Posts Tagged: Beer History, Lore and Traditions
Who Made Ontario's First Lager And Where?
Posted by on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 in - 2 comments
In the 1868-69 edition of Sutherland's City of Hamilton and County of Wentworth Directory there is listed a little listing that says "Eckhardt, August, brewer, Hamilton Lager Beer Brewery..." This corresponds with Sneath's first listing for a lager brewery in 1868 which states: • Edward Eckhardt …
Ontario: Stock Ale, Mill Street Brewery, Toronto
Posted by on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in - 1 comment
Where was I? The 1830s and 40s? About there. Local breweries popping up as settlers move west, filling up southern Ontario right up to the Lake Huron coast. Familar names start popping up. In 1835, James Morton is operating out of the old Molson brewery on the Kingston waterfront. John Sleeman …
Why Did Ontario Beer Have To Make Its Own Way?
Posted by on Sunday, June 20, 2010 in - leave a comment
Why did Ontario have to make its own path to beerdom? Well, a war and a river for one thing. As we discussed yesterday, the land that is now Ontario was settled in 1783-84 by Loyalist refugees from New York state after the American Revolution. For the first five years, Kingston is a military town …
The Origins Of Ontario's Good Beer Tradition
Posted by on Saturday, June 19, 2010 in - 20 comments
Beer. It only gets to you in so many ways. You make beer and provide it to your community. You make beer and ship it to another community. You ship beer in and provide it to your community. There are not too many other options for the beer trade whether you are talking about 1810 or 2010. Today we …
Another Fact Or Two Relevant To Albany Ale
Posted by on Monday, May 10, 2010 in - 5 comments
Reading a book on Mohawk political figures called The Two Hendricks when I came upon a few facts that may become relevant to the Albany Ale question: • In 1721, Albany developed a trade in flour and bread to the West Indies.In the 1740s, the loyalties of the Albany Dutch were held suspect by the …
More Thoughts On That Pesky Albany Ale Question
Posted by on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in - 80 comments
I have been thinking more about this pre-1850 invention called "Albany ale" and I am a bit surprised to find so many references to it of one sort and so few references of another. The stuff was made in volume, transported and traded over great distances but now seemingly forgotten to memory. As we …
The New York Times Examines The Growler
Posted by on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 in - 10 comments
It has to happen sooner or later. The mainstream media has gotten the good beer bug and for the most part has added to the discourse. Stories about ingredients and techniques, stories about rare beers and beers from places that are hard to reach. And, now, the story of the growler beginning with …
Why Does The RSC Want A Can Of Watney's Party Seven?
Posted by on Sunday, January 17, 2010 in - 3 comments
I was trolling Google for beer stories this weekend when I came across a story in Britain's Daily Mail about Britain's Royal Society of Chemistry looking for an unopened can of Watney's Party Seven Draught Bitter. Though a venerable brewer, the name "Watney's" rings though the recent decades for …
Allsopp's Arctic Ale And Arctic Homebrew In 1852
Posted by on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 in - 3 comments
There is a bit of beery backroom buzz about plans to make a movie about the Allsopp's Arctic Ale, the beer which accompanied a British navy expedition in the Canadian high Arctic in the mid-eighteenth century. The film maker's website is not up yet but there is a Facebook page which reports …
Somewhere Below The Sea... Waiting For Me...
Posted by on Friday, November 20, 2009 in - leave a comment
Interesting to read about the state of beer and... err... other beverages which have spent decades below the sea in shipwrecks: • Take the case of the divers who opened and drank one of eight bottles of beer they recovered from the Loch Shiel off the Welsh coast. Jim Phillips, one of the divers …
