Time now for the other main ingredient: hops. | Shut up about Barclay Perkins
Bit of a funny one today. I have just a single brewing record from Peter Walker. Which someone sent me. Sometime. A few years back. As it's an Imperial Stout, it seemed a shame to waste it.Brewing Imperial Stout wasn’t just limited to brewers in London. As this example from Peter Walker of Warrington demonstrates.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
To be honest, it’s not very interesting. The majority of the beers only have a single ingredient in the grist. Pretty dull, right? Just a one type of pale malt.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
When I'm in archives, I don't spend a huge amount of time analysing documents. There's plenty of time for that later. I just snap away, making sure I take as many photos as possible.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
The range of beers brewed by Tomson & Wotton is a little odd. At a time when Porter was disappearing from most of England, they continued to brew one. Yet didn't brew a Stout of any description. A style pretty well every other brewery in the UK produced.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
Some results from my expedition to Maidstone last week. From the one brewing book they hane from Tomson & Wotton.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
No time to hang around this morning. I rise at 8 AM. Heading down for breakfast a little later.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
“Are you crazy? Another trip?”| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
Here are the first results of my jaunt to Maidstone during the week. The Kent Archives have one Tomson and Wotton brewing book. A personal notebook rather than the official brewing record. Pretty complete information, though.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
I get up at eight. Want to be in plenty of time for the bus, which is at 9:30 AM.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
The Brewers' Journal reprinted quite a lot of technical information from foreign publications. Particularly German ones. Lots of interesting stuff. Such as today's article which looks at fermentation procedures in Munich breweries.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
Strongest of Binnie’s beers was 140/-. Which, although it’s a good bit weaker than William Younger 140/-, I suppose still counts as a Strong/Scotch Ale.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
In case you missed it on Boak & Bailey's blog, here's a wonderful film from 1974 showing how they worked at Hook Norton.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins
I rise at 8:40 and go straight for breakfast.| Shut up about Barclay Perkins