" ... I'm very in touch with the pub scene in the UK, and routinely I see posts about £7.50 ($9.75) pints of Peroni, and conversely £1.99 ($2.50) 20 oz pints of Cask Ale in Wetherspoon pubs ... " The post Session 146: (Announcement) Where do you find value? appeared first on Ding's Beer Blog .
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We revived The Session for a one-off event to celebrate the work of the late Martyn Cornell, asking people to write something in response to his final book Porter & Stout. We were encouraged in this by Alan ‘A Good Beer Blog’ McLeod whose. We don’t ‘own’ The Session, and neither does he, but we […] Session #150 round-up: thoughts on stout and porter from around the world originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog
It is difficult to write about Martyn Cornell’s last book, Porter and Stout: A Complete History without being caught up by the sad fact of his passing a little over a year ago now. As many had written after the news of his passing circulated, he seemed always able to be available at the other end … Continue reading "Session #150: Martyn Cornell – Porter And Stout"
Porter is a dark beer, right? Pretty much black. Well, that was not always the case, as the late Martyn Cornell explains in his 2025 book Porter & Stout. He describes 18th century London porter as “mid-brown or deep chestnut in colour at most” and, on the same page, quotes a contemporary source which refers […] Session number 150: When porter was… amber? originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog
