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A traditional oast at Frittenden, Kent. An oast, oast house (or oasthouse) or hop kiln is a building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process. Oast houses can be found in most hop-growing (and former hop-growing) areas, and are often good examples of agricultural vernacular architecture.
A 16th-century brewery Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, at home by a homebrewer, or communally. Brewing has taken place since around the 6th millennium BC, and archaeological evidence ...
A second edition (ISBN 978-0550105646), edited by Ian Crofton and John Ayto, was published on 30 November 2010. [4] While this title is based on the structure of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, it contains entries from 1900 onwards and exists alongside its parent volume as a separate work. [5]
Brewer 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 Adnams, Southwold: Adnams Whitbread, London Whitbread Interbrew: Flowers, Stratford: Flower & Sons " JW Green, Luton: JW Green (Brewmaster) " Cheltenham, Cheltenham: Cheltenham Cheltenham & Hereford Breweries: WCB" Tredegar, Tredegar: Tredegar Hereford & Tredegar Brewery ...
The largest remaining Australian owned brewer is Coopers Brewery [2] with a market share of about 4% of total beer volume sales in Australia. [3] The two foreign-owned companies accounted for 89% of beer volume sales in 2011, with CUB's market share at 48% (declining from a 55% market share in 2006) [4] and Lion at 41% (increasing from 37%). [5]
Modern brewers also sometimes make use of American or Continental hops. South-east England, particularly Kent, is the traditional hop growing area; brewers in the north and west used to economise on the cost of importing hops by producing beers with more of a malt character, a regional distinction that has not entirely vanished.
Stratford-upon-Avon (/ ... ˈ eɪ v ən /... AY-vən), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, [2] in the West Midlands region of England.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...