Posts Tagged: Beer History, Lore and Traditions
Ontario: Fryfogel's Tavern, Near New Hamburg, Perth Co.
Posted by on Monday, January 3, 2011 in - 5 comments
Ever since I opened my copy of Julia Robert's In Mixed Company, a history of the taverns of Upper Canada from the 1780s to the 1850s, I have wondered how many of our Upper Canadian pioneer taverns there might be left out there. Well, I passed one today - the Fryfogel Tavern - and thought I would …
Delaware: Theobroma, Dogfish Head, Milton
Posted by on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 in - 1 comment
Mark Dredge has a piece in this morning's Guardian out of the UK entitled "The Beer of Yesteryear" which scans the range of recent brewing efforts to recreate beers older than, say, 500 years ago. These are beers which use ingredients available to former culture including Theorbrama by Dogfish …
Is Historic Brewing Taking Off A Wee Bit More?
Posted by on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 in - 16 comments
Despite my initial thought from the headline that we were talking about a lost beer of the Old Testament, it did appear for a second there that a small brewery in Scotland was actually exploring its inner Victorian side: • Robert Knops took the idea for his new creation, Musselburgh Broke, from …
What Is My Methodology? Perchance Schmethodology?
Posted by on Friday, October 1, 2010 in - 4 comments
I have found myself wondering what the heck I am doing with all this Albany Ale stuff but I'm not too concerned. It is interesting in itself and I think it is informing me on a pretty interesting big picture question - what makes the Albany and the Hudson River so different from the St. Lawrence …
Why Can't A Full Moon Make Better Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, September 26, 2010 in - 4 comments
Someone out there was blogging against this idea that beer brewed at the full moon tastes different. I say "boo" to that and "boo" I say again. Here is the idea: • In Peruwelz, a sleepy town in Belgium, a family-owned brewery has produced its first batch of beer brewed by the light of a full …
Book Review: In Mixed Company, Julia Roberts
Posted by on Monday, September 6, 2010 in - 6 comments
Anyone interested in beer in Canada - or even colonial North America - really ought to have this book on the shelf. 2009's In Mixed Company: Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada is a series of essays on topics related to the structure, regulation and use of taverns in what later became Ontario …
Albany Ale: When Did They Stop Using Wheat Malt?
Posted by on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 in - 5 comments
I came across this reference to the malting of wheat in a 1869 series of essays and reports called The Annals of Albany. Apparently one Peter Kalm, a professor from a Swedish university, visited North America from 1748 to 1750 making some sort of economic and natural resources survey. He made … read more »
Albany Ale: What Hops Would They Have Used?
Posted by on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 in - 9 comments
Remember Albany ale? Last spring, I found a number of references to beer being shipped around the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland to New Orleans as well as references to it being sold in Texas and even California. Not sure what it was but there was plenty of evidence that it was something …
Make Mine A Micro-Beer, Wouldja!?!
Posted by on Friday, July 9, 2010 in - 3 comments
The recent past is a funny thing. We never think to go find out what we were like 20 or 30 years ago and when we do it's oddly not just like, you know, us. Stan got me on this trail when he asked the simple question "Who first used the words craft beer?" Craft beer is actually a late comer to the …
Stuck In My Own Town's Mid-1800s Beery History
Posted by on Sunday, June 27, 2010 in - 2 comments
I had intended to get into the 1900s but have gotten stuck in the newspapers out of my town from the nineteenth century. From its first days at the western edge of the British Empire, as this pretty poor image of an early 1800s map shows, Kingston had a Brewery Street. Its still there even if …
