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More IPA myths that must die on #IPADay
It’s #IPADAY again, and time for some more IPA mythbusting. Despite the best efforts of many, an amazing amount of inaccurate, made-up rubbish continues to be perpetuated about the history and origins...
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Worthington ‘E’ is NOT a Burton Ale
This week’s letter comes from a Mr R Protz of St Albans, who writes: Martyn, I took a snap of the clip for ‘E’ in the National Brewery Centre Bar y’day. I’ve included it in 300 More Beers … in the Best...
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Was water really regarded as dangerous to drink in the Middle Ages?
It’s a story I’ve been guilty of treating a little too uncritically myself: “In the Middle Ages people drank beer rather than water because the water wasn’t safe.” But is that correct? No, not at all,...
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You won’t believe this one weird trick they used to fly beer to the D-Day...
Normandy, 70 years ago, and one of the biggest concerns of the British troops who have made it over the channel, survived the landings and pushed out into the bocage against bitter German resistance is...
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Remembering the victims of the Great London Beer Flood, 200 years ago today
Wherever you are at 5.30pm this evening, please stop a moment and raise a thought – a glass, too, if you have one, preferably of porter – to Hannah Banfield, aged four years and four months; Eleanor...
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The three-threads mystery and the birth of porter: the answer is …
One of the biggest mysteries in the history of beer concerns a drink called three-threads, and its exact place in the early history of porter. Three-threads was evidently a mixed beer sold in the...
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The IPA shipwreck and the Night of the Big Wind
The “IPA shipwreck” is one of many long-lasting myths in the history of India Pale Ale. The story says that IPA became popular in Britain after a ship on its way to India in the 1820s was wrecked in...
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The Twelve Beers of Christmas
On the 12th day of Christmas my True Love gave to me Twelve draughts of Duvel Eleven pints of porter Ten Landlords leaping Nine Lagunitas Eight Mackeson milk stouts Seven Silly Saisons Six Geuze...
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More frequently repeated beery history that turns out to be totally bogus
It’s depressing and frightening, sometimes, if you start tugging at loose threads in the historical narrative, because the whole fabric can start unravelling. This all began with the Canadian beer...
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Albert Le Coq is NOT a famous Belgian
It’s a small error, as they go, but it has been around for at least 40 years, and it appears everywhere from Michael Jackson’s World Guide to Beer to the labels on bottles of Harvey’s Imperial Extra...
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