Ale Brewing
Tidbits of a life. All tidbits. I don't know if I will get anything but
tidbits if I don't get myself to Albany to look up more stuff. Sounds
glum? Not really. This is a long puzzle. I would like to figure out why
the ads in the far off places the barrels get shipped do not mention the
maker of the beer. One would presume Taylor, being the biggest of the
brewers mid-century, would have most of the export trade. We probably
could guess at a recipe but it would be good to have a brewing log
rather than this sort of guestimate.
But most of all I would like to figure out a better way to express the
data, a timeline with clickable links on it and multi-coloured bands
showing connections in family and business. Pie charts. All with a map
overlay showing the barrels moving south down the Hudson and then west
via the Erie Canal. And the names of the ships that carried it.
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