Posts Tagged: Albany Ale Project
Lazy Summary Of Tuesday Posts By Other People
Posted by on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in - 4 comments
OK, I got up at five. Give me a break. Tired. Too tired for this? No. No, it's not that Twitter is more interesting than blogging. It isn't! No. I'll pay more attention to you real soon, blog. Sure, I haven't posted since Sunday and the last post over there was about carrots but you are the focus …
Albany Ale: Bringing Together Different Perspectives
Posted by on Sunday, September 2, 2012 in - 3 comments
One of my favorite things about thinking about beer is realizing that it is actually a hugely diversified discussion even if there are significant forces trying to homogenize and standardize and prioritize the discourse. The upcoming beer school at Beau's Oktoberfest is framing this varieties of …
Albany Ale: Another Annotated Brewing Log From 1834
Posted by on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 in - 7 comments
More. Here are two brews from April 1834 in the same account book near the end of that brewing season. They are batches #185 and #186. There are a couple of things that arise from the last set of comments: • ♦ the majority of the beer is described as amber rather than pale. In fact, pale ale … read more »
Albany Ale: An Annotated Brewing Log From 1834
Posted by on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 in - 16 comments
A bit of a question for you today. Above is a brewing log from just before the world of US brewing learned about lager. I won't get into the details of whose log it is for now as I am hoping you may be able to help draw out a few more details than I have. If you click on the image you will see my …
Albany Ale: Did The Hessian Fly Play A Role?
Posted by on Saturday, June 16, 2012 in - 4 comments
It has been a bit part of the puzzle for me. As I have mentioned before, Craig as taken more of an interest in Albany Ale as reflected in the 1800s industrial period where I am more interested in the pre-1800s experience. The weird thing has been that not only do the two eras reflect issues of …
Oh, Look - Peter Gansevoort Needed Barley In 1798
Posted by on Thursday, May 24, 2012 in - 2 comments
After an intense amount of effort researching only the very finest digital archives, Craig (and not I) came across this sweet ad from 28 July 1798 from the Albany Gazette. He explains himself over at his blog how he was hot on the train of Edward A. Le Breton, Albany brewer in the first decade of …
Book Review: But Are These Really Beer Books?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 in - 12 comments
Beer books. I have read enough of them but they are not the whole extent of the books I read related to my interest in beer. One of the most interesting things for me about my interest in beer is how is it woven though the community and through time. On top up there is my recently acquired copy of …
Albany Ale: In 1888 There Were Many Sorts Of Albany Ales
Posted by on Sunday, April 15, 2012 in - 16 comments
... and porters, too, as we read in an interesting reference to the state of brewing in Albany in the 1880s from a book titled The Empire State: its Industries and Wealth sitting over at Google books. At page 120 this is part of the florid description of the brewing business of Quinn & Nolan …
Albany Ale: Big News And An Old Tavern
Posted by on Friday, April 13, 2012 in - 4 comments
That's a 1937 photo found at the US Library of Congress online of 1937 entitled "Old Tavern, Feura Bush Vicinity, Houcks Corners, Albany County, NY." Sitting at a crossroad to the south west of Albany, the old tavern was built around 1845. Whatever Albany ale was, it's likely they served it here …
Albany Ale: Well, Look At That... Wheat Beer
Posted by on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 in - 13 comments
It's not that I long to be right but once in a while I do like to be right. Not so much vindicated as explained. In August 2010, I referenced a quite from a traveler in the central New York region in 1749 who describes in some detail how the Dutch in the Albany area were growers - and maltsters of …
