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.
The best beer writing of 2024 according to us
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Believe it or not, there’s been a lot of good writing about beer and pubs
in 2024, with a few key themes emerging. Why ‘believe it or not’? Because
it’s ...
Let's Brew - 1896 Eldridge Pope Double Stout
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The other Stout from Eldridge Pope was more of a Stout-like strength.
Though I’m not sure it’s strong enough to really count as a Double Stout.
By the st...
WWW 2024: Planet Earth is blue
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This final round-up of pubs from this year’s Winter Warmer Wander
(Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark, strong
and festive beer...
Christmas 2024
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It’s the evening of *December 25th* and *Christmas* – the so-called *“big
day”* is nearly over. As usual, it’s been an enormous fuss over what is,
just a...
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 ...
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...
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