Looking through the Amsterdam archives this week downloading pdfs of scanned documents. I noticed a couple were miscatalogued and are actually brewing records. One volume covers part of WW I. Dead handy.

The advantages of canned beer (according to a letter to Heineken in 1936):
1. handier package
2. lighter
3. no deposit
4. no dirty bottles to clean
5. easy to take on journeys

New local?

Kveik gets to work very quickly. The photos show it immediately after being added to wort and 20 minutes later. The bowl was placed on the rim of the firepit, presumably to keep it nice and warm.
@kornolfest.bsky.social

The @kornolfest.bsky.social at the weekend was fascinating. I learned so much. It's a whole new world. Something genuinely different to every other beer festival.
And held in amazingly beautiful place.

Brewing the farmhouse way. @kornolfest.bsky.social

Scottish beer exports 1897-1908,

What a contrast between William Younger's 2 breweries in the 1880s. Holyrood only brewed half a dozen different beers, mostly Pale Ales and with the odd Strong/Scotch Ale. The Abbey Brewery produced Shilling Ales, Milds, Strong/Scotch Ales, Stout and Pale Ales. Not far short of 30 different beers.

My work for today.

Balneario Camboriu. What a hellhole.

William Younger today. You need something to fill your day when you're retired.

Just finished the front cover of "Keg!".

Your whiskey looks lonely.

Been looking at Murphy's gyling. Just twigged what the third line is.

As a special Christmas treat I've started going through Murphy's brewing records. So much fun.