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Editor of BeerCorp.

lordtime edits BeerCorp and writes its style guides, brewery profiles, stories and histories. The facts come from the BJCP and Brewers Association style guidelines, the breweries’ own records, national encyclopedias and the trade press, and the style pages, stories and histories list the sources they were checked against.

Articles

History
The Reinheitsgebot: Bavaria's beer law of 1516
The Reinheitsgebot: Duke Wilhelm IV's 1516 decree that beer be brewed from barley, hops and water, its two versions today, and why a 1918 politician gave it its name.
Oct 29, 20262 min read
History
Trappist beer: what the hexagon on the label means
Trappist beer: the three rules behind the Authentic Trappist Product label, the ten abbeys that brew it, and how it differs from abbey beer.
Oct 29, 20263 min read
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.
Oct 29, 20262 min read
Stories
The 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.
Oct 29, 20263 min read
Stories
Lambic: 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.
Oct 29, 20263 min read