A very strange decision… Probably
Why on earth would anybody want to write about lager? It’s nasty, fizzy, too cold and doesn’t taste of anything.-
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Category Archives: Brewing history
Cheap and cheerful or a UK lager classic?
A strange combination is Skol. One of UK lager’s oldest brands, it has been passed from hand to hand, merrily swapping owners as brewing consolidation caught up with it again and again. From Burton-brewed to cheap and cheerful discount lager … Continue reading
Carl Jacobsen’s lager project
That old man Jacobsen wasn’t too enamoured of his son’s ideas of importing lager beer to Great Britain is clear to see from the letters he sent to Carl while Jacobsen the younger was on his four-year stint around the … Continue reading
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Letters from home to satisfy a brewer’s thirst
I’ve been digging into Carlsberg history again – more specifically the letters from J.C. Jacobsen to his son Carl. As a young man Carl was packed off to travel the breweries of Europe for four years as part of his … Continue reading
