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.
On Brewing Education
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*This blog has lead me in some unexpected directions*. Most recently to a
very interesting conversation with Kathryn Thomson, the Head of Education
and P...
Dublin bound
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As with most trips, it begins with a taxi ride to the airport. I’m such a
lazy git, there being loads of public transport alternatives. I do, at
least, h...
A Cracking Pub and Two Microbreweries
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Did you know that Melbourne has more trams than anywhere else? Well, I
think that's what was said. I can confirm at least the place was hoaching*
with t...
Welcome to GADDS' 22nd Birthday Beer Festival!
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Here's a short and sweet guide......
Tokens - in order to keep service as speedy as possible, all transactions
are by tokens. Please buy these at the tok...
Every little helps
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I’ve just drunk – in fact, I’ve just made a small detour in order to drink
– a pint of Burning Sky Plateau. Burning Sky is a brewery I’ve got a lot of
time...
Homebrew - Cheaper than the Pub?
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The price of beer has been on my mind a fair bit lately.
At the weekend I kicked my first keg of homebrew for the 2024, a 5.1% amber
kellerbier that I br...
Reconnections
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It's fair to say that the last few years have wreaked havoc on the way
that we've lived our lives. People have lost their jobs. People have lost
their b...
Paradise Garden
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Timbo's Dream
One thing you rarely encounter in a tightly-packed and traffic-addled city
centre like Preston's is a pub with a proper beer garden. All th...
Golden Pints 2022
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This has been a strange year, and a lot of the classic Golden Pints
categories don’t make any sense for me any more. You might think that the
paucity of po...
Bad Kingdom (1972)
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In 1972, the government drew up plans to construct a deportation facility
off the coast of Ireland that could house as many as 70 million people -
the en...
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...
Living with cancer, chemo, lockdown and work
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Moving from a position of being self-employed to working for someone else
is something of an adjustment. Going from having control and responsibility
of ab...
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...
New exhibit! Zymoglyphic Art of the Modern Age
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Art in the Zymoglyphic region was originally a way to connect with an
unseen world, as can be seen in the artifacts of the Rust Age. In more
secular ti...
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 ...
A Quick Blog Post For IPA Day
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*If you really want to know why IPA was supposedly so strong and hoppy,
look not to the breweries, but to India...*
Today is apparently International Let's...
Irish Craft In London - One Year On...
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As we head into the early Spring, it's almost time to get up to speed with
a new round of events featuring the best of the Irish Craft Beer Scene. In
2016,...
In the Dry Dock
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For those still linked to this blog or those who are skulking, half-cut,
in the darkness by your lap top waiting for news of my next move so you can
bitte...
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...
BrewBarrel – Homebrew Kit
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I was contacted by the guys over at Brewbarrel – a German startup which has
just launched its business in the United Kingdom – and I accepted their
offer o...
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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