It is always educational to drink good beer. Yesterday I dropped by at Ølbaren on Elmegade to taste a quadruppel and Wintercoats Oatmeal stout. Great beers, both of them. While enjoying my drink, I happened to get to talk with my neighbours, and one of them told that Bogbørsen on Studiestraede has just received a truckload of beer books, seemingly the brewery schools library has been closed down, or something.
I had a look, and they do indeed have a meter or two of beer material in the shop, and the shopkeeper kept bringing interesting items from the back room. Said he hasn't sorted them all out yet, and asked me to come back some day to find more. Most of the stuff seemed to be in German, with a good portion in Swedish, English, and other languages. Some less interesting works also in Danish. I came home with "Practical Brewing" by W.H.Nithdale and A.J.Manton (London, 3rd ed. 1947). Only because it has Appendix III: Royal Commission on Arsenical Poisoning. I haven't studied it yet, so I can not say what the connection is, but it sounds like there ought to be a good story in this... Paid 150,- for it. Would have bought some more stuff, but didn't have more cash on me, and plastics were not acceptable there. There were several volumes of "Communications from (Wallen/Walten/??? - bergs/burghs/steins/???) Laboratories, seemingly a quarterly newsletter that had been bound into yearly volumes. The ones I saw were from the 50's. Interesting looking articles, for example on the use of antibiotics for preventing bacterial spoilage of beer... -H -- Heikki Levanto LSD - Levanto Software Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
