Posts Tagged: Albany Ale Project
Father's Day Tomorrow May Find Me Typing
Posted by on Saturday, June 15, 2013 in - 7 comments
There may come a time that beer and brewing will only mean writing to me. Not that I have any real issue with beer but right now I have three co-writing projects all of which add up to around 150,000 words. I realized just now that that's a lot of words when I finish typing out all those zeroes …
Albany Ale: Taylor's 1800s Brewey As A U-Haul Depot
Posted by on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 in - 1 comment
Getting the scale of the thing into photos was hard given the closeness of the river and the interstate highway and the rail line. But that's why Taylor built his expanded brewery here, wasn't it. Transportation. Craig and I crawled around the place last evening. We think it is the building to the …
Albany Ale: How Was 1700s Brewing Structured?
Posted by on Monday, June 3, 2013 in - leave a comment
More books in the mail today. Books on colonial American economics - trade and agriculture. As Craig pointed out the other day, the last third of the 1600s and the first two thirds of the 1700s is the last bit of the story of Albany ale and associated Hudson Valley brewing that we have been … read more »
Albany Ale: Mainstream Media's Willpower Is Crushed!!!
Posted by on Thursday, April 18, 2013 in - 2 comments
It has been clear from the first inklings that there was a big story on Albany brewing that has yet to be told that there's been a silent force out there keeping us down. Mainstream media. There. I've said it. Whew! What a relief. I've been keeping that in for some long. You have no idea. But now …
Albany Ale: Why Did They Grow All That Wheat?
Posted by on Saturday, March 9, 2013 in - 5 comments
Did I mention that I was tickled to get my copy of Alcohol and its Role in the Evolution of Human Society by Ian S. Hornsey last week? Oh, I did. One of the great truths of this mortal coil is how chronology must be obeyed. And I was particularly ticked to realize that since my last Hornsey, the …
An Update On The Shared Works Of Writing
Posted by on Monday, February 18, 2013 in - 4 comments
Long writing is something that has nagged at me for much of my adult life. Unlike what you see on TV, most of what most people who, like me, work in the law spend most of the day reading and writing, searching for a more coherent argument or a weak point in the authority being relied upon. And it …
Albany Ale: In 1670 The Best Ale Was Wheat Ale
Posted by on Sunday, February 3, 2013 in - 7 comments
You ever wonder why the reference you find after two and a half years took two and a half years to find? Look at this: • Their best Liquors are Fiall, Passado, and Madera Wines, the former are sweetish, the latter a palish Claret, very spritely and generous, two shillings a Bottle; their best … read more »
Albany Ale: When Did Dutch Hop Importation Begin?
Posted by on Saturday, February 2, 2013 in - 5 comments
Last November, I suggested that one intention of the settlement of the Hudson Valley of New York in the first half of the 1600s was to set up an agricultural colony that might supply other colonial efforts with particular products. One of the books I have obtained as part of this idle bit of slow …
Albany Ale: Factors Framing Colonial Life And Purpose
Posted by on Sunday, November 11, 2012 in - 5 comments
More books showed up this week. See, as Craig has recently described, Beverwijck - or what is now Albany - was founded in the 1620s. In emails back and forth, we've been discussing and testing ideas around the meaning of brewing and the community in the 1600s and the 1800s. We have sorta skipped …
Is There Anyone More Interesting Than Simon H Johnson?
Posted by on Saturday, November 10, 2012 in - 7 comments
I like helping people. Say what you like, I am a people person at heart. I helped people today. I have been helping people so much this week, I have snapped at an old pal in my business life and been living on five hour sleeps. I made a lamb sausage curry tonight, too. So it is with some … read more »
