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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 · 1d

Flaked maize and sugar are not "adulterants".

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

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 · 2d

Nice to see again, too.

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

Congratulations.

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

Congratulations.

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

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

He was struck off.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 8d

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.

A like in Norway. In the foreground is a small jetty. On either side of the lake are steep slopes, mostlly covered in trees.

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

Brewing the farmhouse way. @kornolfest.bsky.social

A cauldron of water and juniper twigs boiling over a wood. In the background are pieces of wood, buckets, a milk churn and a stainless-steel mash tun.

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

More judging in Singapore.
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Judgemental

I rise at 8:15. And go downstairs for brekkie. Fried egg, cheese and toast. Again. Except I don’t bother with the horrible turkey bacon. Th...

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

Something genuinely new to me. And the brewer is a lovely chap.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 14d

A rather old 60 Bob recipe - 1885 Thomas Usher PA 60/-.
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Let's Brew Wednesday - 1885 Thomas Usher PA 60/-

Don’t you just love the random use of Shilling designations by Usher? It’s clear that the original use of shilling classifications: to indic...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 15d

Fascinating how many breweries in Asia make Milk Stout.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 15d

Again? You’re going to Singapore again?
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Singapore swinging

“Again? You’re going to Singapore again?” “Yes, Dolores. I told you.” “Did you? But you were there just a few weeks ago. Why are you going a...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 26d

Right. No more need be said.

patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 27d

Which book is that?

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · 29d

Binnie malts 1903 - 1905.
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Binnie malts 1903 - 1905

What was Binnie brewing these beers from? Well, let’s take a look. But don’t expect a huge number of malts. That’s just not the way they bre...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · Sep 15

Binnie beers 1903 - 1905.
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Binnie beers 1903 - 1905

More results from my visit to the Scottish Brewing Archive. This time we're looking at Binnie, a small brewery in Haddington. With batch siz...

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patto1ro.bsky.social @patto1ro.bsky.social · Sep 14

You haven't been looking after that Good Beer Guide very well. I have several second-hand GBGs with ticks in them. Fascinating. Though few of the original owners seem to have bothered with Mild.

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