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The long battle between ale and beer
How long did ale and beer remain as separate brews? Most* drinkers, I think, know that “ale” was originally the English name for an unhopped fermented malt drink, and beer was the name of the fermented...
View ArticleThe ‘beeriodic table’: beautifully executed, fatally flawed
I feel bad about this, really bad. Pete Brown’s having a “let’s be nice” month over on his blog, and all I can do is be mean, nasty, negative and carping. (And it’s not because I didn’t win anything in...
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Why there’s no such beer as ‘English brown ale’
The man who invented brown ale … The ability to deny the evidence of your senses is widespread. There’s the dictator insisting to television interviewers that his people love him, while across the...
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American Brown Ale: the pre-prohibition years
I don’t normally get involved in exploring American beer history, not just because there are people far better qualified than me to do the job, but also because I know how easily I could make a fool of...
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Endangered beers
Beers, like animals, can be endangered species: some can even go extinct. Nobody’s seen West Country White Ale in the wild for more than 125 years. Camra, I’m very pleased to say, has recently decided...
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