August 2006
Quick Note: Shepherd Neame Goldings, England
Posted by on Thursday, August 31, 2006 in - 3 comments
We don't get enough Shepherd Neame around here. Just Bishop's Finger in the LCBO and I thought I had heard rumours that even its days might be numbered. And just like Spitfire was a seasonal release from the government store in 2004, so too this summer we had their Goldings Summer Hop Ale. • I …
Lake Placid Craft Brewing Sold
Posted by on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 in - 3 comments
Hey, seems I am not the only Canada who loves upstate New York craft brewing. One of my favorites has been bought up: • “Montreal's ICBS Ltd. said Wednesday it is buying New York`s Lake Placid Craft Brewing Co. The 10-year-old Lake Placid Craft Brewing Co. has created a market demand for their …
"A Glass Of Handmade"
Posted by on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 in - 2 comments
There are a few moments I can point to in my memory that represent elemental changes that helped frame my interest in beer. The first time I was allowed to dip a finger in a Labatt Blue; the Olands Ex I had at my pal's house in high school; the visit I made to the Pitfield Beer Shop in 1986 from …
Ontario: Neustadt Springs Brewery, Neustadt, Bruce County
Posted by on Sunday, August 27, 2006 in - 1 comment
Directions to Neustadt Springs • As I headed up from Stratford towards Owen Sound on a family tour, I knew that Neustadt was roughly on the way but I had to figure out the shift in the north-south concession lot roads from the north-west to south-east ones...and I got a little lost. South of …
Not Beer Blogging...Brewing Blogging
Posted by on Friday, August 25, 2006 in - leave a comment
Steve at Beau's All Natural, Ontario's newest and eastern-most micro, is running a blog and posted yesterday about the ripping tale of the kölsch that was a bock but which won the prize anyway.
Beer Stalking on Hunter Mountain (NY)
Posted by on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 13 comments
Last weekend I took the family off the Island (that would be Long Island, New York) for some beer adventures in the Catskills. We went to Hunter Mountain to take in the International Celtic Festival. My wife is a more studied appreciator of Celtic music, but I enjoy it also, albeit more casually …
New York Beer Trail A Reality
Posted by on Thursday, August 24, 2006 in - 1 comment
Last year Julia from western New York posted about the idea of a beer trail from the state just like those wine trails from maker to maker that has help many learn about the great products from all around a given region. Now, the beer trail is about to move from idea to reality: • “New York is …
Belgium: Premium Kriek, St. Louis, Ingelmunster
Posted by on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 in - 4 comments
Book Review: <i>Great American Beer</i>
Posted by on Sunday, August 20, 2006 in - 5 comments
This is a handy neat smaller format hardcover that the publisher was kind enough to FedEx me this week. And I am glad they did as this is a dandy guide to its exact topic: post WWII, pre-micro revolution pre-branding US beer. The author gladly admits this in the introduction: • “The antithesis … read more »
Seven More Porters
Posted by on Thursday, August 17, 2006 in - 12 comments
I really quite like a porter and, what with the best part of the summer's heat now in the past, you can now contemplate taking on the layers of flavour these beers should provide. I have posted a bunch of posts about porters, everything from that macro-spawn Labatt Porter that is still to be found …
More Bulgarian Beer Industry News
Posted by on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 in - 5 comments
As you may have noticed, I love news about the Bulgarian beer trade, like this tidbit found via Google News today: • “According to the latest analysis of the Union of Brewers in Bulgaria... • [o]verall beer consumption went up by 11 per cent. Kamenitsa and Zagorka experienced a five to six per …
Sleeman Breweries Sold
Posted by on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 in - 3 comments
As hoped for on auction day, Canada's smallest macro, Sleeman Breweries of Guelph here in Ontario has found a buyer from Japan: • “Japan's Sapporo Breweries Ltd. plans to keep open all of Sleeman Breweries Ltd.'s operations and will retain John Sleeman as head of the company as part of a …
Delaware: Golden Shower, Dogfish Head, Milton
Posted by on Sunday, August 13, 2006 in - 11 comments
An imperial pilsner. This is a sort of beer I never imagined I would need to concern myself with. Unlike stouts or pale ales with their history of bigness, surely no one would bother upping the game of brewing the steely king of lagers. No one told Dogfish Head from Delaware, however, and they … read more »
Beer Food: Cheddar Beer Chips
Posted by on Saturday, August 12, 2006 in - 5 comments
Let’s say it is five-ish, the game is on at half-time, and you are hungry. And thirsty. You go to the fridge, grab some beer, but it is getting on, so you have the munchies and grab some cheddar next to the beer, then some chips from the cupboard. It no longer matters if your team wins, because …
Bobbique on Long Island
Posted by on Friday, August 11, 2006 - leave a comment
Last time I promised that I would review a new taproom that appeared here on Long Island. The place is called Bobbique and it's been open for only a couple of months. If you live here, then definitely visit this place. We need to support businesses like this that offer such a great beer selection …
Beer In Japan
Posted by on Thursday, August 10, 2006 in - 2 comments
I saw this short but somewhat jam-packed story on beer culture in Japan today during my sweep of the entire internet¹ for new amazing tales of beer: • “After-hours beer binges are a mainstay of corporate communication between salarymen, bosses and business partners. Red-faced executives, their …
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Angstity Beer Blogging
Posted by on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 in - 4 comments
The good guys at Beer Advocate posted this... • “First, we hate blogs as much as this guy: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/bon ... bLogs.html. (Actually ... we hate blogs more.) That’s why this is not a blog.” • ...and then proceeded to announce their new blog...which isn't a blog...yet works …
Scottish and Belgian on Long Island
Posted by on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 3 comments
Your Long Island beat beer reporter abandoned his usual stomping ground and flew out to the Pacific Northwest---the Seattle-Tacoma area to be precise. I visited a number of breweries in that corridor extending from the southern tip of Puget Sound up to the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle where a …
Book Review: Three Beer Books I Do Not Love
Posted by on Monday, August 7, 2006 in - 6 comments
I am a lucky guy. I now get books I ask for sent to me so I can review them for you. I like to think that I only review the ones I have a great deal of respect for but, still, the others do pile up...even if it is a little pile as there still are not that many books about beer being written. So …
Do I Care Who Makes It?
Posted by on Sunday, August 6, 2006 in - 1 comment
I found this remark interesting from an article about the tensions in the US macro brewing world: • “"If beer drinkers find out they're involved in some of these craft beers, they'll lose all of their cachet," says Ms. Ramberg, a Heineken drinker. Mr. Forrest disagrees, arguing many drinkers …
More Good Beer Reading
Posted by on Thursday, August 3, 2006 in - 7 comments
In my never expanding effort to get you people to read more about beer, I offer you a great new source of information, the Chicagoist. Underneath this link you will find search results from that organ's search engine for the word "beer". The Chicagoist does not appear to have a handy category link …
Quick Note: Hefeweizen, Sebago Brewing, Maine, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, August 2, 2006 in - 3 comments
I tried this seasonal beer from the Sebago Brewing Company of Portland Maine a couple of weeks ago when I was at the Maine short during a stinking hot heatwave. It was good. I brought one home only to find another stinking hot heatwave moving through these parts with around 90F in the backyard … read more »
Cyclops - Perhaps The Worst Idea Ever
Posted by on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 in - 9 comments
Describing taste in words is funny business but making the effort is worthwhile as it provides you with a mechanism through which you can record your experiences with food and drink, and especially craft foods like real ale. We each take in the esters, phenols and other organic elements and …
