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Brewing beer in Croydon for 350 years (article)

Herbert Shaw, "A Croydon Brewery," Brewery History 131 (2009): 2-18.  Operating under various names from 1586 (or earlier) to 1936.

Posted by David Fahey on July 5, 2009 at 08:32 AM in Brewing , Britain | Permalink

Scandinavian brewing history (articles)

Most of the British publication Brewery History, no. 121 (2009) consists of a special Scandinavian theme.


Siri Aanstad, "Introduction: the Scandinavian Brewing Industry" (26-28)

Siri Aanstad, "A Small, Global Adventure: Mapping Norwegian Beer Exports in the 19th Century" (29-50)

Martin Jes Iversen and Andrew Arnold, "Carlsberg: From Exporter to an Integrated Multinational Enterprise" (51-62)

Martin Jes Iversen, "Carlsberg and the Cartels" (63-67)

Peter Sandberg, "The Pressure of New Innovations on Transnational Cartels and Trade Organisations: The Tin Can and the Increased Competition between the Swedish and Danish Brewing Industries since the 1950s" (68-85)

Posted by David Fahey on July 2, 2009 at 09:02 PM in Beer, Brewing , Denmark, Norway, Sweden | Permalink

"Beer Y'All," documentary film about North Carolina craft breweries

The documentary film, "Beer Y'All," visits 27 craft breweries in North Carolina.  Its first showing will be on Mary 21, 2009, at the western city of Asheville, home to many craft breweries. For more, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on May 10, 2009 at 04:05 PM in Brewing , United States | Permalink

China's ancient breweries: spirits and rice wine (article)

Li Kai, “China’s Ancient Breweries: A Tradition Thriving in Towns from the Yangtze to Yunnan Province,” China Today 58/4 (April 2009): 48-52.

Posted by David Fahey on April 19, 2009 at 04:39 PM in Brewing , China | Permalink

Beer Wars (film)

The website blog of US News & World Report provides an interview between beer historian Amy Mittelman and film director Anat Baron here.  It also offers an unenthusiastic review of the film (Beer Wars) by Amy Mittelman here. Anat Baron, herself a teetotaler, focuses on craft brewers, specifically Rhonda Kallman who created the caffeinated beer Moonshot and Sam Calagione of rapidly growing Dogfish Head Brewery.

Posted by David Fahey on April 18, 2009 at 09:58 PM in Belarus, Brewing , United States | Permalink

Flintshire pubs and breweries (book)

David Rowe, Flintshire Pubs and Breweries (History Press, Ltd., forthcoming 2009).

Posted by David Fahey on April 7, 2009 at 09:25 PM in Books, Brewing , Drinking Spaces, Scotland | Permalink

Brewery in England (article)

Tim Holt, "Belvoir Brewery, Old Dalton, Leicestershire," Brewery History 130 (2009): 86-90.  Illustrated.

Posted by David Fahey on April 5, 2009 at 10:12 AM in Brewing , Britain | Permalink

Hops in England (article)

Kim Cook, "Who Produced Fuggle's Hops?," Brewery History 130 (2009): 3-17.

Posted by David Fahey on April 5, 2009 at 10:09 AM in Brewing , Britain | Permalink

Britain's 1900 arsenic poisoning (article)

Peter Dyer, "The 1900 Arsenic Poisoning Epidemic," Brewery History 130 (2009): 65-85.

Posted by David Fahey on April 2, 2009 at 06:54 PM in Beer, Brewing , Britain | Permalink

Attempts to save an English brewery museum (articles)

Two short articles in the Museums Journal 108 (2008) about the fight to save the brewery museum acquired by Coors (which intends to close it as unprofitable).  Gareth Harris (June 2008) reports that the National Trust has joined the campaign, while Patrick Steel (July 2007) quotes the minister of culture, Margaret Hodge, in support.

Posted by David Fahey on March 29, 2009 at 12:41 PM in Brewing , United Kingdom | Permalink