Clive La Pensée – Beer, Blogs and Literature

Let me take you through the history of brewing.

On the way you can –

• Become DTP proficient and create unique and beautiful labels for your beer.
• Get into beer-collectables.
• Garner beer wisdom.
• Write beer blogs. and make friends across the brewing community.
• Brew awesome gyles, know how to delight friends and above all, what to give for Christmas.

Clive La Pensée’s beer pages

Join an authority on brewing historical beers.

• It was 1980 and no one had published a meaningful beer book in decades.
• I wrote the one that redefined craft brewing. I formed the first ever Indie Publisher (Montag Publications) and published the first edition in 1990.
• Described as among the best 10 books on beer, ever written.
• Fully updated last year, now in litres, Imperial and US gallons, Celsius and Fahrenheit.
• Brews from the middle ages to late 19th century.
• How to make the malt to make the genuine article – full instructions.
• Ready for your iPad, tablet, Kindle Fire and iPhone/Android.

• Make your own macro-brewery on historical principles.
• Plant and harvest from your own hop garden. Full drying instructions.
• Propagate your house-brewery yeast strain and achieve uniqueness.
• Goethe would have had a copy, if I had written it in time.
• Drop me a line under <contact> and PayPal clivelap@gmx.com £5 for a signed copy. Please add £2.50 for overseas postage.

Goethe had his own hop garden.

Pale Ales – the greatest Ales ever brewed.

• Full instructions on how these amazing beers were brewed.
• Keep them a year and enjoy a spectrum of flavours, akin to a dry white wine.
• Achieve the wow-effect of your lifetime, when you give these to friends.

Porter and Stout. The beers everyone talks and sings about, but no one brews!

• Porter – that hidden treasure of 18th and 19th century England.
• This is the only book to tell you how to do it properly.
• Strong, very bitter and very dark!
• Awesome Ales, accurately described from original sources.

Build your own house brewery.

We can imitate history, using plastic and stainless steel, to recreate a gravity fed brewery.

And above all – no more soggy pages.

Brew, build, garden, a complete hobby, all with your iPad, tablet, Kindle Fire, or phone.