Thanks for including the Goad map—that’s a very inefficiently set up brewery from the perspective of having to move ingredients and work in process around, but they were likely more worried about supplying steam power to mill.

For lagers, sure; for ales, hold the phone.

Thank you! Your antique shop find wound up having a lot of backstory. Are half pint tankard common? I’ve never run into one on the antique trail.

Sporty coiff, ma'am.

Props for Sir Alec!

1812-17ish, Yorkshire mill owners had the striking Luddites shot at, executed, or sent to Australia. Corporate pushback to the 1894 Pullman strike was eerily similar. (Also— a lot of doctors on Bluesky eschew honorific titles.)

Folks have been using the term “late stage capitalism” since rhs 1920s (used to describe why German labor and capital both supported WWI). Capitalism is an economic theory. There’s no lifespan to it. It doesn’t expire unless something else knocks it out.

Worse than that—the VP selection process is going to play out all summer in weekly tv installments, a la “The Batchelor”.

Could easily be New York Guinness--E. & J. Burke (Guinness' USA outpost), used green bottles frequently. Here's a link, it's tough to follow the linkage between the two businesses. www.irishecho.com/2019/9/the-b...

The great unified forces of the internet have spoken, and this is what you’re destined to spend the rest of your life blogging about (sorry if this isn’t something you’re really into).