Posts Tagged: Brewery Info
New York: Post Road Pumpkin Ale, Brooklyn Brewery
Posted by on Thursday, October 21, 2004 in - 2 comments
Now that the Yankees are out of the playoffs, I can admit again to my enjoyment of things New York...more upstate than anything but, as the City and upstate have a mutually vestigal relationship, there is much of the City to be found upstate. One great thing is the New York Times, another is the …
Variety 12-Pack, Smuttynose Brewing, New Hampshire
Posted by on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 in - 1 comment
Now that I have spent more than a year having made up with New Hampshire, I can enjoy Smuttynose as I should. These variety packs are great. They introduce you to a brewery's product for under 20 bucks Canadian, 14 US. Smart marketing. Good labels, too. The two old guys on lawn chairs on the IPA …
Stouts: Freeminer Deep Shaft, Gloucestershire, England
Posted by on Monday, October 18, 2004 in - 1 comment
Who can resist when one reviewer says: " Very possibly the darkest beer in the world." Well...I suppose lots of people who do not like dark or black beer. But for people who understand that Guinness is actually red, this kind of line makes an ale very attractive. • Freeminer Brewery is one of … read more »
Deuchars IPA, Caledonian, Scotland
Posted by on Saturday, October 16, 2004 in - 4 comments
India Pale Ale did not originate in from Scotland, though the Scots brewers were early adopters of most English styles as a matter of survival. This very light ale for an IPA has something of the Scots roast barley bite and a slight smokey yeast there as well as a very nice bright orangy flavour …
Five Foot Square Brewery
Posted by on Monday, August 23, 2004 in - leave a comment
Happy news from Wales where they have the common sense to allow tiny batch breweries to exist - the smallest in the world in a former outhouse has just reopened. Practically impossible in Canada where a whacking excise fee has to be paid unless you fall into section 172(1) of the Excise Act …
