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Gary Gillman @beeretseq

Retired lawyer. Writes mainly on beer, also other drinks and food at beeretseq.com. 🇨🇦 🇮🇱 . Focus is both historical and current developments.

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Gary Gillman@beeretseq
8 Apr 2024
In 2021 I prepared an Index to my writing, hence to that time, on porter and stout. See e.g., section no. 2 which references writing in 2015 where I advance a new theory on the origin of porter's name, relating to London textile and weaving terminology. beeretseq.com/index-to-gary-…

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In further new writing I discuss two forms of warmed and spiced porter or stout not previously noted (that I could tell) in modern beer studies. These are fettled porter and pickled porter. Fettled. And pickled. beeretseq.com/fettled-and-pi…
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For the third part of my look at American food writer, editor, and nutritionist Pearl Metzelthin, I discuss an article she wrote describing her work with American Airlines to design an in-flight hot meal service. beeretseq.com/pearl-metzelth…
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This is Part II of my look at Pearl Metzelthin, who wrote, edited, and consulted on food, diet, and nutrition mainly between the two world wars. We learn more of her background and achievements. (Edited and corrected version). beeretseq.com/pearl-metzelth…
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Pearl Metzelthin, co-founder and an early editor of Gourmet magazine, included a vivid taste note on Berlin wheat beer in her 1939 book on world cuisines. beeretseq.com/pearl-metzelth…
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With unusual skill an Australian journalist described a vast range of drinks available in a city-centre bar, in 1931. beeretseq.com/salad-days-of-…
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The last part of my look at the cocktail Pink Gin cites how the Angostura firm viewed the drink in 1935. Plus we hear from a famous Canadian journalist. beeretseq.com/when-gin-is-pr…
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In the fourth installment of our current series on Pink Gin, the cocktail appears as a cultural symbol of the Anglophone enclaves in interwar China. beeretseq.com/when-gin-is-pr…
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Part III is now published, of my series on Pink Gin history. I focus on gin with bitters in the colonial Far East, especially the Dutch East Indies. beeretseq.com/when-gin-is-pr…
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My new posting at Beer et seq surveys phases of Pink Gin (the cocktail) history in Britain, Canada and the U.S. It raises as well a novel, possibly alternate reason for the word pink in the name. See also my comment posted today about gin and orange bitters and david Embury.
Gary Gillman@beeretseq
21 Nov 2025
New writing at the Beer et seq website, "When gin is Pretty in Pink". We explore in a long read the cocktail Pink Gin, and offer a new idea how pink got in the name. beeretseq.com/when-gin-is-pr…
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Here is the second part of my look at Pink Gin history, with images from my tasting of four pink gins. beeretseq.com/when-gin-is-pr…
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New writing at the Beer et seq website, "When gin is Pretty in Pink". We explore in a long read the cocktail Pink Gin, and offer a new idea how pink got in the name. beeretseq.com/when-gin-is-pr…
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Gary Gillman@beeretseq
12 Nov 2025
How Canadian beer changed after about 1955 - from the horses' mouths. New writing at the Beer et seq site. beeretseq.com/canadian-beers…
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The final Part of my series on a Canadian brewer's experience using malted rice in the mid-20th century: beeretseq.com/canadas-malt-r…
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Gary Gillman@beeretseq
7 Nov 2025
The final Part now of my series on a Canadian brewer's experience using malted rice in the mid-20th century: beeretseq.com/canadas-malt-r… Note: for some intervening Parts the term “all-rice malt” crept in the title, a typo now mended. Series title is “Canada’s Rice Malt Brewing”.

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Gary Gillman@beeretseq
7 Nov 2025
Next part now of my discussion of malted rice procedures at a Canadian brewery in 1938. We move on to steeping, germinating and drying the California paddy rice, special milling and more. beeretseq.com/canadas-all-ma…
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Two new parts in my ongoing series on mid-20th century use of malted rice in Canadian brewing. 1. beeretseq.com/canadas-malt-r… 2. beeretseq.com/canadas-all-ma…
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