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Tim Holt

@BeerHasAHistory

Editor of Brewery History - a journal dedicated to all aspects of beer and brewing history

 London
breweryhistory.com/journal/
Joined February 2009
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Just published in Notes and Records, a paper about Newton's beer mug! Read about the wooden flagon that Newton is on record as giving to his Trinity College, Cambridge chamber-fellow, John Wickins, which survives intact: royalsocietypublishing.org/d… #notesandrecords #twitterhistorians
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Newton's beer mug rediscovered. Read about it in Notes and Records royalsocietypublishing.org/d… and The Times thetimes.com/uk/science/arti…
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Now in paperback - Globalization in a Glass by @beer_historian is an exploration into the global spread of Pilsner beer, analysing new technological & scientific innovations, business strategies & the changing tastes of metropolitan & colonial consumers. bit.ly/3zOfTVq
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Replying to @NigelSommelier @HookyBrewery @Adnams
Many thanks for the recommendation! And really nice to see it being read in a suitable setting... It's still in print: the publisher's in the US (upittpress.org/books/9780822…) but the usual retailers over here should be able to get it easily enough.

Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880 - University of Pittsburgh Press

|9780822965312| How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth...

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One week from tonight the 6th Annual Beer Culture Summit begins. A public gathering that has become one of the most diverse, accessible, educational, and equitable gathering in both beer and the cultural arts. Join us from wherever you are October 16-19. beerculturecenter.org/beer-c…
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We lost our twitter account to the birth date tech issue so we are rebuilding. We have managed to get our old handle back but lost all our followers and old tweets so please bear with us, re-follow, and send us your interesting drinking news and events.
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111 years of Metzer Eck. Wish I'd been there ...
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If anyone is interested The Brewery History Society group on FB has now reached 1000 members and is quite active. Perhaps a lighter look at the past with various posts about bottles, memorabilia, old records etc. facebook.com/share/kDozNBBEA…
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You can never escape brewing history ...
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Please share far and wide! I've also got a full video announcement going onto Youtube a little later.
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Forschungsgebäude an der Seestraße, dazu zählen das Robert-Koch-Institut und die TU Berlin sowie die VLB
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The latest issue of the Economic History Yearbook on International Knowledge Transfer and Circulation within the Brewing Industry is free to access here: degruyter.com/journal/key/jb…
International Knowledge Transfer and Circulation within the Brewing Industry / Internationaler...

International Knowledge Transfer and Circulation within the Brewing Industry / Internationaler...

Volume 65, issue 1 of the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook was published in 2024.

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Who was the luckiest Victorian ever? It would be hard to beat Alfred Barnard, who toured 162 distilleries between 1885-87 and wrote a book on whisky distilleries of GB and Ireland. He then went on to tour 110 breweries (1889-91) and published a four-volume book on breweries.
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One for @TheBeerFather
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Replying to @davidquain
Such a sad loss. His history of the @IBDHQ is an absolutely brilliant book and anyone interested in the history of British brewing should read it.
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Sad to see that Dr Ray Anderson has died. A lovely chap who worked at BRI in the 70s and then Allied Breweries in Burton. Worked on esters and sulphur compounds in beer + great papers on brewing history - doi.org/10.1002/j.2050-0416.… -and a leading light in breweryhistory.com/

THE PATTERN OF BREWING RESEARCH: A PERSONAL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF BREWING CHEMISTRY IN THE BRITISH...

In covering the 160 years since the first appointment of a trained chemist to a brewery in Britain, a broad outline of the history of brewing chemistry is hung upon the framework of Irish contribut...

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In fifty-odd years of life, I've done a lot of things, only recently focused squarely on beer. Yet in those decades, from adolescence to a moment in the bowels of Greene King, no matter what I've done, beer has never been far out of frame. beervanablog.com/beervana/20…
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I've just discovered that Amber Patrick, whose book I mentioned earlier in the day, will be doing a short talk in Thetford, on 11th June, looking at East Anglian Malthouses. Just got my ticket - £5 🙂 artfund.org/explore/events/2…
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The latest issue of Brewery History is now out. Includes a free to access review of 'Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire' by M.F. Purinton bit.ly/4238pXZ
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