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A short history of hops
One of the great unanswered questions in the history of beer is why it took 9,000 years or so after brewing began for brewers to start using hops. Today there are very few beers made without hops They… more →
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A short history of hops
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zythophile wrote 5 days ago: One of the great unanswered questions in the history of beer is why it took 9,000 years or so after … more →
BrewDog Atlantic IPA: is it worth it?
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zythophile wrote 1 week ago: It’s apparently fashionable now to be sticking one’s boots into BrewDog, since the Aberd … more →
Kieve, tierce and bub
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zythophile wrote 1 month ago: Sound like a trio of Victorian lawyers, don’t they? Kieve, Tierce and Bubb, solicitors and com … more →
How to brew like an Anglo-Norman knight
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zythophile wrote 1 month ago: There are almost no descriptions of brewing processes in Britain from the medieval period, a reflect … more →
Beer: NOT the oldest drink in the world
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zythophile wrote 1 month ago: Finding factual errors in Wikipedia is, of course, easier than machine-gunning a cask full of cod, a … more →
Beer Summits Started Long Long Ago...
missveronique wrote 3 months ago: President Obama’s “Beer Summit” was surely not the first time leaders sat with the … more →
A Little History Lesson on Beer...
audaciousbeer wrote 7 months ago: Manolith.com has posted a graphical timeline of the History of Beer. While there may be some histori … more →
Befuggled: doubts about a hop's birth
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zythophile wrote 7 months ago: Bang, bang, another beery myth hits the floorboards, or at least staggers back badly wounded, after … more →
So what IS the difference between porter and stout?
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zythophile wrote 8 months ago: One of the top 10 questions people who end up at this site put into search engines such as Google is … more →
Gale warning
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zythophile wrote 8 months ago: You know you’re a historic beer geek when … well, certainly when you immediately recogni … more →
Bracia: great beer, shame about the dodgy history
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zythophile wrote 11 months ago: Ping! It’s an email from the chaps at Thornbridge with details of their Bracia chestnut honey … more →
Bing-drinking at the parsonage
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zythophile wrote 11 months ago: Bing-drinking at the parsonage – no, that’s not a typographical error. “Bing-ale”, … more →
IPA: much later than you think part 2
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zythophile wrote 1 year ago: Click to read part 1 From 1823 the Burton brewers began to brew pale ales for the Indian market. I … more →
IPA: much later than you think
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zythophile wrote 1 year ago: When do you think the expression “India Pale Ale” was first used? Much, much later than … more →
Throwing beer (events) in your FACE!
philadelphiaexbeeriment wrote 1 year ago: We, the drunken ladies of PE, would like to take a moment to ramble off some upcoming events that ha … more →
Wrecking the reputation of Griff Rhys Jones
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zythophile wrote 1 year ago: Thanks to Griff Rhys Jones, one of the “myths” pages on this blog saw a sudden spike in … more →
Lager: the truth (or some of it)
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zythophile wrote 1 year ago: A flyer for Allsopp's lager If not actually unique (always a dangerous claim to make), it was ce … more →
A tasty drop: the history of an almost-vanished fermentation system
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zythophile wrote 1 year ago: Brakspear’s Triple is a regular on the Zythophile shopping list: not just because I try to sup … more →
Heather ale: Scots or Irish?
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zythophile wrote 1 year ago: Thanks to Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote a poem about it, and Bruce Williams, who started brewing … more →
