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The Death of the English Brewpub
It’s an early start for us this morning as we’re heading off to interview David Bruce who founded the Firkin chain of brewpubs in 1979. On the one hand, he’s a very influential figure: there were four...
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Non-keg, non-chemical, all-malt
Yesterday, we took delivery of around fifty mid-nineteen-eighties issues of the Campaign for Real Ale’s What’s Brewing newspaper, and have begun to immerse ourselves in the strange but familiar world...
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The Return of Dogbolter
When we interviewed David ‘Firkin’ Bruce last summer, he told us about his new role as Chairman of the West Berkshire Brewery. Last week, that rather belatedly triggered an idea: maybe, with a brewery...
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‘Saucy’ Beer Names
Saucy beer names — Dirty Tackle, Piddle Slasher, Old Slapper — are a bit of fun to some, off-putting to others, and either way are another battleground for debates over ‘political correctness’,...
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