2025, Volume 25

Contents

5) Professor Emeritus Sir Godfrey (Geoff) Palmer KT OBE
John Martin remembers the pioneering professor

11) Home brewsters
Rachel Kulp writes on female homebrewers

15) The Old Engin Oil and Ola Dubh story
Stuart Cail describes the origin of Harviestoun’s strong stout

20) Jamies Aitken & Co (Falkirk) Ltd: a short history
Graham Malkiewicz tells the story of the family brewery

29) The Gothenburg pubs of Fife
John Reade looks at the rise & fall of reformed pubs

60) The earliest members of the Edinburgh Society of Brewers, 1596 – 1620
Beth Golden looks for traces of her ancestors

70) Fake or fortune?
Ivor Reid looks into a mysterious artefact with a forgotten trademark

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