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A History of Beer and Brewing
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A History of Beer and Brewing
By
Ian S Hornsey
Ian S Hornsey
Nethergate Brewery, UK
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1039/9781847550026
Paperback ISBN-10:
0-85404-630-5
Paperback ISBN:
978-0-85404-630-0
PDF ISBN:
978-1-84755-002-6
Product Type: Popular Science
No. of Pages:
760
Publication date:
22 Dec 2003
Book Chapter

Some beer styles and some breweries

Doi:
https://doi.org/10.1039/9781847550026-00485
Page range:
485 - 567

A beer drinker in the 1970s could have been forgiven for thinking that there were only about half a dozen styles of beer brewed in Great Britain, one of which was akin to a continental lager. There was a “bitter”, a “mild” (if you were lucky), a “premium bitter” at about 5% alcohol, a ubiquitous “stout” and that was about it, apart from a few regional specialities. All that changed after the formation of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), whose main aim was to save the remnants of British brewing heritage.

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