March 2005
Beer Blog Mania Expands
Posted by on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 in - leave a comment
Here is one with a good name - Pfiff! Well written with a tendency towards Belgians.
Beer And Politics in Asia
Posted by on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 in - 4 comments
Three reporters based in China and I am the guy posting this story on the use of beer revenues to support the questionable content in Japanese schoolbooks: • “The news released by media report about Japan's new history textbook compilation committee, which is financially supported by Asahi Beer …
Posted by on Tuesday, March 29, 2005
New York: Saranac IPA, Matts Brewing, Utica
Posted by on Monday, March 28, 2005 in - 17 comments
I was asked the other day what I thought of Saranac beer by the Matt Brewing Company of Utica New York, a small regional or big micro which has survived a number of cats lives. When I pop over the river and go shopping in the USA, I am stunned that shopkeepers know nothing of Middle Ages brewing …
Separation of Church and Beer
Posted by on Monday, March 28, 2005 in - leave a comment
Here is a odd bit of local bureaucracy from Portland Tennessee: • “This action would require an ordinance change involving two readings and a public hearing. At issue is whether the beverage board acted illegally when they granted a permit to D & B Enterprises, a new market located on College …
Quick Note: Mort Subite Framboise
Posted by on Thursday, March 24, 2005 in - 2 comments
Lambic. Natural yeasted wheat ales from Belgium left to go thin and sour. Sounds foul but it is like drinking fresh wine the small champagne corked bottles of usually fruit brewed ale. Fruit brewed as the freshness of the harvest is added to the fermentation in the best of these real ales not as …
Beer Bloggers Meetup in China
Posted by on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 in - 5 comments
I liberated the Unabrewer from the hotel he was stuck at near Shanghai's Pudong International Airport on Sunday night. Together we checked out two of the better reviewed brewpubs in Shanghai: the • Shanghai Bund Brewage Co (SBBC) and Le Bar/Brauhaus. • The SBBC is located on 11 Hankou Rd …
Ale Shopping in Cambridge, Mass.
Posted by on Monday, March 21, 2005 in - 6 comments
This is a bit of a work in progress, having put a few feelers out there on the network of ale fans. I will be there in the next couple of weeks and would like to bring home a couple of months worth of good...postings. Yea, that's it. Good postings for you the reader. The best candidates so far …
A Good Beer Job
Posted by on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 1 comment
Rogue is offering a job which would be pretty attractive to me half a life ago: • “Job Posting, March 11: Sales Assistant, Portland, OR. Responsibilities include reporting, tracking, phoning, follow-up, filing, typing, answering phones, coordinating, ordering, shipping, mailing, filling forms …
Posted by on Sunday, March 20, 2005
Thoughts on Binging
Posted by on Friday, March 18, 2005 in - 5 comments
I went on a binge last night. Or at least I may have. • It was St. Pat's so I decided to check out the local Irish Pubs, the Blarney Stone and O'Malley's. Both were good, but the former was better by a long shot. More authentic, smaller, cozier and the barman threw in a free shot of Jagermeister …
National Six-Pack XI: 10W30 Dark Ale, Neustadt, Ontario
Posted by on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 in - 17 comments
The trouble with Ontario is really expressed in its beer distribution system: it is too big. Half the nation lives here, half the office space and half the bears as well. It goes from the arctic to the Carolinian forest, from the western prairie to a few miles from Montreal. The effect on beer …
Posted by on Tuesday, March 15, 2005
1516 Law of Purity
Posted by on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 6 comments
In 1516, the Reinheitsgebot or Law of Purity was decreed in Germany. It is apparently the oldest still-active piece of food health legislation. • “"... we wish to emphasize that in future in all cities, markets and in the country, the only ingredients used for the brewing of beer must be Barley …
New York's Oldest Bars
Posted by on Saturday, March 12, 2005 in - leave a comment
I am a huge fan of the not blog Forgotten New York and its regular and comprehensive investigations of some aspect or another of New York's architectural heritage. This week we have a study on some of the oldest bars in New York City.
Beer is Bigger Than...
Posted by on Friday, March 11, 2005 in - leave a comment
In Canada at least, beer with sales of $7,864,437,000.00 in 2003 is bigger than: • Total attendance at movie theatres and drive-ins with sales of $1.2 billion in 2002/03: 15.3% of beer. • All wheat at $2.47 billion: 31.5% of beer. • The estimated budget of the Government of Nova Scotia for …
Posted by on Friday, March 11, 2005
National Six-Pack X: Sgt. Major's IPA, Scotch Irish, Ontario
Posted by on Thursday, March 10, 2005 in - 3 comments
Finally the wee truck from Fitzroy Harbour up on the Ottawa River near Arnprior made its way down to Kingston giving us a taste of this excellent local ale. This is a hoppy beer that reminds me a lot of my recollection of the Dragon's Breath Ale contract brewed and bottled by the old Hart Brewery …
New York: 46'er Pale Ale, Lake Placid Craft Brewing, Plattsburg
Posted by on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 in - 1 comment
I bought at six of this beer in Hannaford's grocery store in Watertown, New York for $7.99. Customsman let it go. Declared but he no cared. • It would be sweeter for that bonus but could it be? I really like this brew. Medium body. Lots of green hops almost to the point there is a green pea … read more »
Beer: not fattening?
Posted by on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 in - 16 comments
This article from the BBC asks the question "Is beer less fattening than wine?" It provides evidence that beer is, in fact, not as fattening as we have been lead to believe -- that it is less fattening than wine and far less fattening than spirits. It claims the beer bellies that abound in the …
The Blue Tusk, Syracuse, New York
Posted by on Sunday, March 6, 2005 in - 1 comment
The last of what Lew Bryson has called "the triumvirate" of Syracuse's temples to ale, the Blue Tusk, was my favorite for the mood of the day. Much Middle Ages on tap as well as Stone and Victory and even Blue Lite for who knows why. Loud and chatty, we walked in and immediately got into a two and …
Barley Wine Names
Posted by on Saturday, March 5, 2005 in - 4 comments
I am on some email listings about beer and received this message today about an event in Seattle, USA, which reminded me of the beauty that is the west coast USA practice of naming these strong ales: • “Barleywine anyone? The Beveridge Place Pub is having their 3rd annual Barleywine Bacchanal …
Bad Beer, Baaad Beer
Posted by on Saturday, March 5, 2005 in - 4 comments
Have a look at this article in the on-line version of UK paper The Independent about a sex crime crack-down in Russia. This is the headline: Kremlin acts to stem tide of porn, beer and thong ads. The article, however, is really about the movement to address sexual morality in Moscow. Beer is … read more »
Beijing's Strange Brews
Posted by on Saturday, March 5, 2005 in - 6 comments
The third part of the Singapore Beer Bar trilogy will be coming soon. Brewerkz will not be neglected, but I really need to get a new flat with reliable out-of-office Internet access before I finish the • item. I'm still a bit busy with the move to China and with the new job. The annual … read more »
The Perfect Diet?
Posted by on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 in - leave a comment
OK, maybe only if you are a castaway... • “Search and rescue teams this morning found a North Fort Myers man who was reported missing several days after he set off on a rowboat trip, with little more than a case of beer to sustain him...Kimball told Punta Gorda police that he left Saturday …
New York: Awful Al's Whiskey and Cigar Bar, Syracuse
Posted by on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 in - leave a comment
Never was a beer from Stone so appropriate... • We only stopped in Awful Al's briefly when walking between Clark's and the Blue Tusk. Two reasons. I was told to stop taking photos and it is a reminder of how great the anti-smoking laws are for the consumption of fine beers. It is, however, the …
