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.
183. Spanking Roger, Sawley Road
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Spanking Roger, Sawley Road, Miles Platting. (c) Spanking Roger website.
We rather enjoyed our Saturday noon visit to the Spanking Roger on Sawley Road, M...
Wanna Judge Beer? - Update
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Here's the list of beers to be judged on Thursday 1st March for the
Lancashire Cup. There will be others (including keg lager!) but being from
outside Lanc...
"Boston Lager" - A Follow Up
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*The Brewer's Guardian* had an article on the story I spoke about yesterday
-about *Sam Adams Boston* Lager being brewed by Shepherd Neame. I was quite
st...
The Genesis of the Goldings
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*The origins of the Goldings hop varieties: The Main Event.**
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*‘To a beginner desirous of obtaining definite ideas on the nature of hops,
nothing is so p...
William Younger adverts from the 1920's (part seven)
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Still no end in sight of this series. God I love the British Newspaper
Archive. It's spitting out more material than even I can cope with.
You can see that...
If this is the future....
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.....it's time to go teetotal. A 2.8% 'smooth' beer. I don't care if it is
only £1.95 a pint.
Spotted in Mills Hill on Saturday I think I made the right...
#BrewdayIHP
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Generally speaking I brew on a Saturday. Mrs V goes running on Saturday
mornings and so I try to have my mash started by 7am, half past at the
latest. Star...
I Have Been to New Zealand, and It Is Good!
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As I type these words, I sit in the Wellington airport awaiting the start
of my lengthy journey to Auckland, Los Angeles and finally Toronto. It has
been a...
Ramsbottom Beer Festival (2)
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Well the tables and chairs are empty, and the glasses packed away. And the
results of the festival are:
*The Good*
(1) A good venue with a separate room for...
Open It! Live In Leeds
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In the spirit of a picture being worth a thousand words, I've set up a
Tumblr account for tonight's Open It Live, in Leeds. You should be able to
find it h...
Do we live in a Western Free Country?
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In my last post I criticised The Portman Group for seeming to side with the
Government's propaganda regarding the use of so called binge drinking as an
exc...
Energy recovery project in numbers.
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We collect wort from our mash tun and heat it in the copper to boiling
point, and beyond. The amount of energy (E) required to raise the
temperature from T...
A Book At Beertime: 'Brewed Awakening'
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Do you really want to know what craft beer is all about? At a time when the British Beer Blogosphere is engaged in sporadic but intense efforts to decode th...
Odessa in London
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Almost a year ago now I went down to Otley Brewing in South Wales and did a
brew with them. Unlike many collaborative brews, they made me come up with
the...
Winterfest 2012
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This past weekend was Winterfest, the sister festival to fall's Autumn Brew
Review. Where ABR is generally packed and outdoors, Winterfest is a bit
more au...
Nothing is Forever
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Friday mourning, I’m dressed in black,
Douse the house lights, I’m not coming back. (well, maybe?)
Those of you who know me will appreciate that I don’t r...
Nip this prohibitionist nonsense in the bud
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Right, this is important. We are facing a potential alcohol ban on trains
in Scotland. It is only a bit of flag-waving at the moment, but it needs a
good h...
The End
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The future
All good things come to and end. Indeed all crap things come to an end too.
It started from reading beer blogs. The curiosity was mild at first ...
Moving House: The Good Stuff 2011
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Well, it's happened. After falling in love with it whilst using it for
Culture Vultures, I've moved The Good Stuff onto Wordpress.
My new address is http:...
Time for a Change…
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Dear Reader - Blogobeer.com will be three years old at the end of June.
Which seems like as good a time as any to knock it on the head and do
something dif...
So it’s farewell, trusty swimming towel
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The good thing about not being one of the world’s best-known brewers is
that when brewing stops, there aren’t thousands of disappointed customers
hammerin...
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