If you thought Trump was rude to Zelensky, wait till you hear beer writers grilling a Czech brewer who dares to allow oxygen near his mash and persists in clinging to decoction and whole cone hops, despite American homebrewers believing that those things are unnecessary.

Some interesting chat that some fresh hop cask beers might make it to Glasgow this season. Very intrigued. Would enough people be interested?

5 out of 30 beers in the JDW autumn festival are using new British hops — Harlequin, Ernest, Olicana, Jester. Progress?

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Little Hassan died after being prevented from leaving Gaza for treatment by Israel. In this video filmed by Moaz Abutaha, also killed by Israel, we see Hassan smiling and sending a kiss. I won’t shared the video of Hassan’s corpse here - Obvious trigger warning www.instagram.com/reel/DOrNySh...

It would not surprise me to discover there were more bars serving cask ale in Italy than in one of its supposed homelands, Scotland. Though even that probably wouldn’t be enough to shame Scottish pub operators into offering it.

In the latest of a long line of British crimes against Ireland, JD Wetherspoon is now selling spice bags.

The popularity of goth music in Germany is due to folk memories of transporting beer to and from chilly, echoey caves cut out of the hillside. Prove me wrong

Surely you can't have a <div> inside a <td>? Is that allowed?

I preferred Handy Price Widget's earlier work.

Why do I need to install OpenSSL, Python and SQLite just for a PDF renderer? The world's gone mad!

Looks like another beer myth is about to be born. Scientists analyze stability of beer foam, and mistakenly conclude tripels have better foam because they're fermented three times. (They're not.) Here's the bullshit conclusions presented in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...

Swift bores are as tedious as Dylan bores. You have to listen to the lyrics, man, it's really profound.

Does no pub in Glasgow understand that people want a relaxing pint on their way home from work, and don't want to.listen to Whitney Houston?

Havas, the agency who launched Madri, could be in hot water — the original designer of the font they used for the logo is coming after Molson Coors for allegedly using a pirated version of the font without a license. reddit.com/r/typography/1msh04z/

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Hope the beer didn't get damaged

Mild is on its way back to dominance

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

There's still a cultural divide between corporate software and free software Corp: "Recover a deleted file" Free: "VISIT THE SHEETS GRAVEYARD"

Also, before that year, nobody seems to have brewed a specialty beer just for Oktoberfest before the 1870s, so it was likely all regular Lagerbier/Sommerbier. Unfortunately, the oldest sources for ads of specific beers at Oktoberfest I could find are from 1882.

My understanding is that the term Märzenbier in Munich and Bavaria was synonymous with Lagerbier and Sommerbier, but fell out of use when the Märzenbierlose were discontinued in 1800. It was then only picked up again as essentially a marketing term in 1872.

Wish we could just store up this heat for winter.

Hello Munich, this is what a full Maß looks like, in case you have never seen one.

Once a year, one of the most tranquil places to drink beer is transformed into one of the most raucous

Excellent news that 10 Brodog bars are closing. I hope the whole company goes under. The world of beer would be better off if it had never existed. That's it, that's the tweet. Do please quote me.

Today is Rauchbier Preservation Day, and I'm in Bamberg for it. Stay tuned #TagDerBewahrungDesRauchbieres

What makes a great pub? Take everything the big pub companies do: loud music, microwave food, shit beer, renovations that nobody wanted, garish menus all over – and do the opposite.

What was the weird obsession with post codes about that Marstons' marketing people had?

don't drink vocation beer

For American defeat.

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them.

As always happens, no sooner has the beer festival programme gone to print than messages start arriving saying that breweries are out of stock of the ordered beer, etc.

Got a haircut yesterday. I assume the guy usually shears sheep.

It struck me that since Roman times cities have constructed elaborate public fountains to provide fresh drinking water. It's only in our modern times that we force people to carry vats of water around with them or buy little plastic bottles.

Did Napoleon Bonaparte kick-start German Porter? refreshingbeer.blogspot.com/2025/06/napo...

"I homebrewed a lager with kvike and tasted it side by side with an Augustiner and there was no difference" I need to stop looking at YouTube

Is it snobbery to expect “beer educators” to be able to pronounce the styles they’re trying to tell you about?

I think that most bosses, rather than using LLM to replace their underlings, will instead either a) demand they use LLM without understanding what they do or b) accuse them of using LLM because they don't understand what they do The problem is that there's nobody you can phone up and shout at

Still after all these years looking for an efficient way to get footnotes into HTML.

I was quoted on a podcast about British TV ads due to a blog post about Holsten Pils open.spotify.com/episode/4fCX... (Holsten stuff at 58.09) Which just goes to show, if you write about things nobody else is interested in, eventually you will be treated as some sort of authority.

More detail on the Malzmühle–Gaffel deal: refreshingbeer.blogspot.com/2025/06/trou...

Puzzling and surprising news from Cologne as Mühlen Kölsch sells its brewing business and brand to rival Gaffel. Puzzling because Mühlen only recently bought Sünner, so it’s a bit more complicated than just another sad takeover.

Reading 19th century descriptions of brewing, I’m exhausted by the time the mash is finished, and there’s still a six-hour boil to go. It’s amazing that any beer was ever made at all.

BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has said the level of suffering in Gaza is "utterly intolerable" as the RAF conducts surveillance flights to help Israel choose targets to bomb with the F-35s he helped build x

I was speaking to someone at the weekend who thought Bass was a small independent brewery until taken over by InBev.

The kiss of death: “At this point, drinking craft beer is like what an old person would do” www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/beer... by @evanrail.bsky.social

A surprise to me – “Luftmalz” (lit. air malt), unkilned malt, wasn’t necessarily dried in the sun as I had imagined, but could be taken straight from the malting floor for immediate use. If you make your own malt, it doesn't have to be completely dried or stored.

Stell dir vor, du bist als Migrant und Palästinenser, nicht vom offiziellen Account der CDU, SPD, Grünen, FDP, ja nicht einmal der FCKAFD geblockt, aber von dem der selbsternannten "Linke". #Staatsräson

@larsga.bsky.social I enjoyed your Westphalian farmhouse beer piece. Are the Folklore Commission sources you used online?