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Tim Holt
@beerhasahistory.bsky.social
Editor of Brewery History - a journal dedicated to all aspects of beer and brewing history
And reviews have been written by @thebeerfather.bsky.social @stanhieronymus.bsky.social and the sadly missed @thezythophile.bsky.social View the journal's archive here: bit.ly/3MCF2Z9
Journal of the Brewery History Society
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December 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Just a quick reminder that all book reviews published in Brewery History are free to access immediately. Recent works to appear in the journal include those authored by @akrennmair.bsky.social @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social and @brunsma.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Access for free articles on St Austell brewery; Armenian brewing in 18th century Poland; the Albion Brewery, San Francisco; Märzen and Oktoberfest beers; & the lagering cellars of the Kauffman Brewery, Cincinnati. bit.ly/48No9SU
Brewery History: Issue 191
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December 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Due to a number of factors Brewery History is unfortunately behind schedule. However, we intend to rectify this by publishing several issues over the next few months. Simultaneously, we will also be making older issues free to access. The latest can be found here: bit.ly/48No9SU
Brewery History: Issue 191
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December 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Lots of interesting sketches of American bars c.1980 in the travelogue Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon].
December 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
An unexpected find in Brussels.
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Following on from @boakandbailey.bsky.social post some years ago about The Britannia, Brussels, 1958 here's a pub proposed for the Berlin Exhibition of 1966. But was it actually built?
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Historic Beer Birthday: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek tinyurl.com/5c3t9mff
October 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Brewery History Journal issue 195 will have a long paper going through all known first-hand accounts of real stone brewing, 75 individual ones all told. I hope it will settle this "debate" for good.

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Journal of the Brewery History Society
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April 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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GOOD MORNING! Here's this week's round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, with notes from Massachusetts, Namur, Gloucestershire, and Isaac Newton's laboratory. 🍺🍻

boakandbailey.com/2025/03/news...
News, nuggets and longreads 1 March 2025: The House on the Borderland
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got old mugs, pub crawls, and melancholy reflection.
boakandbailey.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Newton's beer mug rediscovered. Read about it in Notes & Records royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
March 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Maybe one more beer ...
December 28, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Sarah Hughes dark ruby mild. Thank you Mr Marchbanks.
December 28, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Well worth a read: more info on the imminent closure of Au Daringman, Brussels:
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20...
Curtain falls over legendary Brussels pub Au Daringman
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December 15, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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This spring marks the 50th anniversary of the most important beer marketing paper you’ve probably never heard of. Brand building in beer wouldn't be the same today without the influence of Ackoff and Emshoff. (Free sign up may be required to read.) firstkey.com/the-godfathe...
The Godfathers of Beer Consumer Insights - First Key Consulting
Russell L. Ackoff and James R. Emshoff's paper "Advertising Research at Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 1968-1974" revolutionized beer marketing by categorizing drinkers into types, such as Reparative and Social...
firstkey.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Back
November 22, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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*NEW BOOK* I'm delighted to announce after seven years of research and writing FILTHY QUEENS: A HISTORY OF BEER IN IRELAND is here! Published with Nine Bean Rows, it is available for preorder now. Link in bio.

About the book: In Filthy Queens, we look at the history of beer alongside some of... 🧵
November 11, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Still very much worth a visit.
November 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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I learnt this from Peter Darby and my research is here: www.breweryhistory.com/journal/arch...
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November 7, 2024 at 10:10 PM
111 years of Metzer Eck. Wish I'd been there ...
August 2, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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Slate Yorkshire squares at Sam Smith's brewery
June 27, 2024 at 6:26 AM
The latest issue of the Economic History Yearbook on International Knowledge Transfer and Circulation within the Brewing Industry is free to access here: www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
International Knowledge Transfer and Circulation within the Brewing Industry / Internationaler Wissenstransfer und -zirkulation in der Brauwirtschaft, Verantwortlich: Nancy Bodden und Jana Weiß
Volume 65, issue 1 of the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook was published in 2024.
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May 24, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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Breweries, save your stuff!
New report from Pew finds 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later. This research underscores how critical web archiving efforts are. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
When Online Content Disappears
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
www.pewresearch.org
May 18, 2024 at 5:38 PM