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Ronald Pattinson
The truth about Scottish beer and brewing. A highly detailed look at Scottish beer between 1840 and 1970, including more than 350 historic beer recipes and endless tables of facts…
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A history of British brewing in the, initially, very difficult post-war years. Brewing techniques, ingredients, beer styles and 200 homebrew recipes.
A selection of historic home brew recipes for various types of Strong Ale, covering every decade from the 1830s to the 1990s. All the UK types are there: Stock Ale…
My travels promoting my crazy book about historic Scottish beer, with lots of laughs and lots of other stuff.
The harrowing tale of British beer during WW I. The cuts in strength, the restrictions in production - and the depressing stuff, too.
An insane number of WW II beer recipes - over 550 of them - in a single book. No-one will evere brew them all.
This book attempts to tell the story of London Stout. From inception, glory days, decline and extinction. A story with ups and downs. And a few wars. Lots of recipes…
Everything Mild - but in hardback form! All you ever wanted to know about Mild and then a whole lot more. And then even more. You’ll beg for it to…
Everything you need to know about Mild Ale. Its history, how to brew it, what it was like 100 years ago, what it was like 50 years ago. What it…
Numbers, numbers, numbers. The vital statistics of 7,500 beers covering more than 150 years and several continents. Can't remember how many exactly. You'll need to buy the book to find…
Pubs in the best beer-drinking towns in the West of Germany. Cologne, Dusseldorf, Munster, Dortmund. Duisburg, Osnabruck, Ratingen and others I can't recall at the moment.
What was draught beer like in London pubs in the 1920’s? It would be great to know, but surely it isn’t posible? Well it is. Thanks to Whitbread’s industrial espionage…
This is the story of my travels. Sometimes, beer by beer, frequently more fanciful. An outsider bumbling through a brash and often bemusing, beer culture. Where I encounter brewers, beers…
Jaunty tales of me on my beery travels through Europe, the USA and even South America.
Reports of my various exotic beery travels over the past year. Where I receount every breakfast and every beer drunk.
A travel guide to a country that no longer exists, the DDR. What could be more useful than that? Find out where and what you should have been drinking in…
Like all styles that have been around for more than five minutes, Berliner Weisse has undergone several transformations, adapting to technological, political and social change. This book documents those changes…
Everything you ever wanted to know about Porter and Stout. . . and lots more. The history, the characteristics, the breweries, the grists and numbers. Way too many numbers. Recipes…
A selection of historic beer recipes from the early 1800’s to the 1960’s. Every type of beer you can imagine: porter, Stout, IPA, American Ale, American Lager, Dutch Lager, Mild…
Ronald Pattinson,Alexei Pattinson
I was dragging my kids around pubs before they could walk and were able to run away. Something Andrew frequently did when I was trying to enjoy a beer in…
More than you will ever need to know about beer and brewing in the UK during WW II. Plus some interesting bits about brewing in other parts of Europe during…
