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Lover of beer and numbers. And cachaca and whisky. And every other alcoholic drink. Visit my bookstore: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/andrewsblag Or my blog, Shut up About Barclay Perkins: https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 11h

Some Munich Methods of Fermentation in 1899.
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Some Munich Methods of Fermentation

The Brewers' Journal reprinted quite a lot of technical information from foreign publications. Particularly German ones. Lots of interesting...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 19h

Fair enough.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 20h

I see you went for the large breakfast.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 20h

I wasn't even 24 hours in Maidstone. Just a quick archive run.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 1d

Just back from a sneaky night in Maidstone. Very useful.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 1d

Not really. Probably some type of invert.sugar. That can come in hard lumps.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 2d

Flaked maize and sugar are not "adulterants".

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 2d

A whole day at the @kornolfest.bsky.social
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All day festing

I rise at 8:40 and go straight for breakfast. It's the same as yesterday: fried egg, bacon, orange juice and coffee. Followed by fruit. Ever...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 3d

Nice to see again, too.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 3d

More about the "long pull" (deliberately overserving).
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The Long Pull (part two)

Not everyone in Birmingham was happy with the abolition of the long pull. As it seems that, in some cases, overmeasure had been attracting c...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 4d

Watching a farmhouse brew and the first day of the Kornol Festival @kornolfest.bsky.social
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Brewing and festing

I rise at 8:30 and go straight for brekkie. They have both bacon and fried eggs. So I have both. Along with orange juice and coffee. And a ...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 5d

A fun old Scottish recipe - 1903 Binnie Table Beer.
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Let's Brew - 1903 Binnie Table Beer

After the tax category was abolished in 1830, Table Beer quickly banished from most of the UK. Except in Scotland, where it lived on until W...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 6d

I'm happy to spread the word a little. It's a wonderful festival. And a wonderful brewing tradition.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 6d

I head off to Norway and the @kornolfest.bsky.social
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Northward bound

No rush this morning. My flight isn't until 14:20. I leave home around 11:00. Schiphol s fairly busy. I can see a big queue at passport co...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 8d

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.
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A bowl of wort with kveik immediately after adding to wort. No activity, just lumps of kveik floating on the surface.

A bowl of wort with kveik 20 minutes later with a head formed from fermentation.

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 8d

He was struck off.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 8d

A Scottish Export recipe - 1888 Thomas Usher Export
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Let's Brew Wednesday - 1888 Thomas Usher Export

Just to confuse things a bit more, here’s a beer simply called Export. And, no, it wasn’t the same gravity as PA. As, by this time, its grav...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 9d

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.