2023, Vol. 23

Contents

5) Lagering of beer: art, science, myth?
Jim Murray discusses the gap between industrial and traditional lager brewing

18) Tennent’s beers 1830-31
Edd Mather digs in the archives

24) Brewery water wells
Bill Williamson and John Martin look at brewery water resources

30) Margaret Greville
Eleanor Docherty follows the life of William McEwan’s daughter

52) End of an era
John Martin says farewell to the Caledonian Brewery

58) Memories of Scottish & Newcastle
Alastair M Carmichael recalls his career

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