Posts Tagged: Brewery Info
New York: Custom BrewCrafters Reviewed
Posted by on Sunday, September 16, 2007 in - 7 comments
There's a good article Custom BrewCrafters of Honeoye Falls, New York in Rochester's Democrat and Chronical today describing their unique path to business stability: • “Custom BrewCrafters produces less than 3,000 barrels a year — placing the Honeoye Falls beer maker well under the 15,000-barrel …
Paul Goes To Brasserie La Saint Pierre, Alsace, France
Posted by on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 in - leave a comment
The village of Saint-Pierre is a stones throw from Barr. They are on the crease where the mountains meet the plain on the west bank of the Rhine in Alsace. Barr is at an angle while Saint-Pierre is horizontal. Horizontal, but not totally laid back, as an enterprising soul has established a modern …
Oskar Blues Expanding
Posted by on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 in - 2 comments
Interesting news about Oskar Blues, the makers of the ever excellent Old Chub and Dales Pale Ale...not to mention their dandy new brew, the rich double IPA Gordon, a can of which I have around here somewhere: • “Oskar Blues Inc. of Lyons plans to open a second Colorado brewery and double its …
Ontario: Grand River Brewing, Cambridge, RMW
Posted by on Sunday, August 26, 2007 in - 6 comments
If Canada has a hub of microbrewing, a very good argument could be made that it is in the cluster of smaller cities around Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph about an hour west of Toronto. Off the top of my head I can think of seven or eight breweries in the area. Maybe there are more but …
Ontario: Wind And Sail Dark Ale, Barley Days Brewery, Picton
Posted by on Saturday, August 11, 2007 in - 1 comment
So what do I do when back from a beer hunt? Go beer shopping I guess. Barley Days Brewing on the west side of Picton is the resurrection of the former Glenora Springs brewery to the east side of Picton which had an unfortunate track record of unintended lambics noted here and here a year and a … read more »
Ontario: F + M Brewing, Elmira Road, Guelph,
Posted by on Friday, August 10, 2007 in - leave a comment
Neat and Tidy • Not all my travels for beer around Lake Ontario were on the US side. No, I headed straight for what must be the densest centre of brewing in Canada: Guelph, Ontario. Between the 401 and highway 7 on the west side of town you have national brewer Sleeman as well as venerable …
New York: Rohrbach Brewing Company, Rochester
Posted by on Thursday, August 9, 2007 in - 2 comments
One of the other great things about a trip south, other than loading up the stash with brews that are forbidden to Canadians otherwise, is finding a great new brewpub. A few miles to the west of Rochester, on highway 33, we found one more at Rohrbach Brewing. • We sat outside and were treated to …
Brewery Focus: Bell's Best Brown Ale, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Posted by on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 in - leave a comment
The funny thing about brown beer is that beer is basically brown. All beer is brown. OK, almost all beer. Daniels and Parker say at the outset of Chapter 1 of their book Brown Beer: • “While exploring the history of brown ale, we wound up visiting nearly every other style of British ale. From …
Brewery Focus: Bell's Two Hearted Ale, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Posted by on Monday, July 30, 2007 in - leave a comment
I don't know about this Brewery Focus idea. It's getting so unfocused. The other posts for Bells are here and here - but that was a couple of weeks ago. Have I pushed the limits of blogging? Could I get a life and just get on with the review? • The name of the beer along with the picture of the …
Brewery Focus: Bell's Kalamazoo Stout, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 in - leave a comment
Pesky things these Bell's labels. Hard to photograph. A little like taking a photo of a paper grocery bag and making it look dynamic. Don't get me wrong - it is a very fine thing and not utilitarian at all. Pesky, though. • Bell's Kalamazoo is another stout in a range that includes ten or eleven …
