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Dear readers: if our calculations are correct, you will receive this blog post on Saturday morning.

(We wrote most of it on Thursday before heading off on our grand tour of the North.)
→ We can’t claim to have had anything to do with this one (unlike Dogbolter) but it seems another seminal beer which has a starring role in our book — Brendan Dobbin’s Yakima Grande Pale Ale — is making a return from the dead. Tandleman has all the details here.
→ Saved to Pocket this week is this piece from All About*Beer on British family brewers and historic brewing by Adrian Tierney-Jones.
→ This 1905 essay/lecture on ‘The Popular Type of Beer’*(via @YvanSeth) is worth a look in light of ongoing*questions about the historic importance (or otherwise) of beer clarity:
I think it is pretty*well agreed that an ideal beer for modern taste must have the*following characteristics:—
  1. Brilliancy which is not dimmed by cooling.
  2. Low alcoholic strength.
  3. Good condition with a permanent head.
  4. A clean, fairly full, and mature character, a delicate hop flavour,*and pleasant aroma.

→ Phil Mellows’ portrait of a distinctly old-fashioned Welsh pub is highly evocative:*“After the smell of wet dog, what struck me first about the place was that, in 21st century terminology, it’s a micropub.”
→ They’re making a film about the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken starring Anthony Hopkins as the wealthy brewing heir. But it turns out it’s not the first — Rutger Hauer had a go at the role a couple of years ago.
→ After a week of sometimes fraught discussion about the intricacies of beer cellaring techniques, here’s another nugget from Ed.
→ We’re hosting the 88th beer blogging session on Friday 6 June, with the topic of ‘traditional beer mixes’: if you blog, get involved.
News, Nuggets & Longreads 17/05/2014


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