Stories
The 9,000-year lease: how Arthur Guinness built a brewery on porter
The Guinness story: a £45 lease signed in 1759, the switch from ale to porter in 1799, the harp label of 1862 and the nitrogen pint of 1959.
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The people
StoriesThe IPA myths: who really sent pale ale to India
India pale ale history: the beer nobody called IPA for 50 years, why George Hodgson did not invent it, and how a six-month voyage ripened it.
StoriesLambic: the beer Brussels leaves to the air
Lambic: how brewers around Brussels let wild microbes ferment their beer, how blenders make gueuze, and the fight that won 'Oude Geuze' EU protection in 1997.