November 2005
Quick Note: Striker Brown Ale, Cooperstown Brewing, NY
Posted by on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 in - leave a comment
I picked on of these up a few trips ago. We have visited Cooperstown Brewing Co. which is not in Cooperstown but at a very nice depot next to the operating tourist railway line in the slightly less baseball crazed neighbouring community of Milford. I have liked and not so liked their brews but …
Knut's Day Out In Cambridge
Posted by on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 in - 1 comment
With a large student and academic population, I figured out that this could be the goal of a day trip from London – focused on beer, but not exclusively so. So the plan was to catch a few pubs and sample a few rare beers as well as taking in the more famous sights. The ordeal of navigating the …
Big Hop Bombs: Hop Wallop Ale, Victory Brewing, PA, USA
Posted by on Monday, November 28, 2005 in - 2 comments
A quiet weekend around here as I was off in central New York state picking up some more beer to keep your insatiable appetite for my views on brews fed...or at least watered. Also quiet because I've been muttering under my breath about another digital camera that has died on me. For the short term …
Report From China
Posted by on Friday, November 25, 2005 in - leave a comment
Myrick the Asiapundit and one of our corrspondents from China has a post up about the role China's oldest brewer, Harbin Beer, is playing in the disaster in that city. Harbin's river and water supply has been contaminated with benzene but the brewery has deep wells and bottling facilities which …
Glittering Prizes Await!
Posted by on Thursday, November 24, 2005 in - leave a comment
Just a note on a vanity of mine... • Please vote for both this here A Good Beer Blog and our sister station Gen X at 40 at the Canadian Blog awards. I think both are up for best blog - which risks splitting the vote and letting the mighty Flea sneak through. We of the beery set are up for best …
24 Hour Public Drinking
Posted by on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 in - 9 comments
I really do not know about the move to 24 hour open all day and all of the night drinking in England. The BBC has a good article this morning on the debate: • “Shadow culture secretary Theresa May... said it was of "great concern" that a "significant number, if not a majority" of premises that …
New York: Middle Ages Brewing Co., Syracuse
Posted by on Monday, November 21, 2005 in - 6 comments
Thou mayest click on for greater illumination • I have to say that I have really enjoyed everything I have had by the Middle Ages Brewing Co. of Syracuse NY from trips to pubs and the odd beer I have brought back. But last time I was in a central New York beer shop I realized that there is more …
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Posted by on Monday, November 21, 2005
Medieval Ale Drinking In London
Posted by on Monday, November 21, 2005 in - 6 comments
An exhibit opens this week in London, England which provides evidence as to the drinking habits of the locals from around 1300 AD: • “Experts have uncovered evidence that 12th century Londoners drank ale by the gallon, starting at breakfast time, due to poor quality drinking water. Exhibits at …
Posted by on Sunday, November 20, 2005
Intelligently Designed Ale
Posted by on Saturday, November 19, 2005 in - leave a comment
Ah, Utah. If they are not going to learn it in schools you can expect folk are going to have to pick it up in the taverns of the nation: • “Wasatch Beers is changing the label on its 2002 Unofficial Amber Ale — a title that once raised a ruckus with Olympic officials — to "Evolution Amber Ale …
Two From Youngs, London, England
Posted by on Thursday, November 17, 2005 in - 2 comments
I do not appear to have provided much by the way of information about Young's. Just Dirty Dick's and their Double Chocolate Stout - and even that last one was just the barest note. How sad. • Young's are a local brewer in London that has done very well in the export market. Not that long ago …
The State Of Britain
Posted by on Thursday, November 17, 2005 in - leave a comment
As Britain's parliamentarians debate the prospect and the wisdom of the new 24 hour drinking freedom, the BBC has posted an excellent page on the state of Britian's relationship with the drink: • “Some have warned this moment, tagged an "alcoholic Big Bang", will signal chaos and disorder on the …
Email From Australia
Posted by on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 in - 1 comment
My pal Craig, one of the longest standing internet hands I know, is off in Australia visiting family. He sent through this image below that makes me think all is going well this spring in Oz. I wrote about this beer, Coopers Sparking Ale, a year ago when it was available in Ontario but never in …
Two More from Bear Republic, California, USA
Posted by on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 in - leave a comment
Last June I reviewed an XP Pale Ale from Bear Republic of Healdsburg, California and was mightily impressed. The trade paper...or brewspaper...Celebrator Beer News reported on a visit to Bear Republic in its June 2005 issue and mentioned the brewmasters other interests: • “Norgrove is not only …
Ontario: Pilsner, Steam Whistle Brewing, Metro Toronto
Posted by on Monday, November 14, 2005 in - 4 comments
Every once in a while I have a lager and then I remember that I don't like lagers much. You may have noticed this in the reviews set out here. But I have been meaning to try Steam Whistle for sometime to make sure I am not missing something good and local. • Good thing as this is my kind of …
The Interprovincial Beer Trade In Canada
Posted by on Monday, November 14, 2005 in - 1 comment
Craig Pinhey, a Maritime writer on beer and other beverages, laments the restrictions on the interprovincial beer trade in Canada. • “At one point beer could only be sold in provinces where it was brewed. Although not true anymore, we've not come very far. In New Brunswick, the rules give huge …
Good Beer Blog Nation
Posted by on Saturday, November 12, 2005 in - 9 comments
I think have asked you all before where you all are. Now you can show it on a map of the Good Beer Blog Nation from Frappr! Click on the "Ad Yourself" link to the right of the Frappr screen. I'll figure out how to run an updating version of this map sooner or later. • Let me know where you are …
Beer Industry Ads
Posted by on Saturday, November 12, 2005 in - leave a comment
I have noticed a few news items like this one on the idea of a ad campaign in the US for beer as a general product: • “Anheuser-Busch Cos. is lobbying its competitors to support a marketing campaign that highlights the benefits and social value of what they all produce: beer. Drawing inspiration …
Slopping Buckets Of Ale
Posted by on Thursday, November 10, 2005 in - leave a comment
One of my favorite web sites in the whole world is Forgotten New York run by Kevin Walsh who is a fan of all things utilitarian in architecture in the Big Apple. He has changed the way I see any city I visit. Last summer he wrote about a former bar and included the picture to the right …
Bad Branding
Posted by on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 in - 3 comments
I think I have to agree with the politically correct crowd on this one: • “Alcohol Healthwatch director Rebecca Williams said it was an ugly, sick and shocking way of encouraging young people into a drinking environment. The look-alike beer was sold in brown glass bottles and had a frothy head …
Health Tips For The Hophead
Posted by on Monday, November 7, 2005 in - 2 comments
Good news for the lover of massively hopped ales like the recently discussed Smuttynose Big A IPA...hops are really good for you! • “It turns out that beer hops contain a unique micronutrient that inhibits cancer-causing enzymes. Hops are plants used in beer to give it aroma, flavor and …
Another Three Whites Or Wittes Or Wits
Posted by on Saturday, November 5, 2005 in - 3 comments
Last year I did a side by side of four wittes or wits, Belgian white beers. Here I repeat the inclusion of the elemental wit, Hoegaarden, as a benchmark for comparison with the white in the middle from Allagash, a micro from Maine focusing on Belgian beers, and Blue Moon, which is actually …
8<sup><small>th</small></sup> Anniversary Ale, Stone, California, USA
Posted by on Thursday, November 3, 2005 in - leave a comment
What can you say about a beer that says so much about itself. I picked this one out of the stash, $5.99 USD last time I was south. It is a one off brew made in August 2004 from Stone of a previous standard of theirs called Lee's Mild...which makes it more of a revival than a one off. At 7.8% I am …
Garrison Brewing Company, Nova Scotia, Canada
Posted by on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 in - 10 comments
I'm a fan of Halifax's Garrison Brewing Company and will often order their product when I'm at a restaurant or at the local beer seller. Garrison arrived on the Halifax brewing scene in 1997 which was really a watershed year for local breweryana, with Propeller Brewing Company and the Maritime …
Ontario: Triple Chin Irish, Glenora Springs, Prince Edward Co.
Posted by on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 in - 3 comments
This maybe a bit of an odd ale. But not bad but at least maybe overly named in full as "McKinney's Triple Chin Irish Dark Ale". For me a dark ale ought to be malty like Neustadts 10W30. This example of MTCIDA is not malty but rather a bit cidery and even strawberryish. This is accentuated by a hop …
