Posts Tagged: Brewery Info
Two From Goose Island Beer Co., Chicago, USA
Posted by on Thursday, June 22, 2006 in - 5 comments
For those of you North Americans not in the eastern third of North America, it may be hard to believe that this is the first time I have found brews from the Goose Island Beer Co. in my north-eastern travels. But such is the power of inter-state, international and inter-provincial beer regulation …
A Trip To Wagner Valley Brewing In Two Chapters
Posted by on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 in - 19 comments
Chapter One, Saturday: upon which they first meet the IPA... • Last night, after a week visiting teetotalers, I got home and it was hot. In between rainstorms I had to cut the lawn and rake it too. Happily, there was one last Guinness in the fridge, and I sucked it down like one who has just …
Festival Fiasco and the Great Long Island Beer Tour
Posted by on Friday, May 19, 2006 in - 1 comment
Two weeks ago in this space I mentioned that I would be attending the Long Island Beer Festival and gave you a preview of some of the attractions of the festival. In addition to great beers from New York, the other mid-Atlanic states, and from the rest of the world, Garrett Oliver and Phil …
Belgium: Poperings Hommel Ale, Brouwerij Van Eecke, Watou
Posted by on Tuesday, May 2, 2006 in - 5 comments
Picked up at Tully's in Maine, at $3.29 USD for 330 ml, this is a Belgian strong pale or golden ale, sharing that general class with Duval, Piraat or Delirium Tremens. The brewery says this about its Poperings Hommel ale on its website: • “In the area of Poperinge, which is a little town in the …
Knut Goes To Italy
Posted by on Saturday, April 29, 2006 in - 1 comment
"...L'ultima creazione di Renzo..." • The city of Parma is quite sleepy on this spring afternoon. Actually, so am I, I got up at half past in the morning to get there, but that is not the point. The bus stop in front of the train station is largely deserted, too, but a young man from Ghana helps …
Twin Lakes Brewery, Buckley's Tavern tasting preview
Posted by on Thursday, April 13, 2006 in - leave a comment
I received the following press release of interest to those in the Delaware Valley area. • “Please mark your calendars and tell your friends to join you at Buckley’s Tavern this Thursday from 4 to 8 PM to sample the delicious new craft beers from Twin Lakes Brewing Company. • Samuel Hobbs …
Ontario: Two Elora Ales, Trafalgar Brewing, Oakville
Posted by on Sunday, April 2, 2006 in - 1 comment
Here are two ales from the Elora Old Mill brand produced by Trafalgar Brewing Company at Oakville, Ontario. According to the ever useful Brewed in Canada by Allen Winn Sneath, in 1997: • “Trafalgar Brewery of Oakville opens the Old Mill Brewery in Elora on the site of the defunct Taylor & Bate …
Smithwick's Irish Ale in the USA
Posted by on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 in - 15 comments
My friends from England knew exactly what this beer was when it arrived in the US on March 11, 2004 in time for St Patrick's day that year. Thanks to Guinness USA, the owner of Smithwick's (pronounced "Smiddick's"), this traditional Irish Red Ale first appeared in pubs on draught in "key markets" …
Two Simpler Dogfish Brews, Delaware, USA
Posted by on Monday, March 20, 2006 in - 20 comments
Indian Brown Ale and 60 Minute IPA from Dogfish. While they make the excellent yet basic Shelter Pale Ale, Dogfish Head is one of the great micro-breweries of North American and well-known for innovations like the continually and highly hopped 120 and 90 Minute IPAs. Heck, for St. Patrick's Day …
Old Chub, Oskar Blues Brewery, Lyons, Colorado, USA
Posted by on Friday, March 3, 2006 in - 8 comments
Canned Beer Goodness • We get great emails around here and this week I had one of the most interesting exchanges with Marty Jones, • Lead Singer of the Oskar Blues Brewery in Lyons, Colorado. Marty sent me some information about their two beers in cans and how they were bringing their ales to …
