Posts Tagged: England and English Styles
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 …
England: Entire Stout, Hopback Brewery, Wiltshire
Posted by on Sunday, March 15, 2009 in - 2 comments
I have had this beer in the stash for a while - at least before it won a CAMRA prize - and privately fretted over it. I was sure I had left it too long for its 4.5%, that when I poured it would be nothing but fouled water and black cottage cheese. How wrong I was. As rich and stiff a foaming head …
Bring Wine To A Restaurant? Why Not Beer To A Pub?
Posted by on Sunday, March 8, 2009 in - 2 comments
I really like this idea from a nightclub at a hotel in Corby, Northamptonshire. Seems like the trade at The Raven isn't what it used to be: • Customers, however, concerned about spending during the recession, are staying at home and the pub is now on the brink of closure. Just a handful of … read more »
England: Twelve Days, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
Posted by on Thursday, February 26, 2009 in - 3 comments
I save the best empties. Usually they are rare ones or just just the best tasting. I think I am saving this lovely design just for how it looks - the partridge in a pear tree, the slender tall pint bottle...or rather half litre. • The ales of Hook Norton rarely shows up in my area. One summer …
