This is Jon's personal "blog" - I work at an independent microbrewery (a small-scale, artisanal producer of “real ale” and other beery treats), based in the Furness area in Cumbria (or N. Lancs if you'd rather). Or a "Craft Brewer", if you like. We're known as "Stringers", or "Stringers Beer". I don't just make beer - I also sound-off in half-informed rants on a variety of subjects. Like here.
Monday, Monday
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We start our day at around nine again. With tea, made by Dolores, of course.
It’s getting on for ten when we stumble down to breakfast. It’s fairly
quiet...
Swan at West Peckham off to a good start
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Regular readers may remember a post I wrote at the beginning of *November,*
concerning the *Swan*, in the village of *West Peckham.* The post describes
h...
London - A Small Cask Snapshot
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I was in London last week for a few days and decided on a whim to have one
entire day - or thereabouts - just drinking cask. "Unwise" I hear you say
and ...
WWW 2024: East is East
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Here’s the third round-up (of five) of pubs from this year’s Winter Warmer
Wander, Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark,
strong ...
Thomas Hardy: My Part in his Downfall
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*I was going to use Return of the Native for the title of this post but I'm
so slow other people have got there before me. *I don't know what the
book's ...
Cable Street – they shall not pass
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How time flies but ideas prevail. Yesterday was eighty eight years to the
day after the battle of Cable Street, in which the communities of the East
End ca...
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*Green Hop Season 2024*
This year we're celebrating the Green Hop season to its fullest, with two
events at our Taproom.
*Green Hop Launch*
*Save the...
West End Beer Festival makes a return
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Image from 2018 festival
Before the pandemic, Glasgow’s West End Beer Festival had been making a bit
of an impact.
Now that the days of pasta rationing, ...
Last night at the JT
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*Yesterday evening, I went to the Jerusalem Tavern. It was the pub's last
night.*
The operators, St Peter's Brewery, haven't renewed their long lease, an...
A final pint
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My last blog post was a bit of a downer. I’ll try to cheer up on this one.
I seem to have created a theme of chronicling end of pubs. The travails of
the...
A Tale Of Two Weekends
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The never ending tour of Manchester continues. With a lot of places either
still closed completely or not opening early in the week, it's easier to do
a ...
The Session: Where I'm/It's At.
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Well, it has been a while. Since there was a proper Session. Since I wrote
a thing on this blog. Glad to be prodded. I think about blogging often, but
the...
The Positively Unknown
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New book announcement! "The Positively Unknown: A Kid's Guide to the
Zymoglyphic Museum" is now available. Pick up a copy while you are
visiting the mu...
The Thorny Question
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Dusty A few weeks back I went into one of Preston's ever-increasing number
of micropubs. Usually this place stocks the uber-awesome beers from
uber-aweso...
Letting go
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It is often difficult to accept defeat. Indeed, when one has been working
on something for a long time it can be almost impossible to actually make
that fi...
Goodbye
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I never realised this was still active.
However due to the untimely demise of the creator of the site I feel it is
inappropriate to to keep it going.
The ...
Passive-aggressive hate mail
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Way back in 2001, my brother and I opened a specialist beer bar in London.
You can read more about it *here*.
The way we were doings things proved fairly n...
Caxton Inn / XX Inn, River Street
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Caxton Inn, River Street, Hulme, 1921. (c) Bob Potts [1]. The Caxton Inn
was a Carlton Brewery house that stood on the corner of River Street and
Welcomb S...
Brooklyn Comes To Dalston
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Brooklyn Brewery are on the road again, taking their 'Mash' concept out to
nine countries. This week, they've been in London, with events like a DIY
dinner...
Thomas Hardy's Ale Reborn
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This beauty arrived by post yesterday so I thought it was time to end my
silence.
The rights to the Thomas Hardy Ale name have now passed to a company in...
Recipe for
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Busy days, busy days. I had an hour in departures this week with no
wireless and a useless phone so my 150 e-mails per day couldn’t find me.
During my co...
His name is "Stay!"
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I'm lucky enough to get a call every so often from the Endress+Hauser
Corporation to make something out of their spare parts. They give me full
creative...
4 comments:
Surely it should be a herdwick for cumbrian beers?
sheep-spotter.
Isn't this the ideal baaar?
(Grins sheepishly)
Thank you Shelagh. I knew it wouldn't be long. Ewe should win a prize.
Incidentally, Ed, it looks mostly like a Suffolk?. We've got a fair few of those 'round here also.
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