NigelSadler
@nigelsadler.bsky.social
Beer & Brewing Industry Professional. Science fan. Fairweather star gazer. Astrophotography beginner 🔭 Likes cats 🐈⬛🐱 and old Alfa Romeos 🙄.
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NigelSadler
@nigelsadler.bsky.social
· Jan 2
My grand finale tonight. An image I've dreamed of capturing ever since being a young boy in the 1960s. The iconic Horsehead Nebula. It's taken 4 months since buying the SeestarS50 for the time, location and seeing conditions to be right.
Very happy with this. 😊🎉🔭
Very happy with this. 😊🎉🔭
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The advantages of canned beer (according to a letter to Heineken in 1936):
1. handier package
2. lighter
3. no deposit
4. no dirty bottles to clean
5. easy to take on journeys
1. handier package
2. lighter
3. no deposit
4. no dirty bottles to clean
5. easy to take on journeys
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The advantages of canned beer (according to a letter to Heineken in 1936):
1. handier package
2. lighter
3. no deposit
4. no dirty bottles to clean
5. easy to take on journeys
1. handier package
2. lighter
3. no deposit
4. no dirty bottles to clean
5. easy to take on journeys
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The Thornbridge/Theakston, bottle-conditioned, 'from the Union' take on Masham Ale is a joy. Traditional English strong* ale at its best.
* 6.5%, for readers from other countries.
* 6.5%, for readers from other countries.
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Thornbridge/Theakston, bottle-conditioned, 'from the Union' take on Masham Ale is a joy. Traditional English strong* ale at its best.
* 6.5%, for readers from other countries.
* 6.5%, for readers from other countries.
Beer O'Clock on a wet miserable day here in Essex. Something special then to brighten my mood 😊 This Fullers Brewery 180th Anniversary bottle conditioned Porter at 7%ABV fits the bill and is excellent 👌
Raising a glass to His Majesty the King, Hoppy Birthday Charlie 🍻
Raising a glass to His Majesty the King, Hoppy Birthday Charlie 🍻
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Beer O'Clock on a wet miserable day here in Essex. Something special then to brighten my mood 😊 This Fullers Brewery 180th Anniversary bottle conditioned Porter at 7%ABV fits the bill and is excellent 👌
Raising a glass to His Majesty the King, Hoppy Birthday Charlie 🍻
Raising a glass to His Majesty the King, Hoppy Birthday Charlie 🍻
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Best in Beer 2025 issue drop! This is kinda like our Christmas. Go dive in over at beerandbrewing.com.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Best in Beer 2025 issue drop! This is kinda like our Christmas. Go dive in over at beerandbrewing.com.
Lots of chit chat about lowering ABV in beer vs Quality. First of all understand what alcohol adds to drink: Enhances flavour and character; complexity. Sweetness. Warmth. Body. Define quality: Not as easy as people think. Who judges quality? Consumer? Brewer? What is quality?
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Lots of chit chat about lowering ABV in beer vs Quality. First of all understand what alcohol adds to drink: Enhances flavour and character; complexity. Sweetness. Warmth. Body. Define quality: Not as easy as people think. Who judges quality? Consumer? Brewer? What is quality?
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Brewers! I'm looking for Christmas beers that are nationally available through the supermarkets this year. Please DM me if you have something that fits the bill.
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Brewers! I'm looking for Christmas beers that are nationally available through the supermarkets this year. Please DM me if you have something that fits the bill.
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📣 members, book your place onto our next free online training session: www.beerguild.co.uk/guild-events...
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📣 members, book your place onto our next free online training session: www.beerguild.co.uk/guild-events...
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On Monday, our Managing and Training Director, Phil, delivered Bespoke Dispense Quality Training for Hadrian Border for their pub, Station East.🍻
#BreweryTraining #BeerTraining #PubTraining #StaffTraining
#BreweryTraining #BeerTraining #PubTraining #StaffTraining
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
On Monday, our Managing and Training Director, Phil, delivered Bespoke Dispense Quality Training for Hadrian Border for their pub, Station East.🍻
#BreweryTraining #BeerTraining #PubTraining #StaffTraining
#BreweryTraining #BeerTraining #PubTraining #StaffTraining
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🎄 Looking for a unique gift or a fun day out?
Join our Beer Tasting & Cheese Pairing with Brewlab’s Master Brewer! 🍺🧀
5 beers, cheese pairings & expert insights.
📅 Nov 21 | Dec 12 | Feb 13 | Mar 13
🎟 Book now: https://brewlab.co.uk/product/beer-tasting-and-cheese-pairing-experience/
Join our Beer Tasting & Cheese Pairing with Brewlab’s Master Brewer! 🍺🧀
5 beers, cheese pairings & expert insights.
📅 Nov 21 | Dec 12 | Feb 13 | Mar 13
🎟 Book now: https://brewlab.co.uk/product/beer-tasting-and-cheese-pairing-experience/
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🎄 Looking for a unique gift or a fun day out?
Join our Beer Tasting & Cheese Pairing with Brewlab’s Master Brewer! 🍺🧀
5 beers, cheese pairings & expert insights.
📅 Nov 21 | Dec 12 | Feb 13 | Mar 13
🎟 Book now: https://brewlab.co.uk/product/beer-tasting-and-cheese-pairing-experience/
Join our Beer Tasting & Cheese Pairing with Brewlab’s Master Brewer! 🍺🧀
5 beers, cheese pairings & expert insights.
📅 Nov 21 | Dec 12 | Feb 13 | Mar 13
🎟 Book now: https://brewlab.co.uk/product/beer-tasting-and-cheese-pairing-experience/
Good to visit the new Spoons in Basildon, Essex today. Very impressive I have to say. Separate area for pouring the drinks for table service with dedicated staff for just that, speeds things up greatly. Top notch cellar with triple level stillage for the Cask ales. I can see this as JDW's future. 🍻
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Good to visit the new Spoons in Basildon, Essex today. Very impressive I have to say. Separate area for pouring the drinks for table service with dedicated staff for just that, speeds things up greatly. Top notch cellar with triple level stillage for the Cask ales. I can see this as JDW's future. 🍻
Morning, another fine day for Cask Marque duties. Heading to Grays, Thurrock and Basildon.
And The Ale House, Chelmsford has announced dates for its Xmas Beer Festival 🙂🍻
And The Ale House, Chelmsford has announced dates for its Xmas Beer Festival 🙂🍻
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Morning, another fine day for Cask Marque duties. Heading to Grays, Thurrock and Basildon.
And The Ale House, Chelmsford has announced dates for its Xmas Beer Festival 🙂🍻
And The Ale House, Chelmsford has announced dates for its Xmas Beer Festival 🙂🍻
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Guinness has officially released the first batch of highly anticipated tickets for its Open Gate Brewery London today beertoday.co.uk/2025/11/12/g... #brewery #brewerynews #brewerytour
Book now for Guinness Open Gate brewery tours - Beer Today
Guinness has officially released the first batch of highly anticipated tickets for its Open Gate Brewery London today
beertoday.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Guinness has officially released the first batch of highly anticipated tickets for its Open Gate Brewery London today beertoday.co.uk/2025/11/12/g... #brewery #brewerynews #brewerytour
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From Bine to Glass: A behind-the-scenes look at the 2025 hop harvest, following fresh green hops from Hukins Hops in Kent to breweries like Five Points and Beak as they brew with them within hours of picking. www.seanislegend.com/green-hop-beer
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
From Bine to Glass: A behind-the-scenes look at the 2025 hop harvest, following fresh green hops from Hukins Hops in Kent to breweries like Five Points and Beak as they brew with them within hours of picking. www.seanislegend.com/green-hop-beer
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Poppies are a symbol of remembrance on Armistice Day. Did you know that some poppies are also the source of powerful opioid painkillers?
Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...
#ChemSky 🧪
Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...
#ChemSky 🧪
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Poppies are a symbol of remembrance on Armistice Day. Did you know that some poppies are also the source of powerful opioid painkillers?
Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...
#ChemSky 🧪
Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...
#ChemSky 🧪
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Good work by @boakandbailey.bsky.social on a forgotten beer style - rustic ale: boakandbailey.com/2025/11/mann...
Mann’s Rustic Ale and ideas of authenticity in beer
London brewer Mann’s, best known for its brown ale, also had a product called ‘Rustic Ale’. What meaning were those two words supposed to convey?
boakandbailey.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Good work by @boakandbailey.bsky.social on a forgotten beer style - rustic ale: boakandbailey.com/2025/11/mann...
Remembrance Day Beer O'Clock. Raising a glass to the fallen and my great grandfather, Albert Vigor, fought and wounded at Ypres in 1915.
My first taste of Fuller's 2025 Vintage Ale. A rich malty and fruitcake background with nice citrus/fruit notes on the nose. Very enjoyable. Cheers 🍻
My first taste of Fuller's 2025 Vintage Ale. A rich malty and fruitcake background with nice citrus/fruit notes on the nose. Very enjoyable. Cheers 🍻
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Remembrance Day Beer O'Clock. Raising a glass to the fallen and my great grandfather, Albert Vigor, fought and wounded at Ypres in 1915.
My first taste of Fuller's 2025 Vintage Ale. A rich malty and fruitcake background with nice citrus/fruit notes on the nose. Very enjoyable. Cheers 🍻
My first taste of Fuller's 2025 Vintage Ale. A rich malty and fruitcake background with nice citrus/fruit notes on the nose. Very enjoyable. Cheers 🍻
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Hydes is stepping up its investment in apprenticeships across all areas of the business, encouraging employees of all ages and experience levels to take part in structured training beertoday.co.uk/2025/11/09/h... #brewery #pubs #apprenticeships
Apprenticeships are for all, says Hydes - Beer Today
Hydes is stepping up its investment in apprenticeships across all areas of the business, encouraging employees of all ages and experience levels to take part
beertoday.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Hydes is stepping up its investment in apprenticeships across all areas of the business, encouraging employees of all ages and experience levels to take part in structured training beertoday.co.uk/2025/11/09/h... #brewery #pubs #apprenticeships
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Some excellent Brugge recommendations here, for both food and beer:
UPDATED on the blog, my city guide to Bruges has been expanded with new venues and new commentary after my most recent visit. Hope you enjoy it! #Bruges
ediblereading.com/2024/04/05/c...
ediblereading.com/2024/04/05/c...
City guide: Bruges and Ghent (updated 2025)
The Bruges section of this guide has been further updated after two more visits to Bruges in January and October 2025 – I’ve added quite a few new venues, and removed one which has now …
ediblereading.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Some excellent Brugge recommendations here, for both food and beer:
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The wait is over! The shortlist for the British Guild of Beer Writers Awards is out now. Follow the link to see the full list and celebrate this year’s talented finalists! 🍻✨
www.beerguild.co.uk/2025-awards-...
www.beerguild.co.uk/2025-awards-...
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The wait is over! The shortlist for the British Guild of Beer Writers Awards is out now. Follow the link to see the full list and celebrate this year’s talented finalists! 🍻✨
www.beerguild.co.uk/2025-awards-...
www.beerguild.co.uk/2025-awards-...
I've been at the vets since 9.15 with poor Sid 🐈⬛. He's got a nasty abscess develop on his shoulder. Been in a fight 🙄
Hopefully all is now sorted, he's out of sedation and we're ready to go back home 🙂
Hopefully all is now sorted, he's out of sedation and we're ready to go back home 🙂
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I've been at the vets since 9.15 with poor Sid 🐈⬛. He's got a nasty abscess develop on his shoulder. Been in a fight 🙄
Hopefully all is now sorted, he's out of sedation and we're ready to go back home 🙂
Hopefully all is now sorted, he's out of sedation and we're ready to go back home 🙂
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The Cider Institute, the non-profit organisation advancing the science and craft of cider production, has announced the first UK offering of its flagship cidermaking course, Cider and Perry Production — A Foundation beertoday.co.uk/2025/11/06/c... #cider #cidernews #cidercourse
Cider Institute course is coming to the UK - Beer Today
The Cider Institute has announced the first UK offering of its flagship cidermaking course, Cider and Perry Production — A Foundation
beertoday.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The Cider Institute, the non-profit organisation advancing the science and craft of cider production, has announced the first UK offering of its flagship cidermaking course, Cider and Perry Production — A Foundation beertoday.co.uk/2025/11/06/c... #cider #cidernews #cidercourse
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Number of pubs stocking draught Bass passes 1,000 as AB Inbev's sales drive takes hold. So distribution has nearly trebled from a couple of years ago. Latest directory of stockists: nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Number of pubs stocking draught Bass passes 1,000 as AB Inbev's sales drive takes hold. So distribution has nearly trebled from a couple of years ago. Latest directory of stockists: nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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The new issue of #Yeast of 2025 (Volume 42, Issue 11, November 2025) is out! It includes papers about new yeast genomes, the biodiversity of yeasts in dough, polyphosphate accumulation and even a new #FantasticYeasts species 😃
You can browse it at this link:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...
You can browse it at this link:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...
Happy 40th birthday Yeast: Yeast: Vol 42, No 11
Yeast is a microbiology journal for research in the rapidly moving field of yeast biology. We publish the most significant developments in unicellular fungi.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The new issue of #Yeast of 2025 (Volume 42, Issue 11, November 2025) is out! It includes papers about new yeast genomes, the biodiversity of yeasts in dough, polyphosphate accumulation and even a new #FantasticYeasts species 😃
You can browse it at this link:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...
You can browse it at this link:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...
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Following on from @boakandbailey.bsky.social post some years ago about The Britannia, Brussels, 1958 here's a pub proposed for the Berlin Exhibition of 1966. But was it actually built?
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Following on from @boakandbailey.bsky.social post some years ago about The Britannia, Brussels, 1958 here's a pub proposed for the Berlin Exhibition of 1966. But was it actually built?