Posts Tagged: Beer History, Lore and Traditions
A City Of 1890 In Love With Strong Ales
Posted by on Monday, December 8, 2008 in - 5 comments
I had reason to mine the archives of The New York Times today - for entirely proper purposes, I can assure you - but it was quite a moment, that moment when I knew in my small way that I was living out the life Pattinsonian, beery archive sleuth. What I came upon today was an 1890s travel piece …
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 …
Jeffery Amherst's Spruce Beer Circa 1759
Posted by on Sunday, October 5, 2008 in - 1 comment
I am a bad home brewer. I have had supplies in for months to do a couple of all-grain batches but still they stiff wrapped and wrapped again in plastic in a cool, dark place. I did buy another mash pot yesterday but, given my failure to avoid napping and reading this afternoon, no beer again was …
Pubs And Tavs: What Is The Oldest Pub Near You?
Posted by on Monday, September 8, 2008 in - 4 comments
A few weeks ago, Jay posted over at Brookston Beer Bulletin about the oldest bars in America after reading about a list someone posted with their take on the oldest ten. Jay disagreed and was able to put together his own list of 50 with no less than 14 pre-1800 bars. It got my brain thinking about …
No Beer In Any Canoe Without A Galley And A Head
Posted by on Friday, May 23, 2008 in - 1 comment
I know these police press releases are intended to help us all get through the weekend safe and and sound and in one piece more or less. However, this interview with a member of the Ontario Provincial Police contains an interesting concept - how to legally drink in a canoe in this fair province …
Session 15: How Did It All Start For You?
Posted by on Friday, May 2, 2008 in - 5 comments
I want to say one thing. Where the heck did the days of whatchure fayvrit bock go? All these questions like who's your beer friend, what's your best beer place? I wish we'd get back to beer and a lot less about me...or you if you are another beer blogger. But at least this one is about me and beer …
Your Volstead Amendment Day Guide For This April 7th
Posted by on Monday, April 7, 2008 in - 4 comments
Every American Bar, circa April 6, 1933 • I was thinking of being all Grumpelstiltskin and point out...again...that this is not "Prohibition Repeal Day" but I thought the better of it. I thought people might say "how expected" or even "ho-hum" or maybe even stoop to use the word "weenie." How …
Session 14: Where Are My Beer Peeps? Who Is My Beer Pal?
Posted by on Friday, April 4, 2008 in - leave a comment
I was chatting on the IM with Stonch about this subject when he was thinking about it and I had to admit that it would be a hard one for me. Like the other bloggers for this edition of The Session, a lot of people go one about beer being a social lubricant and all but that's just not the way it is …
Pick A Date, Any Date, For The End Of Prohibition
Posted by on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 in - leave a comment
Happy Canadians Helping Thirsty Mainers1 • Some of our US cousins are all happy happy over celebrating the 7th of April as some sort of anniversary of the repeal of prohibition despite strong evidence otherwise reviewed last year. While it is hard to pin point the actual date that celebrating …
Find The Facts! Be Your Own Ron!!!
Posted by on Thursday, October 18, 2007 in - 9 comments
Ron Pattinson has hit the beer blogging world like a...like a...like a very Ron-like thing. Recently Lew wrote this about Ron: • “Pattinson, meanwhile, has been tearing apart the lazily accepted history of porter, stout, and mild...using great drifts of data he's collected from brewer's logs …
