Posts Tagged: England
The British Breakfast Bar Makes Sense To Me
Posted by on Thursday, March 11, 2010 in - 7 comments
I hadn't realized that alcohol sales were actually illegal here in Ontario before 11 am until I did a bit of a hospitality training session last year. We are barred from beer and breakfast. I just hadn't been out looking for a mid-moring drink, I guess. Things are different elsewhere. Not only is …
UK Labour Adds Two Dimensional Pub Minister
Posted by on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 in - leave a comment
Wow. A Pub Minister for Britain! Great! Has he got a Ministry staffed with people who do work? No... but he has a ministerial task force, drawing on five Whitehall departments. Is he actually given the time and resources to make change? Well, there is that thing coming up... that election. The …
This Monday's Bullet Points Of Beery Interest
Posted by on Monday, March 8, 2010 in - 2 comments
Ah, bullet points. When you haven't got enough for a post there's always enough for bullet points. They are the putting green to a round of 18. The hot dog to the BBQ. But enough of my lazy blogger admissions and let's see what is going on out there: • Craft beer in the US had another good year …
Where Are We With The Price Of Inputs In Early 2010?
Posted by on Thursday, January 28, 2010 in - 1 comment
Inputs. Or as the Teutonics might say "ingapüts". It's the short form for the costs of things that go into your beer. When the price of hops and malt went north in October 2007, we started reminding ourselves that when we are told costs have gone up we better check whether prices in fact have gone …
FTW: My Lamb's Wool Express Ale Mulling Experiment
Posted by on Thursday, January 14, 2010 in - 6 comments
I finally got around to making that Lamb's Wool, an 18th century form of English mulled beer that I wanted to try to make over Christmas. But I never found the time to core the apples, bake the apples, heat the beer, baste the apples and sit down to a meal of hot backed apples and mulled beer …
Don't Forget To Heat Your Beer For Christmas
Posted by on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 in - leave a comment
The Washington Post introduced a piece on Christmas ales today with a reminder that they harken back to the pre-Puritan days of England, days of steaming bowls of hot spiced ale and shorter life spans: • ... originally, the word -- from the Middle English greeting "waes haeil," or "be hearty" …
England: Coffee Porter, Meantime, London
Posted by on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 in - 2 comments
I must have picked this up at Finger Lake Beverage last February. Lovely new web site. $3.50 USD with as cheery a small bottle as ever there was. Well, to be fair, the 375 ml cork top from Girardin is pretty damn fine but this is swell as well. • Gorgeous. Dark mahogany beer under a tan cream …
"...You Have To Make Sure It Is Of A Demonstrable Quality...'
Posted by on Monday, October 26, 2009 in - 5 comments
What an odd statement. Given that the use of the word "quality" is in itself merely a promise of characteristic and not necessarily a good one, it looks like the sort of thing that one might expect from a PR firm working with faceless MegaCo. But it seems to be the position of CAMRA... if this …
Doctor Who On Life In The Pub Then And Now
Posted by on Sunday, October 4, 2009 in - 7 comments
Being a modernly moderate drinker with a writing problem is not my only odd habit you know. While being a beer nerd is all very well and good, among other things I have this little itsy-bitsy thing about 1960s and 70s TV sci-fi shows. I have all the Space: 1999 episodes on DVD as well as the …
It Takes An Empire to Make A Measurement Of Beer
Posted by on Monday, September 28, 2009 in - leave a comment
As I thought back about a year ago, I am happy enough to see that the government in the UK is allowing a new 2/3s pint - if only because more choice is better, right? But it is a little odd that the matter of a reasonable pour of a walloping brew is a matter for government intervention. For …
