Posts Tagged: Beer History, Lore and Traditions
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 …
Session Beer's More Troublesome Challenge?
Posted by on Thursday, April 5, 2012 in - 21 comments
An interesting observation at the end of Joe Sixpack's Phillie-based column today: • Craft beer's success is at least partly due to its potency. Small brewers differentiated themselves from macro-brew conglomerates by offering full-flavored ales and lagers whose higher prices were justified …
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 …
What Caused Steam Beer To Be Low End Then Not?
Posted by on Monday, March 19, 2012 in - 8 comments
A couple of reference to steam beer flitting around today. Anchor has a new web ad for a line of new beers leaning on its research of early California brewing. And it came up in the comments from Saturday's post about... what was Saturday's post about? I like the references cited at wikipedia from …
Ontario: The Red Lion Inn, Yonge Street, Toronto
Posted by on Sunday, March 4, 2012 in - 12 comments
Came across this image of the Red Lion Inn in Toronto at the Archives of Ontario. The photo is from 1886 and shows a building well into its eighth decade according to this blog post of just a few months ago. Built in what was then the country, it was the first stage coach destination on the … read more »
Howe's Public Houses Of Entertainment In Nova Scotia
Posted by on Saturday, March 3, 2012 in - leave a comment
I picked up my copy of Western and Eastern Rambles: Travel Sketches of Nova Scotia by Joseph Howe this morning. The sketches are a series of essay's the later famous politician published in his newspaper, the Novascotian, from 1828 to 1831. His travels were largely not about the writing but …
The Oldest Beer Joke In History... But Wuzzit Mean?
Posted by on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 in - 6 comments
So they finally got to the bottom of a box of Iraqi cuneiform tablets dug up in 1976 and found some written by some guy trying to be funny as reported in the New York Daily News: • This one could also benefit from cranking up the laugh track: • “In your mouth and your teeth, constantly stared …
"Trucks Were Backing Up To Get The Stuff In"
Posted by on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in - 5 comments
Good article at OpenFile Halifax today touching on a few points of my old home town of Halifax's drinking history. Most neato of all is the click-able photo above of the 1948 version of the Sea Horse Tavern. The name of the place has continued in the underground bar that was my home away from home …
My Most Interesting Discovered Drinky Thing Of 2011
Posted by on Saturday, December 31, 2011 in - 2 comments
This has been a year that I have thought about history a bit more than others. Canadian history for the most part. We make great mistakes in considering our own time on this land. We dismiss the First Nations. We pretend that Canada began when the current constitution was signed in 1867. But … read more »
History, Heritage and Plain Old Marketing Actually Differ
Posted by on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 in - 12 comments
I think this is one of the more naive articles I have ever read about beer: • “The story is critical because it’s what differentiates a beer from any other beer,” Calagione told me. Still, he added, “just because you hear of some creepy group of Norwegians that 300 years ago put the blood of …
