November 2008
Wisconsin: Wisconsin Belgian Red, New Glarus Brewing, New Glarus
Posted by on Sunday, November 30, 2008 in - 3 comments
Is that not the most repetitive title to a post yet? I wonder if New Glarus is in New Glarus County...or maybe Wisconsin county. Anyway, this is simply an incredible beer. Stan and Daria brought it to us when they visited this summer. Once upon a time, I had a small old farmhouse and it was near a …
Day 14: I Just Uploaded 118 Contest Entries To Flickr
Posted by on Saturday, November 29, 2008 in - leave a comment
118 Entries from 26 contestants in the Yule 2008 Beer Blog Photo Contest And Non-Credit Course in Fluids And Photography. It is clearly moments like this that make Jeff and I so proud of running A Good Beer Blog and Stonch's Beer Blog...well, that and the packages of samples delivered to our doors …
Home Brewing: Drinking Green Beer That Is Brown
Posted by on Thursday, November 27, 2008 in - 5 comments
One of my favorite things is the green beer stage. After the liquor becomes wort but before it becomes bright it is green. Because I am a bad brewer, I never know how it will turn out in the end but when it is green - before the infections can set in, before the carbonation can fail - it tastes …
Day 11: More Prizes Than Entrants?!? Send More Photos!!!
Posted by on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 in - 2 comments
That is Paul Bergeman at the Laurelwood Brewing Co. of Portland Oregon. Matt Wiater, Senior Editor with • www.portlandbeer.org sent it in. Isn't it loverly? I thought so. Then I thought about what else he could do for the contest so I hit him up to help gather more prizes for the 2008 Yule Beer …
Silly Headline: "Beer Adds New Excitement..."
Posted by on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 in - leave a comment
"...to the Traditional Thanksgiving Feast"?? Silly headlines. I know about these things. I am related to a silly headline writer. And I actually went to a school with a branch dedicated to silly headline writing and the other journalistic arts. You have to be on your toes about these things … read more »
Day 9: A Few Updates On A Crazy Beer Filled Monday
Posted by on Monday, November 24, 2008 in - 6 comments
The contest is on! The contest is on! Entries are pouring on but there has been a bunch of other stuff keeping me from posting a semi-gallery so far. It is really a hemi-semi-demi-gallery so far but you get the point. Here is some stuff I have notice over the last few days: • I brewed yesterday …
Craft Or Kraphtt: Porter, Michelob Brewing, St Louis, Mo.
Posted by on Saturday, November 22, 2008 in - 3 comments
I was going to write "wow" or something but that wouldn't quite capture my surprise at how good this beer is. Poured at a chilly cellar temperature, there is an immediate mass of dry cocoa that sits in such balance with that bit of hop, a little java and that little nod to dark plum that …
Holland: Urthel Samaranth, Koningshoeven, Berkel-Enschot, Tilburg, North Brabant
Posted by on Saturday, November 22, 2008 in - 1 comment
Just for the record, I took no photo and took no notes but last night the look on the face of the guy at the kitchen party who said he didn't like beer across the street when I poured him half of my 750ml of Urthel Samaranth last night was priceless. "Most beer tastes like crap" he said. "Like …
Yuck! That Yeast Is Flocculating Itself Again!!!
Posted by on Thursday, November 20, 2008 in - 2 comments
When I was a home brewer - as opposed to a person who has home brewing supplies and equipment in the house but never does anything with it all - I used to be concerned about flocculation. Flocculation is the word that describes the capacity of a yeast (or other stuff for all I know) to clump. It … read more »
Beer History Master Classes As Found On Beer Blogs
Posted by on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 in - 2 comments
You know, there was a time when I wrote posts about the history of beer. Then I got in a bit of a dust up with Ron Pattinson which then became quite civil when I said something like "if you are so clever about all this history stuff you should write a blog" which, we all know, he then did and now …
Photo Contest Day 3: Great Beer Prizes Keep Coming In!
Posted by on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 in - 2 comments
Let's see, we announced on Sunday and this is Tuesday so, yup, this is day three of the Christmas 2008 Beer Blog Photo Contest and so far, in addition to the six prize givers announced at the launch, we are now able to announce that we have added the following prizes to the swag bag: • Ron …
BrewDog And Skull Splitter Face Humourless Tribunal
Posted by on Monday, November 17, 2008 in - 5 comments
Following up on a story we discussed last May, tomorrow's edition of The Independent tells the sad tale of how both BrewDog and the Orkney Brewery, makers of Skull Splitter, have had a ruling made against them by the shadowy Portman Group - described by The Independent as a self-regulating … read more »
The 2008 Yule Beer Blog Photo Contest Is Launched!
Posted by on Sunday, November 16, 2008 in - 6 comments
Hear Ye Hear Ye! Oyez Oyez!!! Ladies and Gentlemen and children of all ages! May we have drum rrrrrrrollllllllll if you please!!! Can I get a witness??? Bang the Gong, Get it On!!! • Once again this year, I am happy to declare the beer blog Christmas photo contest is on. Real on. Real on right …
NY Market For Canuck Macro Key To InBev Deal
Posted by on Friday, November 14, 2008 in - leave a comment
How odd. Those cases and cases of cheap ass Canadian Labatt Blue selling in upstate NY gas stations and grocery stores for about half of the price we pay up here have become an issue in the global InBev deal for A-B: • The Justice Department said Friday it will have to sell the U.S. Labatt …
Norway: Imperial Stout, Nøgne Ø, Grimstad
Posted by on Thursday, November 13, 2008 in - leave a comment
Samples. Reason enough to beer blog, I'd say, and when things from Norway come in the mail all the better. I had the porter from Nøgne Ø last year and seem to have loved it so this 9% bigger sibling was a welcome sight. I've also had their Julesnadder, a Christmas beer, last year care of Knut the …
Knut Travels To Midtown Manhattan
Posted by on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 in - 1 comment
Sure, it's changed. Yeah, it's the Grumpy Old Man reporting again. I remember once, while we were on our summer holiday in Oslo, that traveling to America meant a voyage on Den Norske Amerikalinje. We were standing on the quay with hundreds of others, waving to my aunt, who was going away for a …
Origin, He'brew, Schmaltz Brewing, Saratoga Springs, NY
Posted by on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 in - 3 comments
It's been a couple of years but I have enjoyed every beer I have had by these guys. They are, in fact, probably the best contract brewer out there...or at least my favorite. Bittersweet Lenny's R.I.P.A. alone justifies that. • Origin Pomegranate Ale is likely not the first thing you are going to …
A New Way To Make Some Beer Blogging Money
Posted by on Monday, November 10, 2008 in - 4 comments
Those pals of mine at silverorange, the good folk who run the hickory fired servers upon which A Good Beer Blog runs, have come up with a new idea - a group web gallery called ClusterShot which also allows you to sell licenses for the use of your photos. I know one thing about beer bloggers. We …
When Should A Beer Blog Pay For Itself And The Beer?
Posted by on Saturday, November 8, 2008 in - 1 comment
Interesting to note that there are two comments today from pro-writing bloggers (ploggers?) mentioning how their connection to the blog connects directly or indirectly to income. Jack Curtain over at his Liquid Diet states: • ...I want to once again express my deep gratitude to everyone who sent …
Session 21: What's My Favorite? What Does That Mean?
Posted by on Friday, November 7, 2008 in - leave a comment
Your son or your daughter? An earthy fresh dug carrot rubbed off almost clean on your pant leg or an apple just picked off the bough skin snapping at the first gushing bite? Your long dead cat from when you were ten or your long dead cat from when you were six? The trip to the family cottage last …
Is This Our Law Of Beer Hero Of The Day?
Posted by on Thursday, November 6, 2008 in - 1 comment
I am not going to suggest this world needs more violence, more anti-civil behaviours, more jerks. No, I am not going to suggest that. But I might suggest that once in a while a well placed beer poured from above is not such a bad thing: • A Glenview man who poured beer over his apartment balcony …
What To Drink On US Election Night?
Posted by on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 in - 6 comments
I am not a big mid-week imbiber and, let's be honest, I have no skin directly in this game but as a big fan of spending election night watching TV, writing on the internet, listening to NPR web radio, leaving a radio on in another room where an AM radio station from somewhere far away fades in and …
Miller Leaves Market With Which It Had No Real Connection
Posted by on Monday, November 3, 2008 in - 8 comments
I am all for the global marketplace and beer being something to share around the planet. Heck, just today I secured a really dandy set of prizes for the 2008 photo contest from a noted Scottish brewery as well as a distributor of fine imports into North American - but are you really surprised by …
The Third Good Beer Blog Photo Contest Is Coming!!!
Posted by on Sunday, November 2, 2008 in - 4 comments
Wow. Year number three. Who knew this would all still be going on. I was sure we would all be communicating by 3D holographs and brain implants by now. Sadly, the future is not yet here. You are not soon to get a jet pack. • But there is plenty of other things to get if you send in a photo to … read more »
Evan And Stan On The State Of Italian Craft Beer
Posted by on Saturday, November 1, 2008 in - leave a comment
There is a great article on Italian craft beer in The New York Times today by our friend and co-author around here by times, Evan Rail in which Stan makes an appearance as part of the Hieronymi's global search for great beer. The accompanying photo by Dave Yoder, copied above, is a study of how to …
