Beer Historians Thread

"As he looked down from his perch, the clerk suddenly noticed that a 700-pound hoop had slipped off an enormous cask that stored a 10-month-old batch of porter." "The compromised vat, which held the equivalent of 1 million pints of beer, had burst into splinters."

Great read, the London beer flood.

 

Propagandists, eh?

 

No, it's the site of one man: Horst Dornbusch, charlatan.

 

Was at a whole weekend of beer history at Colonial Williamsburg last week. So cool.. Everyone who's anyone in beer history was there.

 

I'll be sure to steer clear.

 

Ron, is their a photograph of y'all wearing tri-corner hats? If so, can you post it!?!

Cheers!

 

Renowned physicist Neils Bohr had a close relationship with Carlsberg, literally. From the article below "...after he won the Nobel Prize in 1922, the Carlsberg brewery gave him a gift – a house located next to the brewery. And the best perk of the house? It had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that Bohr hadfree beer on tap whenever he wanted."

More here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkna...bohr-got-a-house-with-free-beer/#35749dd04fb7

 

Do I detect a faint hint of criticism?

 

Let’s just say the Oxford Companion to Beer would have been a far better book if all Dornbusch’s contributions had been left as blank white space.

 

Yes. a chapter of unprofessional unresearched crap undermined the whole book.