That pitcher of beer on the table! Do they have their own tap system at home, or did they just pour lots of beer bottles into one pitcher just for presentation?
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That pitcher of beer on the table! Do they have their own tap system at home, or did they just pour lots of beer bottles into one pitcher just for presentation?
The tiled interior of the Sheffield Tap. Photo taken by my wife Viola
A row of 10 hand pumps in The Fargate in Sheffield. A Thornbridge Jaipur pump clip is visible in the foreground.
The wooden decorated interior of the Old Hall Hotel in Hope, Peak District
A pint of Theakston Old Peculiar next to an open bag of Scampi Fries. The pub is the Three Tuns in Sheffield
It has been a nice few days of pubbing around Sheffield and the Peak District.
A photo of a brewery building. On the street-facing side of the building, it says "Brauerei von Johann Reinwald". The caption underneath is: +213 758 Burgebrach Brauerei von Johann Reinwald (Aufn. 1930-1940) Source: https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20467107?part=0&medium=mi04410c01 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
While searching for something entirely different, I came across this photo of Mönchsambacher brewery from before 1938 (i.e. before it was owned by the Zehendner family, the current owners).
#beerhistory
Honestly, I expected it to fail at the time, but was then positively surprised how quickly secondary fermentation kicked off. I assume the Brett in there was just pretty sturdy.
A few years ago, I added the sediment of two Boon Gueuze bottles to a fermenter of Old Ale for secondary fermentation, and it came out lovely and complex. That was inspired by @brewhenry.bsky.social and his talks about Prize Old Ale.
@PianoScience 16 years ago @cmanalo89 see ya in 10 years! when people have 500T HD's and 10GB. graphics! lol @thomasfuchs78 52 seconds ago (edited) Hi, the future here, for graphics cards you pretty much nailed it, but your hard disk capacity estimate was too optimistic.
my hobby, comment on old youtube comments just to see if they reply
Dittsche.
Improv comedy situated in a snack bar in Hamburg. Probably not the easiest to understand (lots of Hamburg dialect and other colloquialisms). Used to be filmed and broadcast live. Sometimes quite absurd but my kind of humour. You should be able to find episodes on YouTube.
A snippet of an 18th century Czech-Latin-German dictionary. It says: Piwo. Cereviſia, æ, f. Zythum, i. n. Potus ex hordeo, & lupulo factus. Das Bier. Piwo bile, Cereviſia triticea. Weitzenbier, Weißbier. Piwo bledé, Cereviſia ſublucida. Lichtes Bier. Pjwo borecké. Görkavia namque Boêmicè Borek appellatur. Sicut ergo ex Oset, & profet adjectivum fit Ofecty, Prosecky, ita tex Borek, Borecky. Cereviſia Görkavienfis, Borecenfis. Gor- kauer Bier. Piwo chmelnaté, w némž mnoho chmelu geſt. Cereviſia lupuloſa, multi lupuli. Bier, das einen starken Hopfen hat. Piwo čisté. Cereviſia defæcata. Klar Bier. Piwo Englické. Curmi, indecl. Engelländisches Bier. Piwo Englické sladké bez chmele wařené. Cereviſia finè lupulo cocta. Saporis melliri. Ale/ ein süſſes Bier in Engelland, welches ohne Hopfen gebrauet wird. Piwo gečné, staré. Hordeacea cerevisia. Gerstenbier. Piwo hořké, Horčak. Cereviſia amara. Bitterbier. Source: https://digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10524191?page=128,129
Just as a side note, describing unhopped beer does not seem to be a new problem. I recently found this in an 18th century Czech-Latin-German dictionary, and they needed a lot of words to describe unhopped English beer, no matter which language.
I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Pubs, the second living room of the English people.
A French mini doc on the history and culture of English pubs, featuring yours truly.
Thank you for inviting me to be part of this, @artefr.bsky.social
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Large stainless steel bowl of fresh hops
East Kent Golding hops harvest. First time for these bines. 469g wet so should be about 79-94g once dehydrated
I have neglected my hops this year while busy with the new job. One lesson is to always cut new bamboo for my poles. The don’t hold up in the windy and wet weather a second year
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It's the same playbook as the Tories, who put Priti Patel and Suella Braverman in positions of cruelty over migrants, given their respective families' backgrounds as Indian immigrants in Uganda, Kenya or Mauritia, and later the UK.
Me asking "Create GTA6 in Turbo Pascal" and the AI replying "no."
Good bot.
When travelling to Munich for work, I brought my own Punjana tea bags because they are my favourite, but the Munich tap water makes the tea just shite. Unfortunately our office managers don't seem to care (we rent individual rooms), so all the water is unfiltered, and even the coffee is just horrid.
Does it say on the bottom who made it?
Beer stein in the shape of a penny farthing bicycle, with the front wheel, which is where the beer goes, shaped like a ball. The rider is a lid for the stein, which is openable with a thumb-activated hinge.
Beer Stein from Germany
ca. 1890
Pewter rider/lid and rear wheel
Stoneware container
GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with a bit on BrewDog, and several links that connect with and echo each other in pleasing ways on influencers and gentrification. 🍻🍺
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Wuchteln?
A clear amber/copper pint glass of Bass sitting on a beer mat on a varnished wooden table with the bar in the background
Oh hello #Bass
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
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So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
BLOG POST: Jess on the difficulty of watching anything but the most mainstream sports in the pub and why she dreams of something better. 🍺🍻
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Roughly 200 breweries are expected to open across the US this year. Who opens a brewery in 2026?
I talked to a few of the entrepreneurs behind them: wapo.st/4l336RS
So who knows. As I witness with a previous employer that filed for insolvency in late 2022, the whole process can be agonisingly slow.
BrewDog Berlin filed for insolvency last Friday. I've not read anything saying that BrewDog sale included BrewDog in Germany or any of its assets. The provisional insolvency administrator might negotiate a deal with someone, but I've not even seen the official insolvency bulletin for BrewDog.
If you missed my talk on American beer culture last week, here’s the video. We discussed how German immigrants turned the U.S. into a beer country, and then how during the craft era Americans invented a new way of thinking about and brewing hoppy ales.
A simple German woodcutting from 1490 showing a Renaissance dude on the right who is having a lower back spasm so bad his right shoe was blown clean off. On the left is a witch (“eine Hexe") with a bow and arrow who just shot him in the back. (Otherwise, why would his back hurt? Hexenschuss!) The engraving is credited to Johann Zainer as was taken from the book “Tractatus von den bösen weibern, die man hexen nennt,” or “Treatise on evil women, who are called witches,“ by Ulrich Molitor.
The Czech word for lower back pain or lumbago is hexenšus, which is borrowed from a German word, Hexenschuss.
The first time I heard it I was like, “Oh, like a witch just shot you in the back? That’s what you think happened?”
Dear reader, at one point, that’s exactly what they thought.
BLOG POST: In pursuit of 'the best in town' people often end up in pubs they hate. 🍻🍺
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Barrel cleaning at Cantillon.
