August 12, 2016 / consort3

Beer

There has been a renaissance in beer brewing in the UK and US. I think it started with the Campaign for real ale (CAMRA) in the UK and spread to the US where it is called craft beer. Dissatisfaction with the products of the large breweries in each country started the trend. With 1400 breweries in the UK and about 4200 in the US it has taken off.

http://edsbeer.blogspot.com/2011/11/brief-history-of-cultivated-hops-in.html

http://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/herts-history/work/the-brewing-industry/malting-in-hertfordshire-in-the-mid-17th-century

http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/7/come-hear-this-ditty-seventeenth-century-drinking-songs-and-hearing-the-past

http://www.hotrumcow.co.uk/beer-yeast-genetic-research/

http://munchies.vice.com/articles/what-if-you-could-detox-from-drinking-beer

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/the-very-best-beer/

http://news.yahoo.com/california-craft-beer-brewers-balance-drafts-drought-144310975–finance.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/renowned-belgian-beer-brewer-cantillon-says-its-a-victim-of-climate-change/

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/5000-year-old-pay-stub-shows-that-ancient-workers-were-paid-in-beer/

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/brilliant-news-doing-two-hours-a-week-of-exercise-offsets-all-the-horror-you-do-to-your-body-with-drinking

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/09/daily-chart-7

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/drinking-beer-more-effective-pain-relief-painkillers-say-scientists-1619585

I recently found the best brown ale, Lewes Castle Brown by Harvey’s of Sussex. Just bettered by Blindmans Icarus. I must go and see the Widmer Bros Brewery in Portland, Oregon since it combines 2 of my interests beer and trains.

http://www.natgeotraveller.co.uk/smart-travel/features/on-the-real-ale-trail/

Maybe us Brits know something about beer

http://draftmag.com/science-session-abv-processing/

Beer and a statistics pioneer

http://priceonomics.com/the-guinness-brewer-who-revolutionized-statistics/

Another way of measuring malt quality was by Allan Hey, Timothy Taylors head brewer from 1966 to 1995. He would count out 100 grains of barley malt on top of a cask left in the brewery yard to see how many grains pigeons would eat! Taylors use Golden Promise barley normally used for malt whiskies.

Reddit beer forum

https://www.reddit.com/r/beer/

I am only going out for one

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