t4aCyT_5zRTH7SR5zMwHlTjTIu3tA94-watuXYVTe3MoGri1qfehQ_eTaMfC0c0_cychblpIOKkoSz1I7_W28o3v1dE4nA8s2Kkv7cLyNoB_zj2foXqDTL8KwPcmFDXKMBx13k1EYDuSvuRNvjZCf8-3GsTGmhn1/s320/IMG_20230827_195623668.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Entering here it was obvious that tourists and students don't like going uphill as it looked like they were about to have a meat raffle. More my sort of pub to be honest. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then, much like our higher functions, it was downhill to our last stop the Sir Isaac Newton.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgotjAuDx9uFRkEXSgn7-U-g8Aw_2dnV8sEt7FCQ79kHmGPzS92Wc741NzQ3th95iYgBDyXn-14OHsIFBoLDm3yCRbfJCMvz410SzNtb7wjkAobmbq8WFAFbk98UjLAyweN50CxKa5VIahx5H7dS1AyYklEU7AlNwzmzfJ6fSL3bmGmQJfeB6l_XbhNdcc_/s4080/IMG_20230827_201755838.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgotjAuDx9uFRkEXSgn7-U-g8Aw_2dnV8sEt7FCQ79kHmGPzS92Wc741NzQ3th95iYgBDyXn-14OHsIFBoLDm3yCRbfJCMvz410SzNtb7wjkAobmbq8WFAFbk98UjLAyweN50CxKa5VIahx5H7dS1AyYklEU7AlNwzmzfJ6fSL3bmGmQJfeB6l_XbhNdcc_/s320/IMG_20230827_201755838.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>We finished on Old Peculier and slightly to the surprise of the person serving us (it not being at an end of the crawl) we got our last stamp. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2_0SNvMBIj5Pv8wCFRm78zJbXNKUilczrV527FwsCKsTlnUiqf5aq861ZJzsHQgqvGdg5V5Sv9c8fOfot4erwm2gtnzXwkYEI_arXTY15G-Ll_qDdvyMNA83W5W9C0t5SBY07vm_CjVmnGnlZbmn-rS5OVo5ICZExeblkd9v2dVLBAYGfCp32PwwysHu/s4080/IMG_20230905_074541607.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2_0SNvMBIj5Pv8wCFRm78zJbXNKUilczrV527FwsCKsTlnUiqf5aq861ZJzsHQgqvGdg5V5Sv9c8fOfot4erwm2gtnzXwkYEI_arXTY15G-Ll_qDdvyMNA83W5W9C0t5SBY07vm_CjVmnGnlZbmn-rS5OVo5ICZExeblkd9v2dVLBAYGfCp32PwwysHu/s320/IMG_20230905_074541607.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Five (5) stamps <i>each in a different colour! </i>Which I think shows how great our achievement was. <br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-65328969795909425022023-08-25T17:55:00.000+01:002023-08-25T17:55:21.637+01:00I've got binoculars on top of Box Hill<p><b>The Surrey Alps is one of Southern England's most impressive ranges, towering to almost a thousand feet in places</b>. The ascent of perhaps its best known peak, Box Hill, is not to be taken lightly <i>particularly if you've already been to <a href="https://kobabjj.com/">BJJ training</a> that morning. </i>But did I let that stop me? Oh no! </p><p>My mate Dan was keen to do some navigation practice so it seemed like an excellent opportunity to do one of CAMRA's South East Pub Walks that I'd wanted to do for ages. Our start point was some way from the official start, which meant we walked even further than the route in the book. That's how heroic we are! </p><p>It also meant we passed what looked suspiciously like an old maltings to me:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDog-STSx_xrSJx20nCjM03eTgw9rqBxdsM5MldfLHuUhn_EjYqL_hS0d8zWvaXEsrKfqR6ZEMfLqrzEQLQS8Ezp_NXcgbyJB1GpGZedFEXjdI0rKJLtyQjBxoUZFJz4oPFbzCQXvpWhBBfQzteXoeS_Q7bjadu8Fl6qsnysoymOC1UboISGYsPtubgI6/s4080/IMG_20230819_114047865_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDog-STSx_xrSJx20nCjM03eTgw9rqBxdsM5MldfLHuUhn_EjYqL_hS0d8zWvaXEsrKfqR6ZEMfLqrzEQLQS8Ezp_NXcgbyJB1GpGZedFEXjdI0rKJLtyQjBxoUZFJz4oPFbzCQXvpWhBBfQzteXoeS_Q7bjadu8Fl6qsnysoymOC1UboISGYsPtubgI6/s320/IMG_20230819_114047865_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I suspect this is an old maltings</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>When tax was paid on malt people would shovel it out of the windows when they saw the tax man coming so a law was passed requiring maltings to have bars on the windows. </div><div><br /></div><div>The route took us down tunnels...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsn21WPrPoeTSvNxNby_voQFNIXWI1uxoI5nrMPmRtyCvxzpbix3MCZwoNOj8WxR_XhHb8ooeHCdVXELz2fyHUfv1RsKVYzSJNY5pn8JbG1B_qX8GNcDfzDoGXFGiFiBQBExDJ_BIt7_zp-iBws_FioFkfaIttLeDiuASKXX7Xz73-0rLWy_Pg2P6LQqTR/s4080/IMG_20230819_134108468.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsn21WPrPoeTSvNxNby_voQFNIXWI1uxoI5nrMPmRtyCvxzpbix3MCZwoNOj8WxR_XhHb8ooeHCdVXELz2fyHUfv1RsKVYzSJNY5pn8JbG1B_qX8GNcDfzDoGXFGiFiBQBExDJ_BIt7_zp-iBws_FioFkfaIttLeDiuASKXX7Xz73-0rLWy_Pg2P6LQqTR/s320/IMG_20230819_134108468.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>over stepping stones ...</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lgsnsFWzO843J9RRtSQIICBZimpXpUHtrLTJzOOZRmvdv_dEwTaTku1j-gSTJW5hVHUCal6Uc3OPoqHlmOzchYk3tSBQZcMntRgzkMw13Mh36lnD6zkBCMAj7sAIrhdgt5Oc4PUApwB3rcAA_AKesHyba7uLyygdYgcuWVv5xMPVkgoajkZ3eGUSUm3D/s4080/IMG_20230819_134739709.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lgsnsFWzO843J9RRtSQIICBZimpXpUHtrLTJzOOZRmvdv_dEwTaTku1j-gSTJW5hVHUCal6Uc3OPoqHlmOzchYk3tSBQZcMntRgzkMw13Mh36lnD6zkBCMAj7sAIrhdgt5Oc4PUApwB3rcAA_AKesHyba7uLyygdYgcuWVv5xMPVkgoajkZ3eGUSUm3D/s320/IMG_20230819_134739709.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>and up lots. <br /><br />I didn't actually have any binoculars with me. I'm more a cup of splosh and a greasy dog man myself anyway, but there is a good view. </div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBI51uHIEkAvH1kZgIZeAyJDuS9ghfGz-E5Ed0crxDu3LlUgIZOcKQPCxJQPfxietk2sUVnEYGvgy7fCd_eh6Jv_KDSbDki1dXLe_YlXAiyRwnTe11SRKy8vDKRK5_Wu5A6EOce-HYHd0mRdcUE3Mbvp05a6sxhEERSlhh5q-MsTXazO5K3KrYFdftcnAm/s4080/IMG_20230819_140704012_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBI51uHIEkAvH1kZgIZeAyJDuS9ghfGz-E5Ed0crxDu3LlUgIZOcKQPCxJQPfxietk2sUVnEYGvgy7fCd_eh6Jv_KDSbDki1dXLe_YlXAiyRwnTe11SRKy8vDKRK5_Wu5A6EOce-HYHd0mRdcUE3Mbvp05a6sxhEERSlhh5q-MsTXazO5K3KrYFdftcnAm/s320/IMG_20230819_140704012_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>View from Box Hill</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>We had a look at the fort that kept Napoleon out of London:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgylTF45wBHXCWaFl-CCtmn8wPBXuWE4IPlfnztAVkLUM_3haLu-f8w79PdLxdPruyoN9TdHuJU0KAGFedv7bS9Jwy5v1PwhpOVICXcj9_pqPZAjjFjWq4wr6v2HCg66oMA1ekj-ftFu8dehSXkKaGFJiFy6FbvfF6WCuPCcix2ByVPkfVRpm-qV5Ow4o6L/s4080/IMG_20230819_142206440_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgylTF45wBHXCWaFl-CCtmn8wPBXuWE4IPlfnztAVkLUM_3haLu-f8w79PdLxdPruyoN9TdHuJU0KAGFedv7bS9Jwy5v1PwhpOVICXcj9_pqPZAjjFjWq4wr6v2HCg66oMA1ekj-ftFu8dehSXkKaGFJiFy6FbvfF6WCuPCcix2ByVPkfVRpm-qV5Ow4o6L/s320/IMG_20230819_142206440_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Though from the cave art it looks like it's also the site of ancient fertility rituals:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVlVeP9UPFij4eqET71ZBzir6wS4ZUwmHaQ6YH6u2pIauM1KjheukUgj6Zqbb0IiHr2B1YAmdd8ZVre-paAmN-mfE-T3VTBjHBg9M8rLpq5UNGjlIxeDeYAzaSOSzdnYHPpFpBN43TQ22e4jo1q8Q4ngPA0WXd9ubuMUNccA6TzJlpDRQqhZKbU1CtLcJA/s4080/IMG_20230819_142313366_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVlVeP9UPFij4eqET71ZBzir6wS4ZUwmHaQ6YH6u2pIauM1KjheukUgj6Zqbb0IiHr2B1YAmdd8ZVre-paAmN-mfE-T3VTBjHBg9M8rLpq5UNGjlIxeDeYAzaSOSzdnYHPpFpBN43TQ22e4jo1q8Q4ngPA0WXd9ubuMUNccA6TzJlpDRQqhZKbU1CtLcJA/s320/IMG_20230819_142313366_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>After that it was back into woods, which personally I find a lot harder to navigate than hills. You do get a better class of mushrooms in woods though:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZ-dHYvCfWwTGxa7V2oNNNeHH_oypQRSrURzWD46E2GoW8Qy_bsOwxv53RKJI_Z0dP4zV856wuJi6eAwpovuoiZpvixVdS04TRSbk2OOX5lR2nzlacNjMKVOWrUzh6pJoDCQXLuT97sZlQaEWxGSHPJz20zTT_pku5xZJg41AQVpJd2uC4H9RDB8GX95A/s4080/IMG_20230819_144150895.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZ-dHYvCfWwTGxa7V2oNNNeHH_oypQRSrURzWD46E2GoW8Qy_bsOwxv53RKJI_Z0dP4zV856wuJi6eAwpovuoiZpvixVdS04TRSbk2OOX5lR2nzlacNjMKVOWrUzh6pJoDCQXLuT97sZlQaEWxGSHPJz20zTT_pku5xZJg41AQVpJd2uC4H9RDB8GX95A/s320/IMG_20230819_144150895.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>There were some unexpected sights too:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCZabgOXvq0zS4uZow2y18UXp7Qg3pww_7blY5o6Yj8kUzGCSFHGZP8IWfn0oYx7bbkGuSfij51REfb0vmX2uEtBwApz7gqriRDJsgSOt6eHxBCDBZyU921ftLvCkfjOsDio1tECl1Fml2_vxpCTJIp4Om2x58hyXcA80FfZDWyiqXEbjUE1urYKW-EUu/s4080/IMG_20230819_144701056_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCZabgOXvq0zS4uZow2y18UXp7Qg3pww_7blY5o6Yj8kUzGCSFHGZP8IWfn0oYx7bbkGuSfij51REfb0vmX2uEtBwApz7gqriRDJsgSOt6eHxBCDBZyU921ftLvCkfjOsDio1tECl1Fml2_vxpCTJIp4Om2x58hyXcA80FfZDWyiqXEbjUE1urYKW-EUu/s320/IMG_20230819_144701056_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I reckon a folly</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2TfxuLsPct2nyQvqy--FG3ban2c-Y2asUDh0lGUQ3opoAqrQg_w3aHNJgDWKTuWuVF1TSP4jHKOEe661JdIPUjG9wXrYjyeWUwtNcPshWJkpaOoA7CtiB4AsRe0PWWmhMwasQZPHKLoazh7MK51P4ADXs_bXG0XRSUe-MBwSkM3zcpYPkTg7-luY8pZWZ/s4080/IMG_20230819_153147397.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2TfxuLsPct2nyQvqy--FG3ban2c-Y2asUDh0lGUQ3opoAqrQg_w3aHNJgDWKTuWuVF1TSP4jHKOEe661JdIPUjG9wXrYjyeWUwtNcPshWJkpaOoA7CtiB4AsRe0PWWmhMwasQZPHKLoazh7MK51P4ADXs_bXG0XRSUe-MBwSkM3zcpYPkTg7-luY8pZWZ/s320/IMG_20230819_153147397.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>And this was definitely folly</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The late Bob Steel's pub walks have never let me down but I have to say I was getting worried as the started drawing nearer to the first pub. We had most definitely earned a pint by this stage but as I've said navigating in woods can be hard and the guide book did little to calm my nerves:</div><blockquote><div><i>"... the confusion of paths on Mickleham Downs make it a bit of a navigational graveyard so stick to my directions carefully here if you want that beer"</i></div></blockquote><p>Stick carefully we did until we got to what we hoped was the required <i>"indistinct path to the left". </i>This was the point I was most concerned would go wrong and by this stage I was quite prepared to <strike>knock on the head</strike> temporarily suspend the navigation practice and see if I could get google maps on my phone. I needn't have worried though as Bob saw us right and we got to the <a href="https://thekingwilliamiv.com/">William IV</a>. We were told it was table service and though we didn't get any grief when we said we weren't eating I was staring to suspect the place was an abomination unto the lord. Then the beers arrived and I remembered our Mother Church values beer quality above all else. </p><blockquote><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAlsBjn4OraoO24TbNK1dv57wQT7ey_p5szm5bSMF-IMHxnCYq6yXCXo7OWk0q45eDR1J9Hm7cg0mnEGIosEhW2EkUBvdkNBUWYlwn12c94v75IcGZlaTKxaIyCGRGZL7Oz1IIiVLpba_DdpXtAQ5RNtw5vo5ZWr35OUFlcCQHvgi7EnqHR8m-gN6Pmy8E/s4080/IMG_20230819_154100055_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAlsBjn4OraoO24TbNK1dv57wQT7ey_p5szm5bSMF-IMHxnCYq6yXCXo7OWk0q45eDR1J9Hm7cg0mnEGIosEhW2EkUBvdkNBUWYlwn12c94v75IcGZlaTKxaIyCGRGZL7Oz1IIiVLpba_DdpXtAQ5RNtw5vo5ZWr35OUFlcCQHvgi7EnqHR8m-gN6Pmy8E/s320/IMG_20230819_154100055_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Shere Drop, Champion Beer of Britain 2019-2023</i></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><p>As we were heading outside a door sprang open and someone leapt out saying "Hi guys!". It was only someone from the BJJ club! Bumping into someone we know definitely boosted this places pub credentials, as bumping into people is definitely a pub thing. We were in good spirits when we left.</p><p>Soon after we had to dash across four lanes of traffic, which made getting delayed by a herd of cows next all the more surprising. </p><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji2Zd0bYzTrqEO0R5AgQ34xfS9xhCUZxyM5Fsi5vlrZxZG8ghe6FH8bkKCZDu_WuY_XPIv5MCFQz4iaEdfDAg7ZprbmpvuKV5Yl0Ld5MYDE3AAaRhUnJNPX-12g8U_dD3vCtUUKVHIMd58sIE0rkubw589ejIeExv4GKJZNpopUUI-JUdNcVkOVvFuY6p/s4080/IMG_20230819_161357645_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji2Zd0bYzTrqEO0R5AgQ34xfS9xhCUZxyM5Fsi5vlrZxZG8ghe6FH8bkKCZDu_WuY_XPIv5MCFQz4iaEdfDAg7ZprbmpvuKV5Yl0Ld5MYDE3AAaRhUnJNPX-12g8U_dD3vCtUUKVHIMd58sIE0rkubw589ejIeExv4GKJZNpopUUI-JUdNcVkOVvFuY6p/s320/IMG_20230819_161357645_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div></blockquote><p>Though not as surprising as the communist base we passed: </p><blockquote><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1VLporwx48ULv_ovYIbommIGa9ER96c4zuSUTenPAceQtWxjYdzYfpZPbKUmCvNPgNIHSNx7M7VEpciWYJNHRqK2fps2_I_Mf2X4xaJVT7uCc6ETPxatWY3RZcgeOWrfDClctmt4bNsDUDbUBQ0icRkoiVOjtdmzcF4QpY9Ih4ofS1sRHgsw5vB8sPjE/s4080/IMG_20230819_164739393_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1VLporwx48ULv_ovYIbommIGa9ER96c4zuSUTenPAceQtWxjYdzYfpZPbKUmCvNPgNIHSNx7M7VEpciWYJNHRqK2fps2_I_Mf2X4xaJVT7uCc6ETPxatWY3RZcgeOWrfDClctmt4bNsDUDbUBQ0icRkoiVOjtdmzcF4QpY9Ih4ofS1sRHgsw5vB8sPjE/s320/IMG_20230819_164739393_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Should I ever be a soldier 'neath the red flag I would fight</i></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><p>At least I think they were communists, what else could a red flag mean? After passing the Leatherhead Soviet I put the map, compass <b>and </b>guide book away as we'd been told the pub was just over a bridge and you can trust Bob. And sure enough there it was: </p><blockquote><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWd2QjK_uMY4uhYKPcr_hBu-4orAv3fPt22HG6ZV5KZOr60Kqq8Bz3qm36n6_9E7nbJC-3OjX8URw5nw7E6VmDZyLSYwSD0uSWdwStdxJDaiPPyV2RYMsrA_7o2oxWFjSpr7a4DVblWUiZ2Efa4GCkT7_himgFBHXhjJbPS4pP0QdByovBaHqBjnQXsUo/s4080/IMG_20230819_170013558_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWd2QjK_uMY4uhYKPcr_hBu-4orAv3fPt22HG6ZV5KZOr60Kqq8Bz3qm36n6_9E7nbJC-3OjX8URw5nw7E6VmDZyLSYwSD0uSWdwStdxJDaiPPyV2RYMsrA_7o2oxWFjSpr7a4DVblWUiZ2Efa4GCkT7_himgFBHXhjJbPS4pP0QdByovBaHqBjnQXsUo/s320/IMG_20230819_170013558_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Oh yes</i></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><p>I've wanted to go to the Running Horse for ages, after reading Alan McLeod's <a href="https://abetterbeerblog427.com/2017/04/12/how-to-deal-with-folk-like-elynour-rummyng/">blog about it</a>. The pub's been around for ages and there's even rambling sexist doggerel written over 500 years ago by the poet laureate of the time about the then landlady. I guess that's the sort of thing people did before television or feminism were invented. </p><blockquote><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTT8FH20uIJXrPW5jy-7FLcSOW6eZpfEiO7CoLiXIFGY_uQto-Seu3VGkmykFkRFBIocexkpzxtUWSJrVxmtYDKo3znL3fZCgb2X1E11EIN6ttOxChMNH3-zgBcgHUn5VWCnUiZMIfQQq950Qe7-XqHEswB9Q1kUh-bMUDeBXdJqR5FM_0awQDRAVHLvQ6/s4080/IMG_20230819_170117633_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTT8FH20uIJXrPW5jy-7FLcSOW6eZpfEiO7CoLiXIFGY_uQto-Seu3VGkmykFkRFBIocexkpzxtUWSJrVxmtYDKo3znL3fZCgb2X1E11EIN6ttOxChMNH3-zgBcgHUn5VWCnUiZMIfQQq950Qe7-XqHEswB9Q1kUh-bMUDeBXdJqR5FM_0awQDRAVHLvQ6/s320/IMG_20230819_170117633_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /></div></blockquote><p>The poem features prominently on the outside of the pub but I must confess I was more interested in the inside and more refreshment. I loitered outside a little while before entering as I had a pasty to finish and the smell of pub was wafting out of the doorway. Had it brought back any specific memories it would definitely have been a Proustian moment. But as it didn't it was just a moment when I thought "cor, bet this is a proper pub!" And indeed it was, complete with horse brasses: </p><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK73A_J9Nx7DWq_nwVGg1aZYiYu47KdKBfpa7zWLDIEjRVgYeYpY73bFNFfS8JUCyGdrPT_LQbnm5qAcyCRytbbBrCZkPOhWblKq4tf-f8qxk_kpAs0Ok1I61e_bXB08m1dEU0aKPaePDCMYfP_BRsyHmaMt-Nip_SHcm7-fxQFVczHWrGqyTtLGlhBFnw/s4080/IMG_20230819_170203055_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK73A_J9Nx7DWq_nwVGg1aZYiYu47KdKBfpa7zWLDIEjRVgYeYpY73bFNFfS8JUCyGdrPT_LQbnm5qAcyCRytbbBrCZkPOhWblKq4tf-f8qxk_kpAs0Ok1I61e_bXB08m1dEU0aKPaePDCMYfP_BRsyHmaMt-Nip_SHcm7-fxQFVczHWrGqyTtLGlhBFnw/s320/IMG_20230819_170203055_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div></blockquote><p>When we left I spotted it even had two bars and you don't get more proper pub than that. It's a Sheps pub but they had Surrey Hills on so I swerved the Spitfire and went for that. Glorious it was too. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2ybf4AXHqqkpUmQfyCTlvA1oKiu2KW_QE53dr_9E5r9jX_TcJ6FIumhNwiD_6PCrkp4IMa8y7zw8fLs7DEgha_X1cFu8wyxy3jf09iHbVo0Njf2k24yO0JHapF_XvItMRZG6qZ7AHuZ2IMEnz5ILxj4z4KKPpON3WyLPx-yfm-_XxghdoLaLyxuP2V0a/s4080/IMG_20230819_170501910_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2ybf4AXHqqkpUmQfyCTlvA1oKiu2KW_QE53dr_9E5r9jX_TcJ6FIumhNwiD_6PCrkp4IMa8y7zw8fLs7DEgha_X1cFu8wyxy3jf09iHbVo0Njf2k24yO0JHapF_XvItMRZG6qZ7AHuZ2IMEnz5ILxj4z4KKPpON3WyLPx-yfm-_XxghdoLaLyxuP2V0a/s320/IMG_20230819_170501910_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ranmore Ale</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>That was the pub walk done, which definitely had a high walk to pub ratio but that's probably for the best as more beer wouldn't have helped with the heroic amount of walking we did or the navigation. </p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-81106374248460991742023-08-20T13:26:00.001+01:002023-08-20T13:26:54.128+01:00Where craft beats cask<p><b>Devout member of our <a href="https://camra.org.uk/">mother church</a> that I am I have to admit that the London Craft Beer Festival (LCBF) was vastly superior to the <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-great-british-beer-festival-2023.html">Great British Beer Festival</a></b>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwTAOh_TwH9ftwnenb5gJoIOdOuVirufZdrlVyH93TS2gqI8v2qwPyGWA1c735Bkmppa1m89VnK6XENZHLOz4NIJseCpOzHqCYnfFyREily-raUzcRhvQ-M_jxi6o01FWakVtziOwh7hhlogzKU792P71B1mWNsG3Ef0WiGXaZoBFTMuNSvxkR7q9CtitO/s4080/IMG_20230812_183448114.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwTAOh_TwH9ftwnenb5gJoIOdOuVirufZdrlVyH93TS2gqI8v2qwPyGWA1c735Bkmppa1m89VnK6XENZHLOz4NIJseCpOzHqCYnfFyREily-raUzcRhvQ-M_jxi6o01FWakVtziOwh7hhlogzKU792P71B1mWNsG3Ef0WiGXaZoBFTMuNSvxkR7q9CtitO/s320/IMG_20230812_183448114.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Though I was able to get free tickets for both events at the GBBF I had to pay for my own beer whereas at the LCBF all the drinks come with the ticket so I spent zero (0) pounds and zero (0) pence on beer. There may have been rank heresy on display at the LCBF and most of the beer came from the devil's drainpipe but you can't argue with free beer. The GBBF is going to have to up its game in the giving me free beer stakes if it wants to win the crown back. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One drawback at the LCBF is the beer is served in tiny "samples". But if you put the work in you can still get pissed, particularly as several types of tramp juice were available. If fact the barley wine from <a href="https://www.thequeerbrewingproject.com/">Queer Brewing</a> was my beer of the festival. <br /><br />It's an awful venue though, too hot, loud, cramped and confusing but I guess you can't have everything. </div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-82583577635582420462023-08-13T19:55:00.000+01:002023-08-13T19:55:24.908+01:00There's no conspiracy at Greene King either<p><b> I was entirely unconvinced by the <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-great-british-beer-festival-2023.html">twerps whinging on that the Champion Beer of Britain competition was fixed </a>because Greene King Abbot Ale came second this year</b>. Boak and Bailey have posted on their blog about their experiences judging the CBoB and the title of the post is unambiguous: <a href="https://boakandbailey.com/2023/08/theres-no-conspiracy-behind-the-champion-beer-of-britain/">There’s no conspiracy behind the Champion Beer of Britain</a>.</p><p>There's also a secondary conspiracy theory which has been which has been discussed online though: that Greene King didn't send their normal beer to the competition. As I know an ex-Greene King brewer that I think it's fair to say has no great love for the company I figured I might be able to get to the bottom of this one. So I asked them if GK got up to anything with competition beers and the answer came back:</p><blockquote><p>"they didn't do anything different for festival beers when I was there"</p></blockquote><p>Now it's possible things have changed since my friend left the company but why would they? Doing well in the CBoB competition isn't anything new for GK, I can remember GK IPA and XX Mild also doing well (and also similar whinging afterwards!).</p><p>I think that's wrapped it up for the CBoB conspiracy theories so if GK could send me the promised money that would be grand ;-)</p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-23201596146354540232023-08-07T09:00:00.003+01:002023-08-07T09:00:00.165+01:00The Great British Beer Festival 2023<p><b>What a happy coincidence that my professional body hosted a meeting at the start of the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) trade day. </b>Seeing as I was in the area I of course headed to it for some more <i>networking. </i>But first the CPD:</p><p><a href="https://www.petebrown.net/">Pete Brown</a> was giving a talk on the <a href="https://www.petebrown.net/2023/08/02/beer-industry-campaign-reignites-conversations-about-cask-ale/">Cask Fresh Campaign</a>, a short marketing pilot aimed at promoting cask beer. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9qZqgoxfX798_CLEIsqaZzxQSLtp0jcuNEEQiMlJn8eLlj_NZOfYnvCRWtWh1jx33XmgDqPB_VMvxunYFuYfK9u9CfY4nMfM6DCyjiDjQhqqpLBE5xtKy3BmNYimO71e4Og996ap_3cvTGU37GYFj1h4wGBaZynzhdkLIGKX069YuniuF_9BtVgectnm/s4896/DSC04348.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9qZqgoxfX798_CLEIsqaZzxQSLtp0jcuNEEQiMlJn8eLlj_NZOfYnvCRWtWh1jx33XmgDqPB_VMvxunYFuYfK9u9CfY4nMfM6DCyjiDjQhqqpLBE5xtKy3BmNYimO71e4Og996ap_3cvTGU37GYFj1h4wGBaZynzhdkLIGKX069YuniuF_9BtVgectnm/s320/DSC04348.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I was rather disturbed to hear that some pub companies are actively opposed to cask beer because they make more money from lager. There have long been people saying that cask beer should be more expensive but surely the fact that cask beer is cheaper than keg is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy? </div><div><br /></div><div>Then we were told that the brewing industry talks cask beer down more than consumers, often repeating old man stereotypes which most of the public don't hold, they're just ignorant about cask. I found this a very interesting point as this crap is something I've heard in the industry, and my non-beery friend's don't say it when I talk about beer. Their eyes do tend to glaze over though, but that's probably just because they're concentrating so hard on what I'm saying.</div><div><br /></div><div>The usual terms used to describe cask beer, like secondary fermentation and containing yeast weren't used and instead <i>freshness </i>was chosen as it's a popular term with young consumers. It didn't have the impact that was hoped though as it's too close to <i>refreshing </i>which is it seems lager territory. </div><div><br /></div><div>Pubs with more engaged staff did better but the small size of the study meant that the results were inconclusive. It was pointed out that cask beers are now the only beers poured below the bar, something I'd not thought about before. And a new marketing slogan was suggested:</div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYvRhoAWEdfjaFnYrbsSTaNhX30HeseNJ80_N-plxmTinaaIr5xl31E91qEfHkjIpAcTRuu35-iwQ-b1lRoX42E3BBMksn14uj7rboudQTq1eOESUkEUTWg5Ee_NKN886skYYAiKyi_qHIuzNlgg0Pj_nxRtYJOtmuMTyQ3ZeM6hQlFwZjFdEsfe24Psz/s4896/DSC04388.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYvRhoAWEdfjaFnYrbsSTaNhX30HeseNJ80_N-plxmTinaaIr5xl31E91qEfHkjIpAcTRuu35-iwQ-b1lRoX42E3BBMksn14uj7rboudQTq1eOESUkEUTWg5Ee_NKN886skYYAiKyi_qHIuzNlgg0Pj_nxRtYJOtmuMTyQ3ZeM6hQlFwZjFdEsfe24Psz/s320/DSC04388.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Take a fresh look at cask</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>My background is not in marketing so I take a more <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2023/08/expound-good-and-evil.html">spiritual approach</a> and would suggest something along the lines of:</div><div><br /></div><div>HEATHENS! Do you want to spend eternity in the fiery pit or in paradise? Stop drinking keg beer and drink cask. </div><div><br /></div><div>That would surely get the ungodly thinking about the consequences of their actions. </div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>networking </i>went well, even if the next morning didn't. I saw Ross from Surrey Hills Brewery right at the start and got as close as I'm ever likely to to the cup the Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB) winners get:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBJSJ7m3w8ofR1oeuPfvt2DbZDVmsB_6wFixmptLwch-R3CYo-uRASuyAB-FLSHKC3ZK1jOGPGMR0w2X8gV5EHnynAqHtuQ-wG86za09I9FHRexJR-S0JZoUKDlnvAsLIYaWHJ4G49vJj2DQc-4WIXmoPVjxZu1Qh9Hv6xVNRzxaM39dwgVh6uE1Dd9IY/s4080/IMG_20230801_121905059_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBJSJ7m3w8ofR1oeuPfvt2DbZDVmsB_6wFixmptLwch-R3CYo-uRASuyAB-FLSHKC3ZK1jOGPGMR0w2X8gV5EHnynAqHtuQ-wG86za09I9FHRexJR-S0JZoUKDlnvAsLIYaWHJ4G49vJj2DQc-4WIXmoPVjxZu1Qh9Hv6xVNRzxaM39dwgVh6uE1Dd9IY/s320/IMG_20230801_121905059_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div>I caught up with everyone I'd hoped to and more, and even briefly spotted an unpopular figure responsible for legislation favouring the rich:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Nrl4xJR0Zi7A9n4odZDcshnmjcm0jptkoU8bd8_QHizVYTl1QzHhMrj3NBt-NvUIHzsiYhCZUX_T1Lnm1770nhz2vopFTQOcnwIfd2leAoa7ljheKiLzzDYDJ8PFkZflosquYhR1JGKa_qlh8CpFfIpl4Jpwra4Lgxa_T4eUsQT9XtT7vzukyJ2-dmLW/s4080/IMG_20230801_135749609.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Nrl4xJR0Zi7A9n4odZDcshnmjcm0jptkoU8bd8_QHizVYTl1QzHhMrj3NBt-NvUIHzsiYhCZUX_T1Lnm1770nhz2vopFTQOcnwIfd2leAoa7ljheKiLzzDYDJ8PFkZflosquYhR1JGKa_qlh8CpFfIpl4Jpwra4Lgxa_T4eUsQT9XtT7vzukyJ2-dmLW/s320/IMG_20230801_135749609.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Totally missed Rishi Sunak though. </div><div><br /></div><div>And though the next day was a bit of a struggle it was brightened by the return of twerps whinging on about the GBBF on twitter, this time because Abbot Ale got overall second place in the CBoB. CAMRA and the blind tasting panel are in the pay of Greene King it seems. Which I suppose makes a change from Wetherspoons. To me the twerps are just showing their ignorance. The wonder of cask beer means that at times it can elevate beers to highs you would never have expected. If people spent less time suckling at the devil's drainpipe and more time drinking beer served as god intended they would realise this. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-72718651127078246132023-08-06T20:00:00.000+01:002023-08-06T20:00:00.942+01:00Expound good and evil<p><b>Many people think that the opposite of good beer is bad beer</b>. They are mistaken. The opposite of good beer is <b>evil beer</b>. </p><p><b>Cask beer</b>, served as god intended, <b>is good</b>:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1dwV4TB79zfvCDGvty7SFlrOpyuoF9B7E9ePnr5WVmgN3r45wvBZEHb8jIRkxZIdNwcgAIznmuxnSyt9Elxuejoo5PN_icCTZFLMTh0fNCQS3HysxwbKDP_VS7TgpzS5NpY16pCRCBiMKcKEFNAZ_ylMdXm65detYL9V_6b42ymce_0ZvJf7d-zV_2JT/s4080/IMG_20230804_192622687.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1dwV4TB79zfvCDGvty7SFlrOpyuoF9B7E9ePnr5WVmgN3r45wvBZEHb8jIRkxZIdNwcgAIznmuxnSyt9Elxuejoo5PN_icCTZFLMTh0fNCQS3HysxwbKDP_VS7TgpzS5NpY16pCRCBiMKcKEFNAZ_ylMdXm65detYL9V_6b42ymce_0ZvJf7d-zV_2JT/s320/IMG_20230804_192622687.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cask beers</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>Keg beer</b>, served from the devil's drainpipe, <b>is evil</b>:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX-VnyrhbtPcwjgjS5rHQ1-1KJkxFbRD6VsMG8VbtKxAWF4J4sG1Pc6mc56bF21_SQQO1U2ocd1Sw32xhr-M3uOyv7lJ_V5PkRW5v4ZznJaColeOR1ZrrnWFr5uacc6POOGsdhDm6X0XAgxJlwl4bcVMM2U5iv7XJ6qIQCtUzTXcJme5EFVeZGrkOgVpE0/s4080/IMG_20230804_204941843_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX-VnyrhbtPcwjgjS5rHQ1-1KJkxFbRD6VsMG8VbtKxAWF4J4sG1Pc6mc56bF21_SQQO1U2ocd1Sw32xhr-M3uOyv7lJ_V5PkRW5v4ZznJaColeOR1ZrrnWFr5uacc6POOGsdhDm6X0XAgxJlwl4bcVMM2U5iv7XJ6qIQCtUzTXcJme5EFVeZGrkOgVpE0/s320/IMG_20230804_204941843_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Keg beer</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!</p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-38835990096019120252023-07-19T19:36:00.000+01:002023-07-19T19:36:02.226+01:00How much lager is really drunk in Britain?<p><b>After a hard day's Continuing Professional Development there's nothing better than an evening of <i>Networking</i>. </b>It's like CPD but with more drinking and less technical stuff. </p><p>You can learn a lot when Networking too. As I did recently when I was gobsmacked to hear that Fosters is brewed with an ale yeast. Which given the way beers are generally classified nowadays means not as much lager is drunk in Britain as was thought. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvtkOmq1ODa8Wi3JFTdrFvWPTRiYvH6Vzb4z8PU1PjT-d2lVmYOXglIjSV-FzxdwRlsqdgTwGwHAMDKDNk6TBjz56oXlwYj4UCCn3BMKoblBg2-LOSPJgiKS982Zx-OELhmDnSWAtbkEmrPWvTYRdabQpgHVXoRfv23qVCympy-FNamhZnSMU0ZAy_4ctK/s4080/IMG_20230714_202730569_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvtkOmq1ODa8Wi3JFTdrFvWPTRiYvH6Vzb4z8PU1PjT-d2lVmYOXglIjSV-FzxdwRlsqdgTwGwHAMDKDNk6TBjz56oXlwYj4UCCn3BMKoblBg2-LOSPJgiKS982Zx-OELhmDnSWAtbkEmrPWvTYRdabQpgHVXoRfv23qVCympy-FNamhZnSMU0ZAy_4ctK/s320/IMG_20230714_202730569_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ale or Lager?</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>I have pondered on the problems with classification <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2011/02/lumpers-and-splitters.html">previously</a>. Would it really help anyone if Fosters was reclassified as an ale? I don't actually know what it tastes like, I might have drunk it as sometimes needs must but I can't remember. I'd be very surprised if it doesn't fit the flavour profile and specifications of industrial lager though, which is surely what people buying it are after. Still, I guess I've got another thing I can bore my non-beer geek mates with. <br /><p><br /></p></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-49008760505475354582023-07-03T09:00:00.003+01:002023-07-03T19:17:52.935+01:00A visit to Budweiser Budvar brewery<b>Last stop on the study tour was Budějovický Budvar or the <a href="https://budweiserbudvar.com/uk/">Budweiser Budvar brewery</a>. </b>As someone who drinks in the ways of righteousness I've never been much a lager drinker and I've always preferred Pilsner Urquell to Budweiser Budvar. But our mother church did <a href="https://www.probrewer.com/beverage-industry-news/camra-rallies-behind-budvar/">campaign to keep it independent</a> and it is a fascinating brewery. Ninety days lagering! Bonkers I tell you. <div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLtO0omSJuL8L2ik6rl25dVV-_29N9Nnwj9LFuYkkyPqQQurrBsrqkSs0ncSZZquzMP2XtKO_DeNko1iA3BRiKBa3SFqmkrj2wCgp2BuwjxJv3SKsOEiGmg4KJjSBH9NLItSUlqNw4vVis8DFSxYRDrIDFocVXTM8AyL3iEdKV7glZIHSx1e4fbqM_cUT/s320/DSC04017.JPG" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The head brewer was there to meet us and show half the group round. He said we could take any pictures and they have no secrets, "what we do is in the text books". </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17rZwzlRVzup1SwZq2sUGuRCeuOmSfvcegecsOBJKmTwAcKpWPhsO6QpDWyx0bxHLWkUa33bo8vYcXkFAGyzVPN3L-h1YcmvbGoL9MjvWgOr3ArhNzv7yNnoCgxFkjtPgbniw0ciOjCXBjBiwROIIOPG0mfYzSXRGwhR1rFwezn8F_Vjq6si6T-q-TAgC/s4896/DSC04018.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17rZwzlRVzup1SwZq2sUGuRCeuOmSfvcegecsOBJKmTwAcKpWPhsO6QpDWyx0bxHLWkUa33bo8vYcXkFAGyzVPN3L-h1YcmvbGoL9MjvWgOr3ArhNzv7yNnoCgxFkjtPgbniw0ciOjCXBjBiwROIIOPG0mfYzSXRGwhR1rFwezn8F_Vjq6si6T-q-TAgC/s320/DSC04018.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The brewery was built in 1895 on the road to Prague above a good water supply. We passed a couple of massive water tanks and when I asked how big they are some wit piped up "πr2h" but failed to provide a tape measure so I remained ignorant. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd3BppNuvZ-2_nLoy982g66vxHcr5FYUbA-1NputzMt8yLug4z4bsDRDeUg3IipaSoriMQoS163NHaqFt6ya5Klk2tDCMyulPYGqDtIhdrNDM5HG7ywx0WBXJIFNyAaYwgXFPf1fnZ63qF2W9v161wDFMHTr6DJ8sLL0zIN7AcDrWbfUG7nj6x8HN-oeF/s4896/DSC04021.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd3BppNuvZ-2_nLoy982g66vxHcr5FYUbA-1NputzMt8yLug4z4bsDRDeUg3IipaSoriMQoS163NHaqFt6ya5Klk2tDCMyulPYGqDtIhdrNDM5HG7ywx0WBXJIFNyAaYwgXFPf1fnZ63qF2W9v161wDFMHTr6DJ8sLL0zIN7AcDrWbfUG7nj6x8HN-oeF/s320/DSC04021.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Actually the brewer showing us round did tell us and my ignorance is due to me getting lost somewhere in the explanation. They're definitely big though. They remove iron and manganese from the water by aerating it and whirlpooling it in the water tanks, which is a new one on me. I did a lot of work on brewing water a few jobs back but I'd never come across this. It does leave a sludge so every couple of years they have to drain the tanks to remove it. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijnZmEMFjIaUSxkaBIuXYYyaa5bF65NNyhmmRxT0dTkVDyKsYtfvcv7SPLjU22Ngwsv7DhKuEZU0theuoULtEf-IVDrBN4MAFgIVrEYXVQxsCwzTXX2L1OyyCMm4flgfOkX_PKkqYTjmr1Za8YSaopzrZmq5pI_Nper2yhRwWE1u2X8lS_L8CpmTO53jLF/s4896/DSC04023.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijnZmEMFjIaUSxkaBIuXYYyaa5bF65NNyhmmRxT0dTkVDyKsYtfvcv7SPLjU22Ngwsv7DhKuEZU0theuoULtEf-IVDrBN4MAFgIVrEYXVQxsCwzTXX2L1OyyCMm4flgfOkX_PKkqYTjmr1Za8YSaopzrZmq5pI_Nper2yhRwWE1u2X8lS_L8CpmTO53jLF/s320/DSC04023.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The 300m deep well</i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div>With annual production at 1.8 million hl a year and growing they're reaching the limits of the water supply. The water to beer ratio is 4.5-4.6: 1 and they're trying to get it down to 4:1. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGe8A5HK45ugNg4Ln83KN1UTnoRfImMDlyQIuVzoZx3BfCD3AybMk9Ty2CC5tAYo-GtfGTpZU9JdDDqRcItugBiEhBLsX7y-nRXUuTutTvI5LsBODz0Od_l1vToEgM5n08PC65g3-NEZzvWwxus_kdG8cMFfQdGNh09uFUlNONHA82CoYiZWWz6HgAt4yT/s4896/DSC04022.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div>The had an automated warehouse built seven years ago and it's decoration is based on the Czech flag apparently. Maybe if you squint enough you can see it. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN9PXb3yXtCUl0HIbRXCl6CD3k9ntZTvRQ5zecdEb9lAz_Ldv9U3RUjSZDizGaPJst1b-NKTwhKoIfB0ytuFg4hBqMsmnI8QWWAgzc5SOur_uxuTc5qGlkLj-rp457vj026g_GpFN4qlQw9zoJTC4l3d-bVtIG8ARr2TadBgaCTwaFUUbUdZhftNixDYZQ/s4896/DSC04029.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN9PXb3yXtCUl0HIbRXCl6CD3k9ntZTvRQ5zecdEb9lAz_Ldv9U3RUjSZDizGaPJst1b-NKTwhKoIfB0ytuFg4hBqMsmnI8QWWAgzc5SOur_uxuTc5qGlkLj-rp457vj026g_GpFN4qlQw9zoJTC4l3d-bVtIG8ARr2TadBgaCTwaFUUbUdZhftNixDYZQ/s320/DSC04029.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Unsurprisingly there are lots of big tanks ...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-Nshp6s0AhyafeB9lUhDxxTW7WTbC3hJpYQ9xlA3S0QuukIQzQNtUkE7EoDTI8OsATec6m924SHMTKk7e2PuoxouTpDGLzPoNBYPa0zaiCzYVZTbhhKWGL4ieBLxv9dNEmEpoG5kQBN9j5VliOjb17HYtWLWfwTz32SODr66Cr6GK_cYqblC8IJP2--t/s4896/DSC04030.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-Nshp6s0AhyafeB9lUhDxxTW7WTbC3hJpYQ9xlA3S0QuukIQzQNtUkE7EoDTI8OsATec6m924SHMTKk7e2PuoxouTpDGLzPoNBYPa0zaiCzYVZTbhhKWGL4ieBLxv9dNEmEpoG5kQBN9j5VliOjb17HYtWLWfwTz32SODr66Cr6GK_cYqblC8IJP2--t/s320/DSC04030.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>... and gleaming copper! </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIpMkz2ckjgmc2HetCVvGYlMB0QoOWaqLZ9eAUU6Ml5oEBWTIKtbppaZdHHy9mHscqPXpmh5uQGBuXOZful5MyR-Ehm3-iFP9NAsQerG0Tnj3DFhb1sz3zeVFEzVSMZzRKbCslTsvzFxPDfCXRGz4nHeLyatuUOKDoI0AtQ1J1r-JxryLnPzYHfou4P_J/s4896/DSC04032.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIpMkz2ckjgmc2HetCVvGYlMB0QoOWaqLZ9eAUU6Ml5oEBWTIKtbppaZdHHy9mHscqPXpmh5uQGBuXOZful5MyR-Ehm3-iFP9NAsQerG0Tnj3DFhb1sz3zeVFEzVSMZzRKbCslTsvzFxPDfCXRGz4nHeLyatuUOKDoI0AtQ1J1r-JxryLnPzYHfou4P_J/s320/DSC04032.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>It's copper cladding over stainless steel. But still, an absolutely stunning brewhouse. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuD1Jv7D90fGD22AW068y5yAxFZAvrhFWV4B5iVhewUsnv0qZKt6SCc0pXQoT1op3YzTSFpuScCYCNtMAE-FXlPRo-VOBP6jhq_7URDBi76nlz-i85oUaVNHUfmW2OCHZUaN2ID-08nZNqjZcFX9iGM2SYlRC2NxhitypXJeae39leAyK4r3kIifRAuSm/s4896/DSC04033.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuD1Jv7D90fGD22AW068y5yAxFZAvrhFWV4B5iVhewUsnv0qZKt6SCc0pXQoT1op3YzTSFpuScCYCNtMAE-FXlPRo-VOBP6jhq_7URDBi76nlz-i85oUaVNHUfmW2OCHZUaN2ID-08nZNqjZcFX9iGM2SYlRC2NxhitypXJeae39leAyK4r3kIifRAuSm/s320/DSC04033.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>They weren't brewing when we were there but normally do 12 brews a day with two sets of vessels. A third set is being planned. They do double decoction mashes and you can consult a brewing text book for more details. Oh alright, decoction mashing is a primitive European way of brewing that was developed before the invention of the thermometer. By mashing in at blood temperature and removing and boiling a portion of the mash (typically a third) before re-mixing it with the rest of the mash the temperature is raised in stages which hit the optimum temperature for the action of different enzymes (proteases, beta-glucanases and amylases) needed to get starch from poorly modified malt broken down into fermentable sugars. It does have the additional benefit of driving off the unpleasantly flavoured DMS (dimethyl sulphide) which plagues many lagers. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEn1cWhpmcGzurEhIV5F8DHVxa-Z2UdhuievRJZPFmLAxvLkD_eC441Nb73GOAcL6YNfZAJ2ex8672AmQKH8Lty_UfgLXUVPZOrSNus6_l6gddVtE7BOSpcHEAfVeQyrzDW0Ti_Cr_oU4t_fGLmsV62nVFLgJ04qsAq85NQfdyR9X4CdzdXhjL0MveENPd/s4896/DSC04036.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEn1cWhpmcGzurEhIV5F8DHVxa-Z2UdhuievRJZPFmLAxvLkD_eC441Nb73GOAcL6YNfZAJ2ex8672AmQKH8Lty_UfgLXUVPZOrSNus6_l6gddVtE7BOSpcHEAfVeQyrzDW0Ti_Cr_oU4t_fGLmsV62nVFLgJ04qsAq85NQfdyR9X4CdzdXhjL0MveENPd/s320/DSC04036.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>There are four brewing vessels per brew stream: Mash Conversion Vessel, Mash Kettle, Lauter Tun and Wort Kettle. The have a hop separator (screw and screens) before whirlpooling. Spent hops are mixed in with the spent grains and go to farmers. The brew length is 600hl. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdsCqj-DvbKnr1Shv-tLeR3xmKAjjnKbf8Vjw7f0nSH5o_TgygMNGzYaYekO4es6BY7VsiQJN5lfZX20o4vgtKsmYTcE3e9-yOMgtlnOAztCDcfVwpHkvhVZ4KceScyp6PIaoaXzEXs0pzAWK95z_bkJYFB-KnWlSj8L_sH2PxCpvfwjBRVn5D0KhzBleg/s4896/DSC04031.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdsCqj-DvbKnr1Shv-tLeR3xmKAjjnKbf8Vjw7f0nSH5o_TgygMNGzYaYekO4es6BY7VsiQJN5lfZX20o4vgtKsmYTcE3e9-yOMgtlnOAztCDcfVwpHkvhVZ4KceScyp6PIaoaXzEXs0pzAWK95z_bkJYFB-KnWlSj8L_sH2PxCpvfwjBRVn5D0KhzBleg/w400-h300/DSC04031.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Your chance to improve your knowledge of Czech brewing terms</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />For Budweiser Budvar it's 10 tonnes of lager malt and approximately 120kg of whole cone Saaz/Žatec hops which are added by hand. So it's a SMaSH (Single Malt and Single Hop) beer, something I try and avoid as a professional brewer because it leaves you vulnerable to supply shortages and seasonal crop variability. They have three hop additions, at start of lautering, at start of boil and near the end of the boil. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLz4GTm7gwSidajSfdgs7pfgIb7_0pzwhNpR5sHRJeh53fCOaY5p_LeZ8NmCfqUSwNJyvuh2CTjra4uLPIrdyK4fXqmXnDOIknWbNzaV1KJYdCK9eJsgwjrSg13EYRoC-GLmJsR6TCwB-PwTWta4Ojc8Ygc7avqQCvO1TgX9Z8ozksT6CK-5NgoSsQLzxl/s4896/DSC04041.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLz4GTm7gwSidajSfdgs7pfgIb7_0pzwhNpR5sHRJeh53fCOaY5p_LeZ8NmCfqUSwNJyvuh2CTjra4uLPIrdyK4fXqmXnDOIknWbNzaV1KJYdCK9eJsgwjrSg13EYRoC-GLmJsR6TCwB-PwTWta4Ojc8Ygc7avqQCvO1TgX9Z8ozksT6CK-5NgoSsQLzxl/s320/DSC04041.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The beer has a colour of 10 EBC and though (apart from the hop additions) the brewhouse is highly automated they still run wort through the taps at times as it adds 1 EBC of colour due to oxidation. They don't believe in hot side aeration problems! The bitterness is 22 IBU. </div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjor94YUB4Cglt2YFrxCwLHwx77glMYJVcnCiSVdBpMtmg50vYJ4fD_wbRKi_zWnyX5kmIA3SCEYK2gNANunzpIBBHUXoP2LY6m0YDlwHIB-huYyVRIoPKtP3FV7y4xJK3m3Ufb5pBcLdBv_iZLVjBD92nM7NProzdHBAVGitzp8ebH9o7ipWkne5dr0eOJ/s4896/DSC04043.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjor94YUB4Cglt2YFrxCwLHwx77glMYJVcnCiSVdBpMtmg50vYJ4fD_wbRKi_zWnyX5kmIA3SCEYK2gNANunzpIBBHUXoP2LY6m0YDlwHIB-huYyVRIoPKtP3FV7y4xJK3m3Ufb5pBcLdBv_iZLVjBD92nM7NProzdHBAVGitzp8ebH9o7ipWkne5dr0eOJ/s320/DSC04043.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>They collect the wort at 7°C and it rises to 12°C during fermentation, which takes 10 days for 10°P (1.040) beers and 12 days for 12°P (1.048) beers. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIHXOqo03nowKYgRIJ8YLsR7hzeaFI0_lW-FtatL5s9mV3CjAO7eHbI_1tEXSFAqgY31scLx25wnxeTtZ5QN5BIc4-Ru9l8m2v4YPELanLTtbLAQ5TMwHrTiZ-Yi7J97tCFbGkMwJqDxpuKbOtO21YTr6TLJGZuJegqq_MsFfpbQoxiO9srDfA_fSzRcOv/s4896/DSC04046.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIHXOqo03nowKYgRIJ8YLsR7hzeaFI0_lW-FtatL5s9mV3CjAO7eHbI_1tEXSFAqgY31scLx25wnxeTtZ5QN5BIc4-Ru9l8m2v4YPELanLTtbLAQ5TMwHrTiZ-Yi7J97tCFbGkMwJqDxpuKbOtO21YTr6TLJGZuJegqq_MsFfpbQoxiO9srDfA_fSzRcOv/s320/DSC04046.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Budweiser Budvar, which makes up 80% of production, is matured for 90 days at 0-3°C so they have 300,000 hl of maturation capacity. Amongst other things they've got the 90 days maturation written into the <a href="https://www.qualigeo.eu/en/product/budejovicke-pivo-pgi//">PGI (Protected Geographical Indication)</a> which will surely prevent anyone trying to brew a Budweiser elsewhere. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MgDX6ny909HDwWQYu7V1aL8BR2CzDEQy4uXijBARxHKZGTWjb00Ol7lyaJ2WV578UaUmWrR0ok8-doTpbHekwXPi2vG2LKuzZ5UVXTR65umPkC2YkiTMRhXSYqc-gZWeWVX-_Z2F2vL5LSDKsDeoDV3ZCNNpZ_5F1hH2hT_2_O-Dl2Qtk8YBtUEfET2V/s4896/DSC04047.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MgDX6ny909HDwWQYu7V1aL8BR2CzDEQy4uXijBARxHKZGTWjb00Ol7lyaJ2WV578UaUmWrR0ok8-doTpbHekwXPi2vG2LKuzZ5UVXTR65umPkC2YkiTMRhXSYqc-gZWeWVX-_Z2F2vL5LSDKsDeoDV3ZCNNpZ_5F1hH2hT_2_O-Dl2Qtk8YBtUEfET2V/s320/DSC04047.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Our hosts did deliver when we got to the maturation area.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7xVSEUMwpcpM8_KK8OMZIL9oi6bSg4NwlWhmRB8J4T57LYyvx_YIsCdmRsQd8aOcfsWLqzaAnbFOVUUdj3W_PQ7BzUFAngsCA9N3DsRAtBxbWyWBZCr-heLwB0wMAEGFLsaq5UBzE8qfVUZndA3BOMy_ePluwUKcXZDFzweHkSrrGc5-J_6juVi4Kds-/s320/DSC04062.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bring on the CPD!</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_pYPLncnMhMZ6kA2KoTOKWeyFGSbIZvwQzJSiC49_aHBCXSILdwTKlEIATRQxADD_Sm6h5MbN5I8wwqfILAzEkedbAct6CMz2VsZ_iGpT7Xhmu83hW_12LGopqB_EW0kYpn2-ozvUrqXXj4Njsxxuf68HUwKgIW2aLMArmjtTzSNqDTX2c29vCWdTjhG/s4896/DSC04064.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_pYPLncnMhMZ6kA2KoTOKWeyFGSbIZvwQzJSiC49_aHBCXSILdwTKlEIATRQxADD_Sm6h5MbN5I8wwqfILAzEkedbAct6CMz2VsZ_iGpT7Xhmu83hW_12LGopqB_EW0kYpn2-ozvUrqXXj4Njsxxuf68HUwKgIW2aLMArmjtTzSNqDTX2c29vCWdTjhG/s320/DSC04064.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Z6entZ5h1yQ_pp3VKgwj1skU2AI14KfthYmsPHOHuKv83KKC2nA88lDYtw5kSgzuO1ya9kN6y2ujAgPkHmcBdFo2txIFQvvw594Bs0EbHEYzItt_uOHsMlhPeTly5y7Zg40-XWi9wjK6PHjQYC9AfP-nE0FELDwemTlBTieQBhz6SS8utEpkvGSQK0W5/s4896/DSC04063.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Z6entZ5h1yQ_pp3VKgwj1skU2AI14KfthYmsPHOHuKv83KKC2nA88lDYtw5kSgzuO1ya9kN6y2ujAgPkHmcBdFo2txIFQvvw594Bs0EbHEYzItt_uOHsMlhPeTly5y7Zg40-XWi9wjK6PHjQYC9AfP-nE0FELDwemTlBTieQBhz6SS8utEpkvGSQK0W5/s320/DSC04063.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sumer is icumen in</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />We had a glass of Budweiser Budvar from the tank before moving on to try some experimental beers. <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXHlomcJjhywS5B1KX7TIJOXLYBFAjBxkVdClM3loNTbc1jk8PPPLcIMSQw4kSp6rz1cGWR_01ajXGr5Boi8V8zjLIxxbgbnhq0ZaTTrv25WbwaW0uCpJVvOdnvYIDyBQ0aP8nCY1Ev3htNfCvJhn4j3sDELbBhz-H8o1v51kn-k_lv1vZVExQY6tc0nVi/s4080/IMG_20230526_110325565.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXHlomcJjhywS5B1KX7TIJOXLYBFAjBxkVdClM3loNTbc1jk8PPPLcIMSQw4kSp6rz1cGWR_01ajXGr5Boi8V8zjLIxxbgbnhq0ZaTTrv25WbwaW0uCpJVvOdnvYIDyBQ0aP8nCY1Ev3htNfCvJhn4j3sDELbBhz-H8o1v51kn-k_lv1vZVExQY6tc0nVi/s320/IMG_20230526_110325565.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The brewer showing us round brought his woolly hat for the cellars, which I'm sure those in shorts and t-shirts were jealous of. I can smugly state I'd brought a fleece.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>They had three tanks filled with beer from hop trials. One of them we were told was a cross of Saaz and Jester, which isn't physically possible what with brewing "varieties" being female plants but still, interesting all the same. We we left to help ourselves to the trial beers and at this stage I was reminded that there's always more to learn about beer. One of people in the first group managed to get separated when they left so was forced to stay with the second group until we left. I guess he was going "<a href="http://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-visit-to-plzensky-prazdroj-brewery.html">full gas</a>". Whether it was a happy accident or masterstroke I couldn't say, but it is something I'll be remembering for future brewery visits. </div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1F7Ie46QTuClaHC5qT-PBktdN0nrySDiZvpSJCXwplmNCQsKzu-hbNbeSnSqPI66y7Zel36EGraEx5gS-ShBwB9SEl2RDWeseJtsGadWMDHjnWwFkZB8bFawlwvvtb8ob20sO19IHYFZTCc8QFIF1G_WhQaioemsYLXCldA9sZZgU92E__ZWLd0jL7Bk/s4080/IMG_20230526_111805926.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1F7Ie46QTuClaHC5qT-PBktdN0nrySDiZvpSJCXwplmNCQsKzu-hbNbeSnSqPI66y7Zel36EGraEx5gS-ShBwB9SEl2RDWeseJtsGadWMDHjnWwFkZB8bFawlwvvtb8ob20sO19IHYFZTCc8QFIF1G_WhQaioemsYLXCldA9sZZgU92E__ZWLd0jL7Bk/s320/IMG_20230526_111805926.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>See the joy that doing CPD brings!</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>One thing I didn't find out was why exactly a brewery mostly making a 5% ABV beer chose to make its hop trial beers <i>which will pretty much only be drunk by brewery staff</i> 8% ABV. A complete mystery that one. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifp-Gd9fGnDUEvKDoljtKC0njeyHQObp8lhdsEGQHwSN5eNOMaKLDDDln9hQS7UnOEevHCWk4QiHKarePyeuBNtnjxYokZnNj-fzkdG-ZWt2ITNOtWPGeDnDadNV57Ta2hUWbjh1mpry_xFk1CP045RmWbYio26O7zYDk0wAIiy0snUsTZ29omb_i7AeKi/s4896/DSC04071.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifp-Gd9fGnDUEvKDoljtKC0njeyHQObp8lhdsEGQHwSN5eNOMaKLDDDln9hQS7UnOEevHCWk4QiHKarePyeuBNtnjxYokZnNj-fzkdG-ZWt2ITNOtWPGeDnDadNV57Ta2hUWbjh1mpry_xFk1CP045RmWbYio26O7zYDk0wAIiy0snUsTZ29omb_i7AeKi/s320/DSC04071.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Unlike most large breweries they still used manual flow plates instead of automated values for controlling beer/wort/yeast/cleaning fluid movements to and from tanks. This also caused us some confusion until it was pointed out to us that tanks were only used four times a year!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavQD05Isaiq1G2CSNrdtRX8lCuhG5ZUVy4ySLfoU6gJcilVHUGXP3NtWZvndwTdvPnLEIK0beIcRujL69nUHIWL_lPvEdNbRQXlwZ4waPeIHCKpE3P0Izyzb9JX-sDtGSaH8g3d0TtbCDlYqYkaNiiwI6kmE4xka0X1eaUWZOKi5xUidGXPWTFR-b0zg5/s4896/DSC04072.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavQD05Isaiq1G2CSNrdtRX8lCuhG5ZUVy4ySLfoU6gJcilVHUGXP3NtWZvndwTdvPnLEIK0beIcRujL69nUHIWL_lPvEdNbRQXlwZ4waPeIHCKpE3P0Izyzb9JX-sDtGSaH8g3d0TtbCDlYqYkaNiiwI6kmE4xka0X1eaUWZOKi5xUidGXPWTFR-b0zg5/s320/DSC04072.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>On the way to packaging to my surprise and delight I saw there's a brewery railway. I never even knew I had an inner train spotter.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhziryLXIOSJI3rnUfHP9-ZvmYEx6_VcNu-nJAcduypLCfnhjEqrrF_PYQ_brUZrt7aXGEhdW2t3W7uM85d5ertvvu7Vguu0DIp99btQ98QX6VUeoqdhwFJI6J3El4JY8HEGVcizXeTSiioCskCAsGWQz9mzF9_vvykkCpHTssoxhPv-wS4lA9WE0Kg89/s4896/DSC04078.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhziryLXIOSJI3rnUfHP9-ZvmYEx6_VcNu-nJAcduypLCfnhjEqrrF_PYQ_brUZrt7aXGEhdW2t3W7uM85d5ertvvu7Vguu0DIp99btQ98QX6VUeoqdhwFJI6J3El4JY8HEGVcizXeTSiioCskCAsGWQz9mzF9_vvykkCpHTssoxhPv-wS4lA9WE0Kg89/s320/DSC04078.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>It's the sort of thing I've only seen before in brewing history books </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXKdgbFw4brnkamPB1sELQkAzbS6Muwlbeoy4G1xHh7ntMwVtJx5wpFSQK9nJsdAebf5UG0SnucRDnpUBI1VFp3gVKO4y7RmVK8wwmAkRtVXD-IFQXHRtq_hJZQmZkBDQNE2u1clFbmYi43MDK6qD25YM6DOiD5UZ115Dt0PjDNC15Rgl5D4pOom0LnayO/s4080/IMG_20230526_120904325_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXKdgbFw4brnkamPB1sELQkAzbS6Muwlbeoy4G1xHh7ntMwVtJx5wpFSQK9nJsdAebf5UG0SnucRDnpUBI1VFp3gVKO4y7RmVK8wwmAkRtVXD-IFQXHRtq_hJZQmZkBDQNE2u1clFbmYi43MDK6qD25YM6DOiD5UZ115Dt0PjDNC15Rgl5D4pOom0LnayO/s320/IMG_20230526_120904325_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>They use a kieselguhr filter on the beer prior to packaging. They have three bottling lines, one canning line and a keg line. The bottling lines have 108 head fillers which run at 40,000 bottles per hour. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgY4I3pNum6Ylkks5wT1xbR6wNEVt_Q-wN2eUh3yBBMdKBmzA4eZWjbVazAG5jBnqdJw5DnC4Q1K0IAczjUqCPwd_jRhJkIGGtx-2j-TAFxxplUgSH7Ko2M4BJe-_S7t0HoaZQKzBolEnFcoGrfwKg3OF5M9SxmScgcAy4RU-3_XBj8g8sgvvPJUei4Zw/s4080/IMG_20230526_121335614_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgY4I3pNum6Ylkks5wT1xbR6wNEVt_Q-wN2eUh3yBBMdKBmzA4eZWjbVazAG5jBnqdJw5DnC4Q1K0IAczjUqCPwd_jRhJkIGGtx-2j-TAFxxplUgSH7Ko2M4BJe-_S7t0HoaZQKzBolEnFcoGrfwKg3OF5M9SxmScgcAy4RU-3_XBj8g8sgvvPJUei4Zw/s320/IMG_20230526_121335614_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The tunnel pasteurisers give 20-25 pasteurisation units to the beer.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dytW_KhRHN3uh0KQamW_4WzHkwvS5jtEU_iqwwhKksZHLgwILKnFH6Fo8YT8T-38ZyeEJ2bqDXFJ4MfpvWuxg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p>Then we exited via the gift shop, and I'd enjoyed myself so much I was even tempted to buy something before I remined myself that most of my wardrobe is brewery branded clothing as it is. </p></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-73942570873655489532023-07-01T09:00:00.001+01:002023-07-01T09:00:00.131+01:00A visit to Proud brewery in Plzeň<p><b>After the excitement of the <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-visit-to-plzensky-prazdroj-brewery.html">Pilsner Urquell brewery</a> we went on to <a href="https://www.pivovarproud.cz/en/history/">Proud brewery</a>, housed in the site's old power station</b>. We were an hour and a half late by the time we got there. A problem with taking groups of brewers round breweries is that progress is often slow. Too many questions!</p><p><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgQ0xjXifymC3ijEXbfb3HxxbTbE47Yl5ElgIrI5zDrvttb8sy2RNXwH5RF31dQyYHhNVIG5V004Hlq0BHGzKJ2ylt3qEAwpWZl4__QD-kL46PAESEqgoke-Kf5eUoh42BWBiObqfI1erOLduvJ3SqI3JB_U7YosJIAic-N7N1tWKzKJp30l7nOmtFsGT/s4896/DSC03995.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgQ0xjXifymC3ijEXbfb3HxxbTbE47Yl5ElgIrI5zDrvttb8sy2RNXwH5RF31dQyYHhNVIG5V004Hlq0BHGzKJ2ylt3qEAwpWZl4__QD-kL46PAESEqgoke-Kf5eUoh42BWBiObqfI1erOLduvJ3SqI3JB_U7YosJIAic-N7N1tWKzKJp30l7nOmtFsGT/s320/DSC03995.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Head Brewer<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table>Being built by a large multi-national owned brewery no expense seems to have been spared in building Proud. The work on the building alone must have cost a fortune. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxeVMgn_NfuUIwcf8NZvvFmQfaHY1HpTtu1zlRt3auAUT2Q9Cc5Eqa_-hXUKk8WkPwmLzJu16RdTCi1mfwZZJSvtCW7SMlIZ2cSZH43Xrud5hiJw_QM8y0-I6fK9thyGfECUGVROnsMQBvpBmXlYoKfyghDOI3J2MRdlS4hhTSpfJa-rblKukWwraWvgR/s4896/DSC03999.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxeVMgn_NfuUIwcf8NZvvFmQfaHY1HpTtu1zlRt3auAUT2Q9Cc5Eqa_-hXUKk8WkPwmLzJu16RdTCi1mfwZZJSvtCW7SMlIZ2cSZH43Xrud5hiJw_QM8y0-I6fK9thyGfECUGVROnsMQBvpBmXlYoKfyghDOI3J2MRdlS4hhTSpfJa-rblKukWwraWvgR/s320/DSC03999.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p>Our tour guide repeatedly told us to look out for the only tiles with hops on so I'm delighted to share the excitement with you:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxzVPde2_EvHDnJAWqjCeG-hLLyi_uSJ1BhbFZATwApJ3TaZCY2K2EMWEth_z4ATRRUi5-KGFuI8BcMkP1aGD0cQZu0K8yVNZbkJo8Jrzow-EkUhIrsp9kTOBoUb1TTp09sg5y1mezUXmnen10JsVQd6ZThm1B8036SYzisrZ0E4F27sYyepr0E7ssvuk-/s4896/DSC04003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxzVPde2_EvHDnJAWqjCeG-hLLyi_uSJ1BhbFZATwApJ3TaZCY2K2EMWEth_z4ATRRUi5-KGFuI8BcMkP1aGD0cQZu0K8yVNZbkJo8Jrzow-EkUhIrsp9kTOBoUb1TTp09sg5y1mezUXmnen10JsVQd6ZThm1B8036SYzisrZ0E4F27sYyepr0E7ssvuk-/s320/DSC04003.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p>The brewing vessels were in use so we weren't allowed near them. Boo! The first brew (an English pale ale) was in September 2020.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3EWwa1I-Wks1TRlHW-ECQdTmzahMAbOSt8h46eGqCrqyQ943UKJgfWmrEh93QG2Qey1Zcv2SpykOTVBogQPSbCEZiyggWZ8Q_589n6zr25pzJBc0Fpk9wS4BRZ_fVHgw0mliK3lBbf_-vV5Kh64uYK3R3Gh7Aw5MqYnSG1sbsrSaEiuJNpi64oj1RUg0e/s4896/DSC04002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3EWwa1I-Wks1TRlHW-ECQdTmzahMAbOSt8h46eGqCrqyQ943UKJgfWmrEh93QG2Qey1Zcv2SpykOTVBogQPSbCEZiyggWZ8Q_589n6zr25pzJBc0Fpk9wS4BRZ_fVHgw0mliK3lBbf_-vV5Kh64uYK3R3Gh7Aw5MqYnSG1sbsrSaEiuJNpi64oj1RUg0e/s320/DSC04002.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p>It's a five vessel system with whirlpool and a wort receiving vessel so they're able to get through six to nine brews a week in two to three days. They have 415 tonne malt silos, which last two months, with speciality malts in sacks and big bags. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbUrPYSZywhsQAnPUuV-RTvHxbMjm4rDHSHqhOXfgS738YAbkhR_JuBecXjImk40qvEgPq43LrkbJNu85NOmgc7sChZg5d29__0665xW5O04XIwkBSOKM5MtvIbfm-bcpK39wnsLvH5VQvFS5ckAe-FMIRr8yGigvlIL2_vRttMw9kap7vW34Y7Zyt8h-r/s4896/DSC03997.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbUrPYSZywhsQAnPUuV-RTvHxbMjm4rDHSHqhOXfgS738YAbkhR_JuBecXjImk40qvEgPq43LrkbJNu85NOmgc7sChZg5d29__0665xW5O04XIwkBSOKM5MtvIbfm-bcpK39wnsLvH5VQvFS5ckAe-FMIRr8yGigvlIL2_vRttMw9kap7vW34Y7Zyt8h-r/s320/DSC03997.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p>They have cylindro-conical vessels of 30, 60 and 90 hl capacity.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWobNm8xHkkBrhwkHvKd8VeUbmr7tiI1O8LSMRdJsAL3JuxmYnrR5beM-klhDOY3bhEvqWv9HCo0kDJv8E26YgBbMZCMI_QnGU-vsb_4h3CPpuz0oQ_Uy8mq-VY2try9LfbEBxp3oyZgwNi8AWzOliC6dVGquGEVvegMd6hV02hYmV8lNb_GOBpKURCqq9/s320/DSC04015.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>We had a bit more time for <strike>drinking</strike> networking here, but still not yet going <i>full gas. </i>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-50632390145114323922023-06-27T09:00:00.004+01:002023-07-01T08:32:35.807+01:00A visit to Plzeňský Prazdroj brewery<b>Being back in Pilsen all I had to do was walk across a bridge to get to to the Plzeňský Prazdroj or Pilsner Urquell brewery</b>. Someone in the group still managed to be late, but he was young enough to still enjoy the glory of oversleeping so it wasn't all bad for him. <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn68x2aVw54URQiB76pPaoUVG6EY-urQcX2hfM77w8C7dzLtAzbjj3qCnVJWx2vGQigYRI91u4E7LgOt02Ig-Pb5stlmXXbYSlkXvsz9iUXBrcv3XaVLOSpZlKXLtcW5bopS1_tanKQ6WtRVxRNU-ISR0Yg521TyC7Os87igNrbX8fDhZiqo7adTpacwAj/s4896/DSC03909.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn68x2aVw54URQiB76pPaoUVG6EY-urQcX2hfM77w8C7dzLtAzbjj3qCnVJWx2vGQigYRI91u4E7LgOt02Ig-Pb5stlmXXbYSlkXvsz9iUXBrcv3XaVLOSpZlKXLtcW5bopS1_tanKQ6WtRVxRNU-ISR0Yg521TyC7Os87igNrbX8fDhZiqo7adTpacwAj/s320/DSC03909.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>We were met by the head brewer.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibmuSTcFlUD8E2xo9mllkJ0pr47ORzKer9UE7adIrutEvnMt_eNCqwVrmuTencxg8uL8IJlMQpO-ekYV7wd1b2CWP6ORSQuXwgCtnrOcc-3vQFWpg6TYpsXxbTECITReXyZy8t5CcfHLE58Az0YEV_JRNNPMVPU1kFw8hG1E72NL2ma-W96dkR0mWzaisi/s4896/DSC03913.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibmuSTcFlUD8E2xo9mllkJ0pr47ORzKer9UE7adIrutEvnMt_eNCqwVrmuTencxg8uL8IJlMQpO-ekYV7wd1b2CWP6ORSQuXwgCtnrOcc-3vQFWpg6TYpsXxbTECITReXyZy8t5CcfHLE58Az0YEV_JRNNPMVPU1kFw8hG1E72NL2ma-W96dkR0mWzaisi/s320/DSC03913.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>And a former head brewer who gave a talk for us before the tour. In a glorious bit of non-native English he said they had more of the sample beer than they could drink so we should go "full gas" when it came to drinking. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDh8LLSvdu27TPOyHIf92nwRsY8jHaYJ_BpPW4LeEl-YRGNB669msAJHB2Euu9D5SPL7uxaezyqpK3HI5vMM0vVRRut8muojLWIw3JWUfea4FzNIsQreyF6uap0KN2MinhKiFCVUUzw3jVg9EEjcgFM26gEJu8s9So8M8So-BSIvT6sMAgFsQxWJ4ctLW/s4896/DSC03916.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDh8LLSvdu27TPOyHIf92nwRsY8jHaYJ_BpPW4LeEl-YRGNB669msAJHB2Euu9D5SPL7uxaezyqpK3HI5vMM0vVRRut8muojLWIw3JWUfea4FzNIsQreyF6uap0KN2MinhKiFCVUUzw3jVg9EEjcgFM26gEJu8s9So8M8So-BSIvT6sMAgFsQxWJ4ctLW/s320/DSC03916.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Unlike <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-visit-to-pilsner-urquell-brewery.html">last time I was there</a> we got to see the maltings. They only make Pilsner malt, no calling it extra-pale or lager malt here, with a Kolbach index of 36-37 (that's on the low side). They produce 88,000 tonnes per year, enough for all the breweries on site (as well as PU there's Gambrinus and the Proud microbrewery) and Velké Popovice.</div><div><br /></div><div>They have two steeps at 15°C over 28 hours where the moisture rises from 13-14% to 42-45%. There will be an air rest between the two steeps so the embryo in the grain can breathe. There are eight Saladin boxes with a capacity of 212 tonnes where the barley spends six days at 15-18°C. It's turned six hours after steep out and then usually every 12 hours. There are three kilns and they're all used for each piece (batch). Kilning takes 16-17 hours with a final temperature of 75-80°C. After 21 days the malt goes to the breweries. </div><div><br /></div><div>The barley variety is the Spring barley Bojos. </div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFdn-W4obyn6s2ux_fzfqIRq02tF__pMgvJqqZNxmF-jjMCxX6wlVjBMx0X2qwVrEQtZHL5nJaNLPlj0vbiNji98gpNWYtXJSV0hs1jODj-mEJ331LtIlJwFhT_ciLPfYj2UdcnIPmL0bcHiezKjmPLZBm7CuUlAsa2FjzfO4g-i6UEDKEmMDNxqewr04n/s4896/DSC03927.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFdn-W4obyn6s2ux_fzfqIRq02tF__pMgvJqqZNxmF-jjMCxX6wlVjBMx0X2qwVrEQtZHL5nJaNLPlj0vbiNji98gpNWYtXJSV0hs1jODj-mEJ331LtIlJwFhT_ciLPfYj2UdcnIPmL0bcHiezKjmPLZBm7CuUlAsa2FjzfO4g-i6UEDKEmMDNxqewr04n/s320/DSC03927.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A maltster and a Saladin box.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Then it was packaging. Lots of big machinery and bottles moving around at unfeasible speed. There are two bottling lines at 60,000 bottles per hour, a canning line at 60,000 cans per hour and a canning line at 40,000 cans an hour for specialist products (!). The bottling lines have 168 head fillers. </div><div><br /></div><div>They flash pasteurise most products, though there's a tunnel pasteuriser for some speciality products. They mostly pack in returnable 500ml bottles so there's a bottle washer. The turn around time for bottles is around one to two months. Some 330s are filled, and some recycled cans are used. Brown bottles are used for US and UK export, the rest are in "UV protection" green bottles. Beer is carbonated to 5g/l (2.5 vols)</div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwDl4uzt0ORR16qDGqjrIzhxT06o3Nm0mhkCbvF7rBLwHgwqdoUGl5eXNiz5QSae8-4m3cpNWVh2aLpS6q71g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Next we went to see the filters. They have a kieselguhr candle filter and two 72 module cross flow filters which filter 600hl/hr of high gravity beer down to 0.45 micrometres. The filter modules are changed after 400 CIPs. Pentair is paid a fee for them by hl filtered. The cross flow filters are better quality than the kieselguhr filter but cost more. </div><div><br /></div><div>There's also a PVPP filter.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8o2m3hEBMvgM0CeWG4OHu3ZwPKefAbJWyYt0Twuur5jcjVt8baI8PyyiNXpb6zybVT6fjURu00b5O_bdvfqbsUagAwu0dBmjf1_GPhwu6TmYiDz9NsLZWvhlfVqJ0Pa6qHEcBRvDWMSIOZ_2_30veNWerbW5UY2i0-7f-Iubx67ndcmwYSfOEkhk5m0WI/s4896/DSC03938.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8o2m3hEBMvgM0CeWG4OHu3ZwPKefAbJWyYt0Twuur5jcjVt8baI8PyyiNXpb6zybVT6fjURu00b5O_bdvfqbsUagAwu0dBmjf1_GPhwu6TmYiDz9NsLZWvhlfVqJ0Pa6qHEcBRvDWMSIOZ_2_30veNWerbW5UY2i0-7f-Iubx67ndcmwYSfOEkhk5m0WI/s320/DSC03938.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cross flow</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURxGphU535NFjWTwHB9NfDsRJ25vfSyp0TeoqONLce1dw4dgQTRGkLfLbbEcivt1ZoiZEE3mE6mqCzKjOd9nS_1Iz-OkSAEpV3YqblJBEuTymWO40VFVTQR8NHJqf1ImfZ1rto95TW2Rf-9-vTACgbMxWcwNPb4iRjPpMqibgXYBq-l80s7VbwBSQeEPX/s4896/DSC03939.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURxGphU535NFjWTwHB9NfDsRJ25vfSyp0TeoqONLce1dw4dgQTRGkLfLbbEcivt1ZoiZEE3mE6mqCzKjOd9nS_1Iz-OkSAEpV3YqblJBEuTymWO40VFVTQR8NHJqf1ImfZ1rto95TW2Rf-9-vTACgbMxWcwNPb4iRjPpMqibgXYBq-l80s7VbwBSQeEPX/s320/DSC03939.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Candle</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Unlike in brewing fermentation followed after filtration for us. They have 30 x 2500hl and 40 x 800hl cyclindroconical fermenting vessels and the maturation tanks are 56 x 3200hl and 28 x 5000hl CCVs. They ferment from 6° to 9°C for 14 days and mature for 20 days at 0°C (+/-1°C). Cooling is based on the PG (Present Gravity) of the beer not the diacetyl level, which is 85ppb in pack. They have 76-77% apparent attenuation and gravity drops 0.2°P (0.8°S) during maturation.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiepVYKt7l6lg_egJ-vqFT6xfdTiC_sgDcH7Vo5YD-Cql63g1MtIQbFWdz1k50AXbopV8hEoR9nQgtiPVX9CI6vHR0dGVQHqsMj0DzdJnrpdRmpWHY8EM35c_krV0srJ70qQpL-bUK0aC2MbI5ca66GbydL7c60blKc-K3qxfu6Q3JTk0Vqre8Ce6-oh-vR/s4896/DSC03944.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiepVYKt7l6lg_egJ-vqFT6xfdTiC_sgDcH7Vo5YD-Cql63g1MtIQbFWdz1k50AXbopV8hEoR9nQgtiPVX9CI6vHR0dGVQHqsMj0DzdJnrpdRmpWHY8EM35c_krV0srJ70qQpL-bUK0aC2MbI5ca66GbydL7c60blKc-K3qxfu6Q3JTk0Vqre8Ce6-oh-vR/s320/DSC03944.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>As you might expect there were lots of pipes and automated mix proof valves. </div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5U4O21SUc_WQnABTqOguIxb2bpvRTHrJvq7byfvk9BXx6Xn5w4rwekF3umHMK_OGF7BdzOSsj0bNYoA1vtFGq6hH0SsOztNrA7wGax9qD1C4s0eNy_Y6cNn5oqk3ECP_S1mIJGol74a0QblNjgWblfub2d_JU4WZDtRAkE1jfatAKa50gElRo4inENaSs/s4896/DSC03949.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5U4O21SUc_WQnABTqOguIxb2bpvRTHrJvq7byfvk9BXx6Xn5w4rwekF3umHMK_OGF7BdzOSsj0bNYoA1vtFGq6hH0SsOztNrA7wGax9qD1C4s0eNy_Y6cNn5oqk3ECP_S1mIJGol74a0QblNjgWblfub2d_JU4WZDtRAkE1jfatAKa50gElRo4inENaSs/s320/DSC03949.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One's gone red</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Our hosts were thorough so se even got to see the cooperage:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM6pVSagFNu7nrc3XdTzgiLvRRwMNDMCsw8QDkVCy7sqJlBdIG3OHbUhxeTqpYMLSW_OWaJ75JMNGHgUYTuc9iystRC20JWuqrM448IIQjCBb2bxlFbWeIXwxruLUL7FRUvaIS1X0pbKEoDQSOh8S9N_fwwot0KIlL3NFQzHRk0a79LYLeqYrJE5duZowi/s4896/DSC03956.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM6pVSagFNu7nrc3XdTzgiLvRRwMNDMCsw8QDkVCy7sqJlBdIG3OHbUhxeTqpYMLSW_OWaJ75JMNGHgUYTuc9iystRC20JWuqrM448IIQjCBb2bxlFbWeIXwxruLUL7FRUvaIS1X0pbKEoDQSOh8S9N_fwwot0KIlL3NFQzHRk0a79LYLeqYrJE5duZowi/s320/DSC03956.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTk-S2TYnB74YkzFApwjwKzuKo1mqpB1i5epBK3QcVavz2540R5LZjw_5VfKFt3TL4Y7socHrwZx-YZ9DozJ2juBp5wlqAaxSAjZBPOfFHxgsbNjO0dOFceN577Uq3Yu6n_VEevv58Mc4aQxxOqIbUKW-_tbULXqtkrToApMfir4oshDGyOwqQYigwlvQI/s4896/DSC03960.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTk-S2TYnB74YkzFApwjwKzuKo1mqpB1i5epBK3QcVavz2540R5LZjw_5VfKFt3TL4Y7socHrwZx-YZ9DozJ2juBp5wlqAaxSAjZBPOfFHxgsbNjO0dOFceN577Uq3Yu6n_VEevv58Mc4aQxxOqIbUKW-_tbULXqtkrToApMfir4oshDGyOwqQYigwlvQI/s320/DSC03960.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>And then be got to the brewhouse. Or rather brewhouses, this is the old, disused one:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkC7vW4ESuCChxiPYgzUhDfw_ClQCmv4BEl8vJ6Fv2Admwj-5JOSjh8_SjS2NPRFGD8gsI7mwKUafNf_lAH9alsT2w6oXUp72QfJJhSHLKGiLCYDvmpdLvcIsEugcUtcKJFLOmm3Wsj51x-qoaMIXm70F_CVHqMOUpBX3YVCKBRP6aCQFB9NuxuWWYNeaS/s4896/DSC03965.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkC7vW4ESuCChxiPYgzUhDfw_ClQCmv4BEl8vJ6Fv2Admwj-5JOSjh8_SjS2NPRFGD8gsI7mwKUafNf_lAH9alsT2w6oXUp72QfJJhSHLKGiLCYDvmpdLvcIsEugcUtcKJFLOmm3Wsj51x-qoaMIXm70F_CVHqMOUpBX3YVCKBRP6aCQFB9NuxuWWYNeaS/s320/DSC03965.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ7OhStg0NNgyupJ6z3H4A0vPpM-RBf1Pwcht2lj5Jw7c2AAJyEOpHUDuHoCeiezUj5DaZ1BKWulkKazHR1WupJYoDQdZvGCMtC8WJRAyS3XZFjtP-g-r0_67t-l2Fs_zUAP9ApkTKeboBE_FZcDFasZeW_9duqnHxgaCKxQLuz5oMdbE9zfoxBUHIIxP1/s4896/DSC03968.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNoVIm__0rry3PvM3KisoCsnt3OzoBkw2iCscn3jNvFke-zs4Jk1DJgnBEkTBEwlbwFhEU4i9uYz7hyxaOqUJS1ozIUkVhilUPkK9ipUpKRNlMWuH7ronYZEtTaoFOXDHJibgRfaRGB4Ly0wsaUibNiheGaHb47E-hRSvLn5ZJWrvns3jX-tjm5auJwF74/s320/DSC03972.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wort kettles</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq95CcxbnaBmsW5qmKxEDmIj1oNCBWxn38jcGB_2SBRQ1JM7-tGSsABoORRpIKp4y94qR8WkKfeKhYTfGeYqa5AV-cbUeP8qeXISNHTK7-B7rfVYeECdG5y2nsMeO6cKgcqT8143r_QnDOd84RWzA9fkIoOyTl0BRs6v8iTFsv1qU24KJGskKuZquLMZPm/s4896/DSC03973.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq95CcxbnaBmsW5qmKxEDmIj1oNCBWxn38jcGB_2SBRQ1JM7-tGSsABoORRpIKp4y94qR8WkKfeKhYTfGeYqa5AV-cbUeP8qeXISNHTK7-B7rfVYeECdG5y2nsMeO6cKgcqT8143r_QnDOd84RWzA9fkIoOyTl0BRs6v8iTFsv1qU24KJGskKuZquLMZPm/s320/DSC03973.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="text-align: center;">10.5m diameter lauter tuns and 10.5 tonnes of malt per batch. Loading is 150kg/m2 and lautering takes 2.5 hours. OG is 12.2°P (1.049).</span><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRd7LFyhlivB936Z2T5KgUpwXCqwPiDMR-vc8l967qCOwLMHqZqEeLURvZBtSzRJzDFo1QSvRyEj_zZziNR-NwXyKtx2q9_cmJNOfqlEQTAsJyWKEIuvxvNeUlpiIIiLgbP1Gv7lt1o61lOBMuMCk9R5xZQwiJyXTrPrxC6tyXpjL5YPTAonD4TxgePul-/s4896/DSC03975.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRd7LFyhlivB936Z2T5KgUpwXCqwPiDMR-vc8l967qCOwLMHqZqEeLURvZBtSzRJzDFo1QSvRyEj_zZziNR-NwXyKtx2q9_cmJNOfqlEQTAsJyWKEIuvxvNeUlpiIIiLgbP1Gv7lt1o61lOBMuMCk9R5xZQwiJyXTrPrxC6tyXpjL5YPTAonD4TxgePul-/s320/DSC03975.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mash kettles</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Brewlength is up to 625hl. They do 24 x 600hl brews per day, running 24/7 making 5.2 million hl a year. Saaz/žatec, sladek and premiant hops are used. There three additions at the start of the boil and 60 and 80 minutes in to it. From which I'm going to infer it's a 90 minute boil. </div><br /><div>Then it was into the cellars, there are 9km of them. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9R6n7FPv0h-BQv27afLe_OSYpkBzOYtYitJijvAo0WqT93mFd-49gMzudsmpimwZlToYNu4Dh1vCQi5YPGLNo6-8xWAYMfYKOst48FlVo4o5AdrqlfRfZJPanWeYkTqnR7SAOhsmSeymY1YNjTa93y1u-ZZJES03F3hfOcsGOWecoc9vdf1yAzZ8mJixB/s4896/DSC03979.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9R6n7FPv0h-BQv27afLe_OSYpkBzOYtYitJijvAo0WqT93mFd-49gMzudsmpimwZlToYNu4Dh1vCQi5YPGLNo6-8xWAYMfYKOst48FlVo4o5AdrqlfRfZJPanWeYkTqnR7SAOhsmSeymY1YNjTa93y1u-ZZJES03F3hfOcsGOWecoc9vdf1yAzZ8mJixB/s320/DSC03979.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQko4u3g9CWYxZUg3vYV8RUCDZa5X5GRGGqI6ylIEN9lpifu-liDFhBGLidw2xkEQZRs7VWelrRCSl7AwsrbuFf9c4iS0Q_OK6sB02vORCSO9yxSXpFqzaXF94fnWxjMnj26EMES85viCPiv8B7D3t5kXQQQ0CoBbWBOUmGqJlrQDe1Q12YuPLIjrYiFH/s4896/DSC03980.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQko4u3g9CWYxZUg3vYV8RUCDZa5X5GRGGqI6ylIEN9lpifu-liDFhBGLidw2xkEQZRs7VWelrRCSl7AwsrbuFf9c4iS0Q_OK6sB02vORCSO9yxSXpFqzaXF94fnWxjMnj26EMES85viCPiv8B7D3t5kXQQQ0CoBbWBOUmGqJlrQDe1Q12YuPLIjrYiFH/s320/DSC03980.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Some beer is still fermented in open wooden fermenters and matured in wooden barrels, which I guess keeps the coopers in work. We're told they do this to ensure that the taste isn't different from when it's made in the modern vessels. I don't believe a word of this myself, firstly because fermenting and maturing in giant CCVs is definitely going to make a difference and secondly because it does actually taste different. I didn't notice any diacetyl and the bitterness came through a lot more. Lovely it was. Sadly we were running late so didn't get to go "full gas" on the beer which is a shame. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvC7M8F92LL4uUueemA6oFCkkPCoxG3FkYjn2kKEmMtOpag7PrAKhwq5Ku2uo69kOVRXyZSPDjeD82-SLl_7riHLKllHS90wbEBbeZVgmA9SDM5jhbI7D-hH244bvsm0UqDb6fb5_AWa9daa0F8hCHZQhwSj58_a2TDE8D1MlxU-_XYtW6fdWZfb3Eaghr/s4896/DSC03985.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvC7M8F92LL4uUueemA6oFCkkPCoxG3FkYjn2kKEmMtOpag7PrAKhwq5Ku2uo69kOVRXyZSPDjeD82-SLl_7riHLKllHS90wbEBbeZVgmA9SDM5jhbI7D-hH244bvsm0UqDb6fb5_AWa9daa0F8hCHZQhwSj58_a2TDE8D1MlxU-_XYtW6fdWZfb3Eaghr/s320/DSC03985.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>If you want to look at the fermentation profile in wooden vats here it is:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiKnSsoTwOhMmDOPJ_i9S1h8A6VlY29gNJbO28lrLRbAOevEVuoBZ1b04GvKAeGGMJxPxEIbAztk98IwWk_E0EGWI7KDjZHzhyazIBvY22CUCES9IKVCnD-2hi2MuBBaMcpFfVk8QZrkSvkO1ANGI0rJ2bY87GmdntlvTTcVdMdT7N1Y5M1KumXfgeQAUS/s4896/DSC03987.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiKnSsoTwOhMmDOPJ_i9S1h8A6VlY29gNJbO28lrLRbAOevEVuoBZ1b04GvKAeGGMJxPxEIbAztk98IwWk_E0EGWI7KDjZHzhyazIBvY22CUCES9IKVCnD-2hi2MuBBaMcpFfVk8QZrkSvkO1ANGI0rJ2bY87GmdntlvTTcVdMdT7N1Y5M1KumXfgeQAUS/s320/DSC03987.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5T5v1mQ9C8z2oIpd6vTIpdZlU599n8wAEqvUSKnQ5QXiU1qPEIAsQOVAqTWEBI7reLLwDHuWFu8A4B94KYXmnnxj_VXC_tiYkTHDl_bSLoM0Gs2shXwOWSdV_g1DLsnBHQPOmsqfgD-h90qLWnXCxD8kMfBKGBWYwi4388Ib2mDC5VdyTaBSlWU6Ylda/s4896/DSC03988.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5T5v1mQ9C8z2oIpd6vTIpdZlU599n8wAEqvUSKnQ5QXiU1qPEIAsQOVAqTWEBI7reLLwDHuWFu8A4B94KYXmnnxj_VXC_tiYkTHDl_bSLoM0Gs2shXwOWSdV_g1DLsnBHQPOmsqfgD-h90qLWnXCxD8kMfBKGBWYwi4388Ib2mDC5VdyTaBSlWU6Ylda/s320/DSC03988.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>They use their own lager yeast strain which is used for four generations. </div><div><br /></div></div><div>As to the famous Pilsner water I'm not entirely sure what they do with it. We weren't with anyone technical when water was discussed and though I can't fault our tour guide's English I'm not sure about his technical knowledge. He said the water has its iron removed so it is deionised. Which left me confused. Was it iron or ions? Probably the former I would guess from something we learnt later in the study tour, and Pilsen water is famous low in ions anyway. </div><div><br /></div><div>After all this we went to the onsite microbrewery but I'll leave that for later...</div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-26049177221539510082023-06-25T09:38:00.001+01:002023-06-25T09:49:03.327+01:00A visit to Matuška brewery<p><b>I do like to keep up with my Continuing Professional Development</b>. So how could I resist the IBD Study Tour to the Czech Republic?</p><p>Compared to previous study tours there were less breweries than before but it did include a couple of biggies, both physically and historically. The first one however was not big. </p><p><a href="https://www.pivovarmatuska.cz/en/">Pivovar Matuška</a> is a family business founded in 2009. I had come across their beer previously when in Prague, an American hoppy number that told me the brewery was definitely <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2013/11/time-for-working-craft-beer-definition.html">craft</a>. I learnt their first beer was a dark lager which is still in production though, so a combination of traditional and modern. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivxBbuiI1Y1tjeWf3lSyDX3zWQrBaSGZ9TBDEa_4xzaPRotyXKT7NX4zRrv2BGlBo0CRlshWNogwVVKsZWYpNx9oIqy-iXnisVZR5L3Bow8_sQWTcJzJmNf4LjizuCRNlKajUA5CnlMge65cTu61kQGGS4PqyGu6QKrqRxn8brJBhVGBWTEKP7yEAjffFE/s4896/DSC03878.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivxBbuiI1Y1tjeWf3lSyDX3zWQrBaSGZ9TBDEa_4xzaPRotyXKT7NX4zRrv2BGlBo0CRlshWNogwVVKsZWYpNx9oIqy-iXnisVZR5L3Bow8_sQWTcJzJmNf4LjizuCRNlKajUA5CnlMge65cTu61kQGGS4PqyGu6QKrqRxn8brJBhVGBWTEKP7yEAjffFE/s320/DSC03878.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>They were in the process of commissioning a combined bottle and can filler when we visited which did take a while to get my head round. I suspect it will take them a while too. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6lm_rbsMAFCXxD8Nkfs55LeFYwFdzySJaDZnewfvlACYFN283vEJP_SUWrxQYU298Gf697lV4-I5nkqOSFxyPS8ZsL8ayhzu1fMnYAaP08vJ_hvc3mDGLZmmURUZ7mWQLQ5u5TMFOAO0aH9YTczq11AcPkFog-kFVPZSS6lAAcqcavxoeBUVoMPGknlSR/s4896/DSC03881.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6lm_rbsMAFCXxD8Nkfs55LeFYwFdzySJaDZnewfvlACYFN283vEJP_SUWrxQYU298Gf697lV4-I5nkqOSFxyPS8ZsL8ayhzu1fMnYAaP08vJ_hvc3mDGLZmmURUZ7mWQLQ5u5TMFOAO0aH9YTczq11AcPkFog-kFVPZSS6lAAcqcavxoeBUVoMPGknlSR/s320/DSC03881.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div>The brew length is 30hl. They decoction mash, mostly one, sometimes two and occasionally three. The double decoction take 12 hours and the triple 16! The elegantly simple infusion mash generally takes only one hour! </div><div><br /></div><div>They have a two vessel brewery to add to the joy of decoction mashing. They also don't have steam mains so have a steam generator under the kettle. If I've understood my notes rightly for double decoctions the mash goes in to the kettle and after the first rest two thirds is pumped over to the Lauter Tun and the remaining third is boiled before the contents of the Lauter are returned to the kettle for mixing. Then after the second mash rest two thirds is boiled before the next re-mix and rest. </div><div><br /></div><div> Decoction mashing allows different temperature rests during the mash, which for a triple decoction mash will lower the pH, breakdown protein and breakdown starch at the different stages. I'm glad people still do it, but I'm also glad I don't have to! Hurrah for liquor treatments and properly modified malt!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVtnNPnN16EP88sbNpGm7x66xPBu9e1C27whmm4W1CO-81PkiVD5uuRwwwDu7rPMdc6Df1feJ6CrXqCx1szHS9yZwNUwmL5ae3XHfnIzHKQ8zdm_lXEgKBZPW-udEUux9T4nQtt1XD-L4_AmWHsEo0v90IJYdkDi2z_-AeSXfnNDubNcPn1lm1ZKqEip_/s4896/DSC03890.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVtnNPnN16EP88sbNpGm7x66xPBu9e1C27whmm4W1CO-81PkiVD5uuRwwwDu7rPMdc6Df1feJ6CrXqCx1szHS9yZwNUwmL5ae3XHfnIzHKQ8zdm_lXEgKBZPW-udEUux9T4nQtt1XD-L4_AmWHsEo0v90IJYdkDi2z_-AeSXfnNDubNcPn1lm1ZKqEip_/s320/DSC03890.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>They have 30 - 50hl cylindro-conical unitanks and do seven brews a week. Thirty beers are made a year, with California Pale Ale making up 20% of production. They don't filter or pasteurise and give the beer a shelf life of just two months. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24GqbC-7TBdBsQNCabP8jTlP80BPpwfv5fRFEUqLGVLzCVIKZyaGK-prGrafboAR8iXPkEUQYXejICYzHwBH5pYezuwAL2ZgNoMd7YyJJmUxa7AS6BGn0dhMiruOBeqVXozcUlPKEkYROrZVZ0CiSav33jQGxY8Ia0XEyRhSWQ7rDAwB1KyOA8CRtIoJQ/s4896/DSC03894.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24GqbC-7TBdBsQNCabP8jTlP80BPpwfv5fRFEUqLGVLzCVIKZyaGK-prGrafboAR8iXPkEUQYXejICYzHwBH5pYezuwAL2ZgNoMd7YyJJmUxa7AS6BGn0dhMiruOBeqVXozcUlPKEkYROrZVZ0CiSav33jQGxY8Ia0XEyRhSWQ7rDAwB1KyOA8CRtIoJQ/s320/DSC03894.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>We had lunch of a suspiciously pink burger at the brewery but you'll be glad to hear I didn't get the shits. </div><div><br /></div><div>The brewery logo was drawn by one of the family and if you look at it long enough you can see a brewery in it.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2QPlbkFx2vxow7mT8Wb7QIg_Qnqm-ZIA4IX3gmEfMATiRA6VdCijuaQ_4VSXBdQCkySmHbu5Be3IHwSTV7HawldKEvK13_As2sivoEFNatWoe6jJ5vL-jeQ4Xf1S7nRncN9zZFMXRqbGlDKmgftQ_SK5UAc6vn23hbQtcrIkTtw_HK2gc5EfwQWspcod/s4896/DSC03905.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2QPlbkFx2vxow7mT8Wb7QIg_Qnqm-ZIA4IX3gmEfMATiRA6VdCijuaQ_4VSXBdQCkySmHbu5Be3IHwSTV7HawldKEvK13_As2sivoEFNatWoe6jJ5vL-jeQ4Xf1S7nRncN9zZFMXRqbGlDKmgftQ_SK5UAc6vn23hbQtcrIkTtw_HK2gc5EfwQWspcod/s320/DSC03905.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>We went on to Plzeň where much I poured a vast amount of CPD down my throat at <a href="https://www.plzenkaplzen.cz/?lang=en">Plzeňka Plzeň</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEvTKpRO3ACVIDiXJfp5SGnspGHpjuXuQJbvIosh_jiY5bOUck6k5TH26DYgGEYYPDcLHt-QaoU060lCE_Ue8JnAJufIrW8nKvPjlg04RXk6ZASr-vPqSeiaSmvjpL3hss056hT8oo74DsatiJ8nWpFJ7BbIB3L57SGgjQxoWEyzq27RcA1gBUxgB9g4gY/s4080/IMG_20230524_183107204.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEvTKpRO3ACVIDiXJfp5SGnspGHpjuXuQJbvIosh_jiY5bOUck6k5TH26DYgGEYYPDcLHt-QaoU060lCE_Ue8JnAJufIrW8nKvPjlg04RXk6ZASr-vPqSeiaSmvjpL3hss056hT8oo74DsatiJ8nWpFJ7BbIB3L57SGgjQxoWEyzq27RcA1gBUxgB9g4gY/s320/IMG_20230524_183107204.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>In the programme for the trip it said we were going to be shown the different Czech pours: foamy, even foamier and looks like milk. Or something like that. It didn't happen though which may or may not have been a good thing. It would have been interesting to hear about them, but it does look like a right load of old bollocks to me. <p></p><p>When all the studying was done it was back to the hotel, where I have to say I had a cracking view from my window:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHpNkwytmimgUWi_qWuSxccbdu6BZI_Ilam42cZpWmBH81gQXwz0ryUThFrD2Y4fbC6xDWoxrVd_m7Tn3wUK9vJrOrxfyJ50Bt4uOYpT_gR6veLE9avxp2Z7BWyLZPqMOzFOjj09pKefOtxcRbsMQe0CxcH8HORfpGtPjiVdEJDctDpO8cgZJgb126EECH/s4080/IMG_20230524_160206637_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHpNkwytmimgUWi_qWuSxccbdu6BZI_Ilam42cZpWmBH81gQXwz0ryUThFrD2Y4fbC6xDWoxrVd_m7Tn3wUK9vJrOrxfyJ50Bt4uOYpT_gR6veLE9avxp2Z7BWyLZPqMOzFOjj09pKefOtxcRbsMQe0CxcH8HORfpGtPjiVdEJDctDpO8cgZJgb126EECH/s320/IMG_20230524_160206637_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-3491064026247207692023-04-03T08:30:00.001+01:002023-04-03T08:30:00.176+01:00The errors of ecumenism<p><b>As a man of simple faith I do miss the old certainties we had before our Mother Church bowed to modernism and adopted an ecumenical approach</b>. But it would be a grave error to commit apostasy or embrace the heresy of sedevacantism*, paths which surely lead to an eternity in the fiery pit. So it is not my place to pass comment upon the effluent that issues from the devil's drainpipe or those so lacking in moral fibre they drink it.</p><p>But I have <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2022/10/hold-line.html">once again</a> found evidence those that say cask beer should be defended by selling less of it are making a big mistake. On a recent trip to Sheffield I saw a glorious line of nine (9) hand pumps on the bar at the <a href="https://www.thefatcat.co.uk/">Fat Cat</a>, with the small number of keg beers fonts relegated to the side of the bar where they belong. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNqWa6X_-xjlh93BX6mYtBpl1fUX9tMTMFwudvEyv966DW_l91OoHVuP5nXqKC7eT0cMZk1OY-YI5h21SsYjvt_VKKfIZ_jDl_ygs1OqrVcL2wbTuUpLua9q1cFHxWmarsw2UyvwI8izOx3pKPWAZI0nu5V2Mw4HK88rt6PkVPPznGUyso1BZDEMBqg/s4080/IMG_20230328_230815365.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNqWa6X_-xjlh93BX6mYtBpl1fUX9tMTMFwudvEyv966DW_l91OoHVuP5nXqKC7eT0cMZk1OY-YI5h21SsYjvt_VKKfIZ_jDl_ygs1OqrVcL2wbTuUpLua9q1cFHxWmarsw2UyvwI8izOx3pKPWAZI0nu5V2Mw4HK88rt6PkVPPznGUyso1BZDEMBqg/s320/IMG_20230328_230815365.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>This is surely a sensible approach that more publicans would do well to adopt. Accommodating their heathen customers but making them walk past the glory of beer served as god intended will surely benefit everyone. The heathens will have time to consider the error of their ways and turn to god's path, and the pub will sell more cask beer which will help keep it in good nick. So let us hear no more of this save cask beer by selling less of it nonsense. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* Actually one of my favourite heresies, it's gloriously bonkers. </p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-17652097047212664532023-03-04T18:30:00.001+00:002023-03-04T18:31:40.705+00:00Fable of a failed brewery<p><b>The news that the Old Dairy Brewery had gone bust didn't come as a huge surprise to those of us that knew the company. </b>It didn't mean it wasn't sad though. I spent a few years working for the company. I learnt a lot there, met some great people and had some good times. I also met some right arseholes and had some bad times, but such is life. </p><p>Exchanging messages with my ex-colleagues after the brewery closure lead to us finally getting our act together to meet up for another reunion. We went to the taproom in Tenterden, which allowed us to have a last look at the brewery before the vessels go to their new home. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUSJ2umuPFc_yNHCH250Nx84FwzaVyAETcOYUluyAF2rPDkb2MA2w29D0Ql3fCzFJatlqWdc_q3hvd5GNbfNBzG-SsSKNha8_2KASEpTNnlIzb2vVj_udOFY2zW0MXf6CNDEdaA_nfzu-rryjSZ1zFHX32qeE_-fQn6rkE76-q_vmexwXt5gfPfYIjKA/s4080/IMG_20230218_145437350.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7WS8C1cWjGI9Nl-9LBATByHEWuXaqEFrmeIUfcv-FJXox8VbwTPwd-ZfcNmNlszih1L4IF_oxLzvw6M9cpkIaD-3zLmIT0tv9y_QiTkGMxTEGitzsqLQTaoKGxojgZ4PE1JABPw3a7dL7k0_XXba-ryU2BdZkJXRzMttLhYE6ipZu9iYzc16dMcDHAA/s4080/IMG_20230218_134014265_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7WS8C1cWjGI9Nl-9LBATByHEWuXaqEFrmeIUfcv-FJXox8VbwTPwd-ZfcNmNlszih1L4IF_oxLzvw6M9cpkIaD-3zLmIT0tv9y_QiTkGMxTEGitzsqLQTaoKGxojgZ4PE1JABPw3a7dL7k0_XXba-ryU2BdZkJXRzMttLhYE6ipZu9iYzc16dMcDHAA/s320/IMG_20230218_134014265_HDR.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">They've done a good job with the taproom, and it's quite pub like, which is good for Tenterden where be pubs are a bit restauranty. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4EA9NHHl9dpKw14MJX7O7opYrKNICH2EgNSXt5GP1kaLAEThHt0qyg1CsT8iA2HEKcs96LJJPCjXzFEAYxHp4S8qq8eLQes6tZBHXbOc4bdPmPE6P-ucMBM1xUZJUlprWcOa2T9v3ZKSW7449oZbGGai2yw8AiLL65-BymjBjVliSwenMHm68JYGAYg/s4080/IMG_20230218_135125420.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4EA9NHHl9dpKw14MJX7O7opYrKNICH2EgNSXt5GP1kaLAEThHt0qyg1CsT8iA2HEKcs96LJJPCjXzFEAYxHp4S8qq8eLQes6tZBHXbOc4bdPmPE6P-ucMBM1xUZJUlprWcOa2T9v3ZKSW7449oZbGGai2yw8AiLL65-BymjBjVliSwenMHm68JYGAYg/s320/IMG_20230218_135125420.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Old pump clips on the wall brought back a few memories, once again some good some bad!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUSJ2umuPFc_yNHCH250Nx84FwzaVyAETcOYUluyAF2rPDkb2MA2w29D0Ql3fCzFJatlqWdc_q3hvd5GNbfNBzG-SsSKNha8_2KASEpTNnlIzb2vVj_udOFY2zW0MXf6CNDEdaA_nfzu-rryjSZ1zFHX32qeE_-fQn6rkE76-q_vmexwXt5gfPfYIjKA/s320/IMG_20230218_145437350.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Though mostly good, obviously</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Old Dairy beers are now being contract brewed, and whoever's doing it seemed to be doing a decent job. The staff were great and it was good to catch up with old friends. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQvNMCj9rzzLK4EtfR2I1muKNb9GoLHDN1DRodDyZu1SZipyOj8zLTqE0CNkD91rsR_OfJDBFdge5QUOXUe1pK-xeaYQCEdA59Z5GPOVl8p71tzXcpL3FHZngxfqZKUs5bRLpykUtJfHdWTDRms7y3ygRZVLVFdzrM8ZZ8JW4YDgJOc0eQzOYKDaj_A/s960/FB_IMG_1676829576483.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQvNMCj9rzzLK4EtfR2I1muKNb9GoLHDN1DRodDyZu1SZipyOj8zLTqE0CNkD91rsR_OfJDBFdge5QUOXUe1pK-xeaYQCEdA59Z5GPOVl8p71tzXcpL3FHZngxfqZKUs5bRLpykUtJfHdWTDRms7y3ygRZVLVFdzrM8ZZ8JW4YDgJOc0eQzOYKDaj_A/s320/FB_IMG_1676829576483.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>photo by Sean Calnan</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-37989071939113162902022-12-31T08:39:00.002+00:002022-12-31T10:22:01.790+00:00Golden Pints 2022<p><i>This morning dew, don't it take like wine to you</i></p><p><i>In this brand-new world so brave and true.</i></p><p><i>This golden pint is gleaming like it's just been born</i></p><p><i>In a brave new world, a brave new world ... out of the blue</i></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_r_Bb7MgLF9VUSxo_L9PUCXBadDsJhVsCqPsvQQeuXp2dAvI7n9ETOxgp1F9zM0jhDo5i6CCNWSKaUXTISCOkMwBT2ZZDwHruRgMhqYkCpGz2QLvUzy0mNEwx3FRwDk7guRuaFzSRq8r68u8Xxe3tYS1wbAomnh4r9el7IkZmXJLZgsf60zn6aWi9Q/s850/golden_pints_2022.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="850" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_r_Bb7MgLF9VUSxo_L9PUCXBadDsJhVsCqPsvQQeuXp2dAvI7n9ETOxgp1F9zM0jhDo5i6CCNWSKaUXTISCOkMwBT2ZZDwHruRgMhqYkCpGz2QLvUzy0mNEwx3FRwDk7guRuaFzSRq8r68u8Xxe3tYS1wbAomnh4r9el7IkZmXJLZgsf60zn6aWi9Q/w400-h225/golden_pints_2022.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://boakandbailey.com/2022/12/golden-pints-2022-notes-on-an-almost-normal-year/">Pic from B&B</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>Best UK Cask Beer:</b></p><p>It's <a href="http://www.thurstonsbrewery.co.uk/">Thurston's</a> Horsell Hop, their green hop beer, that wins this year. Outstanding stuff!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best UK Keg Beer:</b></p><p>There have been a few occasions this year where I've had to suckle at the devil's drainpipe. Can I remember any as standing out? No, I cannot. My slackness with the blogging doesn't help either. I went to Curious and had a session lager there. Went to Beavertown too but they're tossers. And I was back on the Bermondsey beer mile at one point too. Oh, I know, <a href="https://madeofengland.co.uk/hiver/">Hiver Fabal</a>! It's one of mine so definitely that. </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Best UK Bottled Beer:</b></p><p>I did get given a case for xmas, which shot it to the top of the rankings: <a href="https://www.ridgewaybrewery.co.uk/">Ridgeway</a> Very Bad Elf.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best UK Canned Beer:</b></p><p>I canned beer for the first time this year which was all very exciting. It was <a href="https://hepworthbrewery.co.uk/">Hepworths</a> Charger so that. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Overseas Draught:</b></p><p>I did get overseas this year, back to the wonderful <a href="https://wildegist.nl/">Carnivale Brettanomyces</a>, though in Belgium this year. It was based at Misery brewery. Can I remember what I drank there? No. But I did have some of <a href="https://www.miserybeerco.be/">Misery's</a> so them. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Overseas Bottled Beer:</b></p><p>I've had a few oversea's bottled beers. And recently too. Which ones though? Ooo...Orval featured so that's a safe choice. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Overseas Canned Beer:</b></p><p>Did I drink any overseas canned beer? Possibly. Can I remember any? Definitely no. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Collaboration brew:</b></p><p></p><div>Can't think of any.</div><div><br /></div><br /><p><b>Best Overall Beer:</b></p><p>Horsell Hop.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Branding:</b></p><p>Thurstons as usual. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best UK Brewery:</b></p><p>And it's Thurstons again. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Overseas Brewery:</b> </p><p>That'll have to be Orval.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best New Brewery Opening 2022:</b></p><p>No idea.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Pub/Bar of the Year:</b></p><p><a href="https://whatpub.com/pubs/SHB/156/crown-horsell">The Crown</a> of course. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best New Pub/Bar Opening 2022:</b></p><p>No idea for that either. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Beer Festival of the Year:</b></p><p>The GBBF was back! Hurrah!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Supermarket of the Y</b><b>ear:</b></p><p>I've barely bought any beer from supermarkets but Booths was the best. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Independent Retailer of the Year:</b></p><p>The shop at the Hogs Back brewery. </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Online Retailer of the Year:</b></p><p>Not bought any online beer this year.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Beer Book or Magazine:</b></p><p>Hmmm...I did fairly well at reading this year. But what beery books? <a href="https://amzn.to/3WMn2eC">Drinking Up the Revolution</a> has a great title but is a bit of a curate's egg and the author is a Bolshie so he's not winning unless he apologises for Kronstadt. Oooo yes...the CAMRA book that was good: <a href="https://amzn.to/3CdMzFv">Laura Hadland 50 Years of CAMRA</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Best Blog or Website</b></p><p>Blogs still seem to be on the way down but <a href="https://boakandbailey.com/">Boak and Bailey</a> soldier on regardless so them. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Simon Johnson Award for Best Beer Twitterer:</b></p><p>Will it still be around next year? What a plonker that oligarch is. Anyway, this year I'm going with <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesksowerby">@jamesksowerby</a></p><p><br /></p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-20057105680245320452022-12-30T18:58:00.000+00:002022-12-30T18:58:03.907+00:00Truly a stupid idea<p><b>When recently seeing <a href="https://www.fields-of-the-nephilim.com/#/">The Nephs</a> I felt my throat get a little dry</b>. Must have been all the dust. When I went in search of refreshment I was surprised to see what was being advertised on the bar runner: alcoholic sparkling water. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOvLUMgPnNzV8a8Gq61HoYVCU0pU7cxZzv5H5i-wLd7lHO2Q2QTEGb6YtjOYkS-pU7PvLjvRSg0cfWgS0J29AsfWxFsM_aMalowOYcSgm39ozr3hgwph4NRFt-om6LAecWUwsYMveAswJswGKTcxLLufV89tE16VQ9aIlIV-37gffZ9RdPQEtn6yfiFA/s4128/20221217_214055.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOvLUMgPnNzV8a8Gq61HoYVCU0pU7cxZzv5H5i-wLd7lHO2Q2QTEGb6YtjOYkS-pU7PvLjvRSg0cfWgS0J29AsfWxFsM_aMalowOYcSgm39ozr3hgwph4NRFt-om6LAecWUwsYMveAswJswGKTcxLLufV89tE16VQ9aIlIV-37gffZ9RdPQEtn6yfiFA/s320/20221217_214055.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><i>Truly Hard Seltzer </i>if you were wondering which particular alcoholic sparkling water. No, I'd never heard of it either. </p><p>Hard seltzer's grew massively in the USA and were widely expected to do the same here but it just hasn't happened. Molson Coors spent millions installing a hard seltzer canning line at their Burton brewery to package <i>Three Fold</i> (and no, that's another one I'd never heard of). I have looked out for hard seltzers in supermarkets and have spotted White Claw but don't think I've seen any others the wild. </p><p>A big problem I see for hard seltzers over here is it just sounds a bit rubbish. We don't use "hard" to mean "contains alcohol" and the only time use use "seltzer" is when it has "alka-" in front of it and is used to cure hangovers. If I had a product that was basically fizzy water with added alcohol I'd go out of my way not to describe it like that. As <i>Truly </i>have had to explain on their own bar runners that the drink is alcoholic sparkling water I think they're not only on the back foot but fighting a losing battle from the start. <i>"Do you fancy an alcoholic water?" "I'd rather have a beer if it's all the same to you thanks"</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-7525306891395178092022-12-22T19:23:00.002+00:002022-12-22T20:44:17.876+00:00Brewers Congress 2022<p><b>The Brewers Congress at a new venue in London this year</b>. It was better for the stalls but not as good for the talks. I also heard they ended the posh dinner evening a lot earlier so all the speakers didn't look completely hung over this time. 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My <i>extensive </i>notes tell me: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Acetic acid to ethyl acetate</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Centrifuges not filtered</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Classic pH3.5. Grand 3.3</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Then it was Jaime Jurado to talk about CO2. I took no notes at all but I did try and get a picture of every slide. 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Perhaps the haze additive commercial spin off will follow next. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif-zWjDVdtUS6d4NRSqU7zeUIKztuo9816e9YG3Jn781ePFoqQya6-SHUDtwtLbA5bmvlHoi17ECbFpcNEu632bnpSM7b3jyjXvCeMTsQS55isttUHQQi2ocWWH74_5QiWgHiwp-YK-J0BfGQIbHs1s3im27i0kGLFMGl5CPDO4iiELHue16zr2ORn9Q/s4896/DSC03791.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif-zWjDVdtUS6d4NRSqU7zeUIKztuo9816e9YG3Jn781ePFoqQya6-SHUDtwtLbA5bmvlHoi17ECbFpcNEu632bnpSM7b3jyjXvCeMTsQS55isttUHQQi2ocWWH74_5QiWgHiwp-YK-J0BfGQIbHs1s3im27i0kGLFMGl5CPDO4iiELHue16zr2ORn9Q/w300-h400/DSC03791.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div>My notes and pictures seem to have died a death after this so no doubt I'd moved on to the <i>networking</i>. </div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-44639157564618114882022-12-10T10:21:00.000+00:002022-12-10T10:21:16.382+00:00200 years of Burton IPA<p><b>I managed to make it to Burton for the 200 years of Burton IPA celebration</b>. This was doing better than two of the people that were meant to speak but were sadly struck down with illness. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsKn5wLAXzMYvgoXNuLUyFGnnORvfDokbvydFqn60xD7grZTIg0rLgCQxuGR3CIWGpLjQIPiD3538ZOtaMrWYdETx6-ltpghpLxcHnsmELsQOloiJcg93B0pJt0mVFgrhO0jEG1fyHFGa12b6t0viYAsEVFjCqK9j8ksIlQ9WAEvsL4RHXL6g5o4W0w/s4896/DSC03648.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsKn5wLAXzMYvgoXNuLUyFGnnORvfDokbvydFqn60xD7grZTIg0rLgCQxuGR3CIWGpLjQIPiD3538ZOtaMrWYdETx6-ltpghpLxcHnsmELsQOloiJcg93B0pJt0mVFgrhO0jEG1fyHFGa12b6t0viYAsEVFjCqK9j8ksIlQ9WAEvsL4RHXL6g5o4W0w/s320/DSC03648.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>India Pale Ale was first brewed in London but Allsopp's started brewing it in Burton in 1822. Allsopp's have recently been re-launched so there was a bit of an Allsopp's theme to the day. Double Diamond, though an Ind Coope brand was apparently had it's origins as Allsopp's IPA. Which means the late lamented Ind Coope Burton Ale did too. </div><div><br /></div><div>Jamie Allsopp, the man behind the revival was there, complete with a plaque he'd like to put where the Allsopp's brewery was. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWz3QY5vdSYOikFrlwgEKlQk_6MMpJIG4_B-u7vt3K-RkhRok7Ir_mQQeaVYJGoEdTquh3lnlgoEqNbXZwXvjoZDjJKrpqLWdtT_B_cYMplFCOY-4lZs01M8j8Pwi2B6Cy4wyncv8b09yALcz2-dhKBjICe9kCpkl-mDbkiFtaAO7pQ5sJHD7N_pW-Ew/s4896/DSC03650.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWz3QY5vdSYOikFrlwgEKlQk_6MMpJIG4_B-u7vt3K-RkhRok7Ir_mQQeaVYJGoEdTquh3lnlgoEqNbXZwXvjoZDjJKrpqLWdtT_B_cYMplFCOY-4lZs01M8j8Pwi2B6Cy4wyncv8b09yALcz2-dhKBjICe9kCpkl-mDbkiFtaAO7pQ5sJHD7N_pW-Ew/s320/DSC03650.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately the land is now owned by Molson Coors and he hasn't got permission yet!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Brewed with pale and crystal malt with Fuggles and Challenger for bittering and Bramling Cross and Cascade for aroma. FG is 1.013 which must make the OG around 1.070. Despite the 50 IBUs it still tasted very sweet, though it's bottle conditioned so should dry out a bit. Other Allsopp's beers are being brewed, including a lager that I saw at Notting Hill Carnival of all places. Mind you, building a lager brewery didn't do the original Allsopp's much good. A revival of the legendary Arctic Ale is also planned which I very much look forward too. </p><p>We then had someone speak about White Shield, and how they once did something very similar to what Pete Brown later did for his Hops and Glory book and flew a cask to India whilst another went by boat. By all accounts the one which took the boat journey tasted much better. </p><p>Then Dr Harry White, formerly of Bass brewery and now chairman of the National Brewery Heritage Trust spoke about pale ale brewing in Burton. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkZn2_my1BH0r0nATQ1BG6xIRLerzc5zeI_RDFyTLYCWe29n3Nib34aU-Lc9d346_AvcjkuC4U5wUAsGW3v08sv0bIUSMA5HVyKAffuD3UZPwfc7xuIoTpOoSdWCvmp6lxFUe36VxQn7f8UUFf7UGaElL79FToCjU5x773u_mEMbWxw4qHZ5zpRNtDQ/s4896/DSC03681.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkZn2_my1BH0r0nATQ1BG6xIRLerzc5zeI_RDFyTLYCWe29n3Nib34aU-Lc9d346_AvcjkuC4U5wUAsGW3v08sv0bIUSMA5HVyKAffuD3UZPwfc7xuIoTpOoSdWCvmp6lxFUe36VxQn7f8UUFf7UGaElL79FToCjU5x773u_mEMbWxw4qHZ5zpRNtDQ/s320/DSC03681.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The sulphate to chloride ratio is important for beer flavour, 2:1 giving a dryer beer with assertive hops, and the other way giving a sweeter beer. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYophsMNpYucEjbid86VA7PosPNqjF7R0zCAknPtYinyt4tGvL3n0uvYUlHe0kdlzJmsx2RF03FCO-EaZfq76Y57kFgTUpwbc78hPwTV7WMuUMZ6xFcGs34DF9_3eiyA9Lsl5RPbbKdjWirp3TmVmThtflpQZOVNE13VXEg1PLMEhDOKqsCPGfgQ5Nsw/s4896/DSC03712.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYophsMNpYucEjbid86VA7PosPNqjF7R0zCAknPtYinyt4tGvL3n0uvYUlHe0kdlzJmsx2RF03FCO-EaZfq76Y57kFgTUpwbc78hPwTV7WMuUMZ6xFcGs34DF9_3eiyA9Lsl5RPbbKdjWirp3TmVmThtflpQZOVNE13VXEg1PLMEhDOKqsCPGfgQ5Nsw/s320/DSC03712.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The high sulphate levels in Burton water gave a sulphury/egg smell to beer which was gloriously named the <i>Burton snatch. </i>In the questions after the talk someone did ask why doesn't Marston's Pedigree taste the like it used to and certainly it's years since I've noticed anything eggy about it. I suspect they've changed what they do with the water, though Marston's still get lots from the wells on their site. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have spent a long time working on brewing water chemistry but I still learnt a <i>fascinating fact</i>. Magnesium sulphate also fluid retention, which increases the volume of the intestine, putting more pressure on peristalsis which causes the other effect Burton beers are known for. </div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VwJYuvNpTwQoPbJgtlFbrdLrbL49mcIi_PSVWWUbQ9O2G1vdGWUKZKIz2kKhg9Hl5_IYZMqFKzY4sqlL8OEk_84cm7HOAsHJdlqU5Xplrtxlfg9lTSBOVhJMOcZ2PY8uKq5cZIaB3PJlV68sb53w9A9QLrNiC1PgTpbhmDsfwxmMqGCU-ftIQjr2AA/s4896/DSC03713.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VwJYuvNpTwQoPbJgtlFbrdLrbL49mcIi_PSVWWUbQ9O2G1vdGWUKZKIz2kKhg9Hl5_IYZMqFKzY4sqlL8OEk_84cm7HOAsHJdlqU5Xplrtxlfg9lTSBOVhJMOcZ2PY8uKq5cZIaB3PJlV68sb53w9A9QLrNiC1PgTpbhmDsfwxmMqGCU-ftIQjr2AA/s320/DSC03713.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>David Jesudason talked about the colour bar in pubs and how campaigners fought against it. </div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaJL6CPzoxjexAUer5M4Wr0sZkXHYPCuMMVnoAzVyutZM2V-VshmxIVmZQ_rf4Adg207xCtgglhCdERb6PyoTMOQBbNViTqsT46opBfXYHlSlZQiUt0M1RJ3lNhA0Ag58IqRfyv00seSGFU7trU6lyebl_Ka_lelK6d6-rTpePU5XE0tV5TbuaYNqog/s4896/DSC03714.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaJL6CPzoxjexAUer5M4Wr0sZkXHYPCuMMVnoAzVyutZM2V-VshmxIVmZQ_rf4Adg207xCtgglhCdERb6PyoTMOQBbNViTqsT46opBfXYHlSlZQiUt0M1RJ3lNhA0Ag58IqRfyv00seSGFU7trU6lyebl_Ka_lelK6d6-rTpePU5XE0tV5TbuaYNqog/s320/DSC03714.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>He continued on to the asset stripping history of the East India Company (imagine Amazon running a country!) and how the excesses of luxury were for whites only. Beer marketing of India Pale Ales usually overlooks this completely, so he wanted to a <a href="https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2021/8/24/empire-state-of-mind-interrogating-ipas-colonial-identity">de-colonised IPA</a>. With Villages brewery he made a modern IPA using Indian spices and sugar, with money from sales going to a flood charity in Pakistan. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyKp3GJrmImLKoOwNo7z3cR4m5LL21dDm92X6Af0ICAXX6RYKt-ynvHgyU21M9Cc746SQmeRDw38o6gsSp4UasiCNWclkIhQ-TCDc3GnJvhLSkp8bWdqSq5FrmzQtxAB2TZMe6rnXjEXOde-qiLlWdBQeJYd2zd9XkVN3eWvPmemk3pl9z6HQFObeIg/s4896/DSC03715.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyKp3GJrmImLKoOwNo7z3cR4m5LL21dDm92X6Af0ICAXX6RYKt-ynvHgyU21M9Cc746SQmeRDw38o6gsSp4UasiCNWclkIhQ-TCDc3GnJvhLSkp8bWdqSq5FrmzQtxAB2TZMe6rnXjEXOde-qiLlWdBQeJYd2zd9XkVN3eWvPmemk3pl9z6HQFObeIg/s320/DSC03715.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Johnny Garret was up next. I have <i>90 minutes of nerding out </i>written in my notes. A podcast maybe or perhaps something he does of an evening? I can't recall. He talked of the decline of British hop growing and how support is needed now. So with Meantime brewery he made Now IPA using Goldings as the bittering hop and modern varieties like Jester and Olicana as late hops. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqaHFB7vZSHctbunUx7yroSHOCZzGBvPisHG0XUWrzDPet_jg0acu7vk4ZJ53gW9wHvh07mMLQoPMT48DwFmBLB40ST9v4EkBVe3Yp3e-gxJHnuytmqzocxJulBimKwzCfZuOhF12rtmmGHF2jvZf0PweheBqkw956T3K869fggbsioizs_SibYU99pA/s4896/DSC03717.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqaHFB7vZSHctbunUx7yroSHOCZzGBvPisHG0XUWrzDPet_jg0acu7vk4ZJ53gW9wHvh07mMLQoPMT48DwFmBLB40ST9v4EkBVe3Yp3e-gxJHnuytmqzocxJulBimKwzCfZuOhF12rtmmGHF2jvZf0PweheBqkw956T3K869fggbsioizs_SibYU99pA/s320/DSC03717.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The main event ended with a panel discussion where someone put the boot into Greene King IPA <b>ten minutes after their Quality Manager had left. </b>How's that for bad timing? I'm sure she'd have given as good as she got. I did stick up for it myself but I'm sure my reasoned and entirely accurate statement on the weak IPA of old family breweries was ignored by all present.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmJeRHqFRMxk9gBU3cBOOVHhptIm8cTvV0ofHceOcxa3_H_rtWjsjAZ-KnelTZrHNsI-OsVdfzxZzQ24X-jv2QtCliG6hd196uxlJylzEyVczIH5dC2lAmAXCf7tC-LU7aB8iuBU52Sz2UID3j0FOkgFmObnkPgNWkiFM7nc9dxKGpT3cz7j_tY-FUjA/s4896/DSC03718.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmJeRHqFRMxk9gBU3cBOOVHhptIm8cTvV0ofHceOcxa3_H_rtWjsjAZ-KnelTZrHNsI-OsVdfzxZzQ24X-jv2QtCliG6hd196uxlJylzEyVczIH5dC2lAmAXCf7tC-LU7aB8iuBU52Sz2UID3j0FOkgFmObnkPgNWkiFM7nc9dxKGpT3cz7j_tY-FUjA/s320/DSC03718.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>And then it was time for the pub. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-17843634168140386952022-10-27T22:19:00.000+01:002022-10-27T22:19:17.063+01:00Factors affecting foam in beer<p><b>Here's a handy table from the IBD magazine on factors affecting foam in beer.</b> I'm delighted to see that protein rests are a foam negative factor. Take that German brewers! Though to be fair under modified malt is foam positive. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_iQdmSURfMUjqF_xHeiUwj0bJ4ck7nB-jNhi0_XP068xzqkXIFM3Bmy-EzAeDaYols-YD4B0aq53_HtPtxOOnix89v2shw0fjBJ8kAvDnDcsVPBtjCP_SL5FFiEFseAwV1W4e4w5TsXdXsExtIbiTO59kyY-ii095RwLAJ46a5bU0-Q2wAiUsMAWAQ/s4889/foam%20factors%20use.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4889" data-original-width="3105" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_iQdmSURfMUjqF_xHeiUwj0bJ4ck7nB-jNhi0_XP068xzqkXIFM3Bmy-EzAeDaYols-YD4B0aq53_HtPtxOOnix89v2shw0fjBJ8kAvDnDcsVPBtjCP_SL5FFiEFseAwV1W4e4w5TsXdXsExtIbiTO59kyY-ii095RwLAJ46a5bU0-Q2wAiUsMAWAQ/w406-h640/foam%20factors%20use.jpg" width="406" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-3961855412875533462022-10-21T16:54:00.001+01:002022-10-21T16:54:54.478+01:00When it's gone it's gone<p><b>On a recent visit to Thorne I was delighted to spot what looked suspiciously like an old brewery in the distance</b>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2m4LXjlrlMTlsVjh-00pELG6rZCH4Ao05bsLrrQZq7DoFBfsiF4oVMzM3OPMbPnCe04X6uwUII2i_vprAN3fnmUBk8VZjgrIvbLTdbW3_GinvZc112g97-jyOOUCiGlysspMHnoFY4XFuED8A1B6TzEq-uWFVMBwiYMBXnTOWLvAi80cWCzhhljtaZg/s4896/DSC03622.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2m4LXjlrlMTlsVjh-00pELG6rZCH4Ao05bsLrrQZq7DoFBfsiF4oVMzM3OPMbPnCe04X6uwUII2i_vprAN3fnmUBk8VZjgrIvbLTdbW3_GinvZc112g97-jyOOUCiGlysspMHnoFY4XFuED8A1B6TzEq-uWFVMBwiYMBXnTOWLvAi80cWCzhhljtaZg/s4896/DSC03622.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcXl286E4rCV-fHu_QKW3NbUvDGWAno0QkGaAKVvd0b5M4nvzPVxq6ThR--kbMygNhBROlPi2r3OG9r3TggjjepKRxpT5EqwuHKX9kY02TIw0YNqtSCBnJz7N2ahqWTCZVlc-uQGyXQiJoxAzRyJh3WpxiHuWDyCuOG7lY9K0n2yo-e_ET1DgfkSFTYw/s4896/DSC03623.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcXl286E4rCV-fHu_QKW3NbUvDGWAno0QkGaAKVvd0b5M4nvzPVxq6ThR--kbMygNhBROlPi2r3OG9r3TggjjepKRxpT5EqwuHKX9kY02TIw0YNqtSCBnJz7N2ahqWTCZVlc-uQGyXQiJoxAzRyJh3WpxiHuWDyCuOG7lY9K0n2yo-e_ET1DgfkSFTYw/s320/DSC03623.JPG" width="240" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div>The remaining letters on the worn and weathered gate backed up my suspicions:<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4cetwT40SaFRbeNdLOMaVZnu2jm1n5Fssk32yLWHkraZzLhHaEx5RdfbV8Y05rrNf13sI-OaLJezYJq5rwidaEy1Nj194-L3_lmfrSWGX8-TvQoz3ChJ94ev0Hgf0SJnldbUxF_SllX06IMcQN-Fn9LSd8uymL_jTesKe8TRkqM_7W0VKCY4tVBDlg/s4896/DSC03631.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4cetwT40SaFRbeNdLOMaVZnu2jm1n5Fssk32yLWHkraZzLhHaEx5RdfbV8Y05rrNf13sI-OaLJezYJq5rwidaEy1Nj194-L3_lmfrSWGX8-TvQoz3ChJ94ev0Hgf0SJnldbUxF_SllX06IMcQN-Fn9LSd8uymL_jTesKe8TRkqM_7W0VKCY4tVBDlg/s320/DSC03631.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>And the Brewery History Wiki <a href="http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Darley_Ltd">confirmed them</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1k9WPHJtESqO2JtTcQzFovnQt8i73mFkAOwn74gghO12A7LFIXjfwtQfZOfAkI-8Z4-0dd5oI1RcJ9--dfrPlxifzvotdwc3ROjaFdRqfJwOqlXDWvVIvFhFK4fksX4sPI66e346F4_8iTq2cH1LmfluVTOkXx_aeB26oU7-fWzna9DamKcwNTl1Ufg/s4896/DSC03633.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1k9WPHJtESqO2JtTcQzFovnQt8i73mFkAOwn74gghO12A7LFIXjfwtQfZOfAkI-8Z4-0dd5oI1RcJ9--dfrPlxifzvotdwc3ROjaFdRqfJwOqlXDWvVIvFhFK4fksX4sPI66e346F4_8iTq2cH1LmfluVTOkXx_aeB26oU7-fWzna9DamKcwNTl1Ufg/s320/DSC03633.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div>Darley's Brewery closed before I'd started drinking, which perhaps explains why I'd never heard of it, though I couldn't help but feel saddened to see such a lovely building boarded up. And it got me thinking of the other tragic losses we have only recently suffered in Britain: the closure of <a href="https://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2010/05/jennings-brewery-tour.html">Jennings</a> and Caledonian Breweries. I have been round both of them, Jennings is a wonderful tower brewery and Caledonian had one of the most amazing things you can see in a brewery: open copper coppers! Nowadays pumps are much cheaper than building breweries in a tower and no one is going to build their boiling vessels out of copper, let alone leave them unenclosed. When such things are gone they are never going to return so I mourn every loss. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mind you, looking at the amount of pigeons on the roof of Darley's where the cooling tray would have been I was reminded that old fashioned brewing was not without its drawbacks!</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHDn-3_sRu1atHxB5NB07pUDCNq1gFOX4jBRpex8l78xkz45zm_minbaXm7op7JI1O5z3hMg_xnU6m-oUNncWSny1G9tRQxXc1IdCOY1Przi09FxXoCKEdJLrsxWF04CZIZjq6xyCj03n6-ZdNjC5xLmzpFIWmxam3VsrNKnz95buvpjloqB8cPvDNA/s320/DSC03628.JPG" width="320" /></p><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHDn-3_sRu1atHxB5NB07pUDCNq1gFOX4jBRpex8l78xkz45zm_minbaXm7op7JI1O5z3hMg_xnU6m-oUNncWSny1G9tRQxXc1IdCOY1Przi09FxXoCKEdJLrsxWF04CZIZjq6xyCj03n6-ZdNjC5xLmzpFIWmxam3VsrNKnz95buvpjloqB8cPvDNA/s4896/DSC03628.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2m4LXjlrlMTlsVjh-00pELG6rZCH4Ao05bsLrrQZq7DoFBfsiF4oVMzM3OPMbPnCe04X6uwUII2i_vprAN3fnmUBk8VZjgrIvbLTdbW3_GinvZc112g97-jyOOUCiGlysspMHnoFY4XFuED8A1B6TzEq-uWFVMBwiYMBXnTOWLvAi80cWCzhhljtaZg/s320/DSC03622.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-79720594278700177822022-10-01T10:41:00.000+01:002022-10-01T10:41:39.351+01:00Hold The Line!<p><b>Satan's minions have once again been launching attacks on the one true living beer, this time by saying cask beer should be saved by pubs ripping out their cask lines or something. </b>But there seems to me a better, more obvious and all together less diabolic solution: pubs should stop selling <b>keg beer</b>. That'll get those that are used to suckling at the devil's drainpipe drinking in the ways of righteousness!</p><p>Even in these dark times I know that it is possible for pubs to sell more cask beer. <a href="https://whatpub.com/pubs/SHB/156/crown-horsell">My local</a> is now back up to six (6) hand pumps and the top two (2) best selling beers are cask beers. For their heathen customers they do sell keg beer, with Fosters coming in third. This glorious success has not been achieved by poltroonery or moral turpitude. It has been achieved by caring about cask beer and looking after it. And I've even heard from the landlady that one of the strengths of cask beer is its growing popularity with young people. So let us gird our loins, stiffen our upper lips and continue to drink beer served as god intended.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkU1F6ns9nDTrmR4q8SW5f8Oz7k5Y-bBe13pAlNOXZCGjK1aUY_3ncbdZTzmUiFr9rnsCTVaDxpM8TQIxYfpzE5xtfIg2kOqUQ-8kF5CsBYxAnKGACteUnEJMn_WvjtQP59Ez3eQxBIS-Nxz_t9OCMv4jWvVz2PcvATpJAbDMS8n4uFE1FibtgaYK4Q/s4128/20190621_200939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3096" data-original-width="4128" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkU1F6ns9nDTrmR4q8SW5f8Oz7k5Y-bBe13pAlNOXZCGjK1aUY_3ncbdZTzmUiFr9rnsCTVaDxpM8TQIxYfpzE5xtfIg2kOqUQ-8kF5CsBYxAnKGACteUnEJMn_WvjtQP59Ez3eQxBIS-Nxz_t9OCMv4jWvVz2PcvATpJAbDMS8n4uFE1FibtgaYK4Q/s320/20190621_200939.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><i> Hold the line!</i></p><p><i>Hold the line!</i></p><p><i>As we held the line at Horsell</i></p><p><i>We will hold it everywhere</i></p><p><i>Hold the line!</i></p><p><i>Hold the line!</i></p><p><i>We will hold the line forever</i></p><p><i>Till there's cask beer everywhere</i></p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-26919621530837759532022-09-24T08:35:00.001+01:002022-09-24T08:35:59.182+01:00Thoughts on beer blogging<p><b>Boak and Bailey were <a href="https://twitter.com/BoakandBailey/status/1569920312300421121?s=20&t=bbWlkFPpB_SnU6i5zJjkCw">recently asking</a> about why beer blogs die, which got some interesting replies</b>. I don't blog much myself nowadays so it did get me pondering. Partly I post less because I've been doing it so bleedin' long I've said a lot of things already. And for me anyway Twitter definitely has a part because things now move more quickly and more briefly. </p><p>I'm not sure the world of beer bores has become more toxic though. When I started blogging whinging on about CAMRA was one of the main topics, something I myself indulged in until I realised the danger I was putting my immortal soul in. Then there was the rise of Craft Beer in Britain which was new and exciting and an excellent opportunity for conflict to arise. And nothing drives social media like conflict. As craft beer has now moved from being "revolutionary" to business as usual the craft crusaders seem a lot quieter. I mean there may have been some wailing and gnashing of teeth when Heineken's takeover of Beavertown was completed but I can't say I noticed anything. </p><p>I also think that as time as moved on my interests have moved on. I spend less time reading beer blogs as well as less time writing them. For example, at the moment I'm more likely to read <a href="http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/">Ron's blogs</a> about wandering around getting pissed than I am his ones about beer history. I'm also trying to get out training more often, admittedly not entirely successfully, and as far as beer goes there is something <a href="https://iww.org.uk/campaign/brewery-workers/">more worthwhile</a> to devote my time and effort to. Having a blog still has it's uses though and I will continue to post stuff up at times but my output is likely to remain sporadic. </p>Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com1