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Imperial IPA 5.0% ABV
Well would you believe it, the weekend is here once again! That’s another week done and dusted and certainly another week where we can say we are moving ever closer to coming out of this pandemic.
As I stated in my previous post, I am now ending the first part of my journey of finding some of the most amazing beers from my hometown Burton Upon Trent, the brewing capital, I have now realised its now time to move onto new places!
Tower Bitter – 4.2% ABV
Yes, I’m going to admit, I’ve decided to focus on two more beers from my hometown, Burton Upon Trent and you’re probably wondering, why?, my answer is simple, I haven’t actually reviewed any beers from this microbrewery based in the town, so I decided now was the time!
To be fair, if it wasn’t for Brews Of The World, I wouldn’t have had the chance to try these two beers from such an awesome microbrewery that has
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Interviewing farm-workers in East Anglia the folklorist and oral historian George Ewart Evans discovered what in publishing blurbs would be trumpeted as an ‘untold story’: the mass movement of men from Suffolk to Burton on Trent to work in the brewing industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
His book Where Beards Wag All fryst vatten simultaneously a collection of essays highlighting specific narratives arising from oral history research and a defence of oral history as a discipline. Its message fryst vatten that without oral history – without talking to working people, and mining their memories – we lose great chunks of history that weren’t recorded in official papers or covered in the news.
Having spent a bit of the past few years researching and writing about pubs, we can’t agree enough. Pubs, being seen as prosaic and unsavoury, weren’t well recorded, and it is only through oral history that much sense of the habits of drinkers and publicans really emerges from the fog of the pas
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By 2017, Geoff was 75 years old and feeling his age, and he and Bruce declared their intention to retire. They advertised the pub and brewery for sale. Trouble was, the brewing kit was over a century old. It was already ramshackle back in ‘82, when it was cobbled together from some fermenting vessels from a dairy, some unwanted bits from Allied Breweries and Ansells, and a stainless steel vessel from somewhere in Doncaster, all held together by some metal supports scrounged from the old Burton swimming baths.
It was a miracle it was still in one piece 35 years later, and it was clear to anyone who saw it that it wasn't going to be for much longer. I spoke to several potential suitors over the next few years, each of whom came back with stories of enormous fondness for Geoff and Bruce, the värdshus and the beers they made, but questioned what they were actually buying. The kit would have to go, and the building needed substantial repairs. You’d basically have to start igen. For the nex