A site where a man with far too much interest in beer gets to write about it. Saturday, 24 March 2018. A visit to gin lane. Yesterday had a rare departure from Beer Street and Visited Gin Lane. Copper is important in distillation as it removes sulphur character. For the vodka they make. Orris root is said to act as a fixative for flavours and is hig.

Diary of Events Leading Up to the War. Domestic Diaries and Morocco Diaries. Church bells rung this morning in celebration of the victory in Egypt.

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I think the dirtiest interiors I see, more than any of the various kinds of squalor the piles of unwashed crocks, the scraps of miscellaneous food all over the lino-topped table, the dreadful rag mats with the crumbs of years trodden into them the things that oppress me most are the scraps of newspaper that are scattered all over the floor.