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I've assembled all this information about 1970s beers. Enough to do something like the brewery section of the Good Beer Guide. But with the bottled and keg beers included.
Is it weird to do a guide the past? For a lost world? Though I have done all that stuff about the DDR. There's a whole country that's gone forever.
Here's what an entry might look like.
Shepherd Neame
Favershan, Kent
Tied houses
235
OG
ABV
draught
Bitter
Pale Ale
1031
3.00
well hopped
Best Bitter
Pale Ale
1036
3.68
Light Mild
Mild
similar to the Bitter, only in clubs and on the Isle of Sheppey
Mild
Mild
1031
3.21
Dark Mild
Old English Stock Ale
Pale Ale
1039
4.01
keg
Draught Abbey
Pale Ale
1044
4.01
Hurlimann Swiss Lager
Lager
imported
bottled
Light Ale
Pale Ale
1029
2.83
Abbey Ale
Pale Ale
1044
4.01
medium-strength
Bishop's Finger
Strong Ale
1053
4.71
pale
Christmas Ale
Old Ale
very strong
Brown Ale
Brown Ale
1026
2.75
Am I wasting my time?
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I've assembled all this information about 1970s beers. Enough to do something like the brewery section of the Good Beer Guide. But with the bottled and keg beers included.
Is it weird to do a guide the past? For a lost world? Though I have done all that stuff about the DDR. There's a whole country that's gone forever.
Here's what an entry might look like.
Shepherd Neame
Favershan, Kent
Tied houses
235
OG
ABV
draught
Bitter
Pale Ale
1031
3.00
well hopped
Best Bitter
Pale Ale
1036
3.68
Light Mild
Mild
similar to the Bitter, only in clubs and on the Isle of Sheppey
Mild
Mild
1031
3.21
Dark Mild
Old English Stock Ale
Pale Ale
1039
4.01
keg
Draught Abbey
Pale Ale
1044
4.01
Hurlimann Swiss Lager
Lager
imported
bottled
Light Ale
Pale Ale
1029
2.83
Abbey Ale
Pale Ale
1044
4.01
medium-strength
Bishop's Finger
Strong Ale
1053
4.71
pale
Christmas Ale
Old Ale
very strong
Brown Ale
Brown Ale
1026
2.75
Am I wasting my time?
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/11/wasting-my-time.html)