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Golden ales were a thing in 1888, so probably date back to at least Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 :

Well at a company scale, >90% of Lallemand's yeast production is bread yeast, the brewing market is just gravy for them. Bakers are a much nicer market in some ways as they can't repitch, but slimmer margins. I don't know what their split is within brewing, but I think you'd be surprised how...

I wonder if they're doing that for contamination reasons? It would be easier from their POV if everyone bought Farmhouse instead. But yeah, M29.

There's no great dried English yeasts - a lot of the good ones don't like being dried, and the drying process tends to stress them so that they don't produce the esters that you want in a classic English pint. The cheapest option is to use the actual Fuller's yeast, by harvesting it out of a...

They can see on the till how much has been added to the raw bill, and generally they will have a personal login to the system so if tips are "tracked" per person, then it's easy to assign a tip to the person who rang in the bill. But most restaurants tend to operate some kind of communal "tronc"...

The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act comes into force on 1 July this year. The Ping Pong dimsum chain was one. OTOH, the minimum wage has increased dramatically in recent years, something like 60% above inflation compared to when it first came in, so at £11.44/hour it's not like we're in...

If you've ever watched the Hunted TV show, they quite often prefer to use car telematics over phones - there can be uncertainty over who's using a phone, and potentially quite a bit of time-consuming analysis to identify a burner etc, whereas if they catch someone on CCTV getting into a...

All the American POS systems like Square are very geared to their tipping culture, so ask to add a tip by default, European systems handle it in different ways. But there's usually a tip jar on the bar to do cash....

https://essentiallyhops.co.uk/product/hops/grow-your-own-hops/redsells-eastwell/ Redsell's Eastwell is a Golding selection made at Tony Redsell’s (a local grower) farm in 1988 when Wye College was trying to find viroid free stock of all varieties. Eastwell is one of the classic Golding clones...

Although being broken into is a thing, a bigger thing is the losses from min wage staff trousering some of the takings. And it's not so much the bank charges, just all the hassle of handling cash - just counting it is a boring, time consuming task, but needs to be done by someone you can trust...

I can tell you exactly what happens - it doesn't make much odds. In general the card readers and tablets that run the tills are charged overnight, so should have enough battery to at least last a session. A lot of card readers talk directly to the mobile phone network so aren't dependent on...

The customer is wrong - the whole legal tender thing has a narrow meaning in the context of repaying debts, it's nothing to do with what happens in shops where a shop can choose whatever it wants to accept - cash only, card only, or peppercorns only...

Says IPO is "not on the immediate horizon", standing down because the job is now about management rather than building a business. Which is fair enough, although in his case you can't help feeling there's an element of yearning for the good old days of harassing the barmaids without getting...

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The small ones tend not to, I'd agree - but it's usually easy enough to get them to add a sack of uncrushed to their next order. The other thing like that is that in the current environment, many don't pony up for Otter but stock standard pale malt instead.