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This is our pick of the most interesting and/or eye-opening beer- or pub-related reading from the last week. → Neil McDonald of*Home Brew Answers*suggests a recipe for ‘session stout’ (http://homebrewanswers.com/session-stout-recipe/)which sounds like it ought to be ‘a thing’:
A full bodied lower ABV session beer? Balancing a beer like this can be a tricky thing, retaining the body in a beer is harder when you are putting less malt in but with a few simple tweaks and a little bit of thought about the recipe itself it is not all that difficult.
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→ For the British Library Labs project Dr Katrina Navickas has put together a pub-heavy walking tour of Chartist London (http://historytoday-navickas.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/chartist-walking-tour-of-london-with.html).
→ Ed has been digging in the*Journal of the Institute of Brewing again and came across a marvellous 1905 paper on ‘The Popular Type of Beer’ (http://edsbeer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/brewers-have-themselves-to-blame.html)*which includes a complaint about poor quality bottled beer, the result of a…
“short sighted and stupid policy to rest content with, or even to tolerate a characterless product which is not only far inferior to a naturally matured bottled beer, but in the majority of cases not even a credit to the present development of the non-deposit system”.
→ On a related theme, Ron Pattinson flags an observation from a brewer’s memoir (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.nl/2015/10/the-dangers-of-monopoly.html) which underlines why monopolies in brewing are bad news — because companies stop trying once they have one:
The same brewery senior management laid down the rules and the policy, and like all monopolies, became very efficient at control and very short of inspiration; any idea which for its implementation called for a change in routines, an upending of hitherto accepted philosophies, and a degree of risk, was treated with* suspicion and, usually, rejection.
→*Speaking of monopolies, this week’s brewery takeover news: AB-InBev’s is becoming more hostile in its attempts to swallow*SABMiller (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/leisure/11920507/AB-InBev-goes-hostile-lite-in-pursuit-of-SABMIller.html); while, at the same time, rumours are afoot that Diageo might sell their brewing operations to SABMiller,*according to the (http://nypost.com/2015/10/07/beer-company-diageo-under-pressure-to-sell-guinness/)New York Post (http://nypost.com/2015/10/07/beer-company-diageo-under-pressure-to-sell-guinness/)*(via @BeaumontDrinks (https://twitter.com/BeaumontDrinks)). And, in Canada, Mill Street Brewing has been taken over by regional giant Labatt (http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/10/09/labatt-buys-mill-street-brewery.html). (Is someone keeping count of 2015’s casualties?)
→ And, finally, via an entire chain of people ending with @thebeernut (https://twitter.com/thebeernut/status/651747924058238976)*here’s a splendid 10 minute film about the beer culture of Forchheim, Franconia (http://munchies.vice.com/videos/frankonian-cellar-forest-beer), presented by*Ailine Liefeld for Vice‘s ‘Al-Ke-Holl’ series. (This attempt to embed might or might not work — if it doesn’t, try the link above.)

Quick Plug We’re allowed to put*Gambrinus Waltz, our Kindle book about lager beer in Victorian and Edwardian London,*on sale for one week every few months so, right now, and for a couple of days only, it’s available for 99p. Snap it up! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gambrinus-Waltz-German-Victorian-Edwardian-ebook/dp/B00PIJUH1A/)
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