Thursday, 18 January 2018

Beer History: Politics versus Bad Beer ... and The True Heart of Man?

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I n 1834 William Cobbett an English journalist, farmer and member of parliament wrote a series of letters back to a labourer called C...
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Thursday, 4 January 2018

Food & Drink History: {Opinion} Be Careful What You Wish For...

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A s you may be aware, many food writers, bloggers, tweeters and other so called food/nutrition/wellness ' experts ' tend to ann...
Friday, 22 December 2017

Travel: Bonn, Germany Part I - Christmas Markets, Castles and Beethoven's Birthplace!

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S o here we go again... I have a reoccuring fear that our annual pilgrimage to a Christmas market each December has become so regula...
Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Beer History: Genuine London Porter in Kilkenny - 1767

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H ere's a nice early-ish mention from 1767 of London porter being available in Kilkenny - hardly a shock but nice to see it in print....
Thursday, 30 November 2017

Drink History: Hop Bitters - For New Life and Vigor!

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H ere are a three of adverts from the late 19th and very early 20th century, two of which make great claims of the benefits of Hop Bit...
Friday, 24 November 2017

Beer & Whiskey: Did Jameson get it wrong?

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(This post relates to free product I received from Jameson - although there's more to it than that - so back out now if that bothe...
Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Food History: Hams! Hams! Hams! Christmas in Carlow - 1891

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A s I've mentioned previously , Carlow was a pretty cosmopolitan and prosperous place back in the 1800s and here's a nice advert fr...