Posts Tagged: Home Brewing
The Home Brew Digest Needs Our Help
Posted by on Sunday, February 10, 2013 in - 2 comments
Update: you can paypal a donation to serverfund@hbd.org. • Long before beer blogs and long before either BeerAdvocate or RateBeer (and their lack of spacing between adjectives and nouns) there was Home Brew Digest. I am on the email list for the digest but I have to admit I have not read one for …
Session 71: What If We All Brewed Our Own?
Posted by on Friday, January 4, 2013 in - 4 comments
For this month's edition of The Session, John of Home Brewing Manual asked questions about a drinker's understanding of brewing. A lot of questions: • Do you brew? If so why? If not, why not? How does that affect your enjoyment of drinking beer? Here are some things to think about if you’re …
Merkel Laughs At Obama's Tiny Home Brewery
Posted by on Monday, September 3, 2012 in - 11 comments
As we have reviewed, Canadian politicians have no need to consider themselves second best when it comes to love of beer... or at least they have to admit their inferiority to beer in the great Canadian cultural pecking ladder. Sure it would help if we could get the whole beer betting thing right …
Ontario: Strong Beer Just Can't Compare To Very Strong Beer
Posted by on Saturday, May 26, 2012 in - 8 comments
In the 1820's, Ontario was in that space between the end of the War of 1812 and the unrest of the late 1830s that led to responsible government. In that quarter century, Ontario or what was then called Upper Canada was a bit of a test kitchen for conservative political forces within the British …
Book Review: Brewing Better Beer, Gordon Strong
Posted by on Monday, May 23, 2011 in - 8 comments
This came in the mail last week and I got a chance this long weekend to look it over. Gordon Strong is a very accomplished home brewer and judge so I was interested in reading what he admits is a very personal take on making your own beer at a high level of skill. • As you know, I am a bad … read more »
Session 41: What About The Homebrewers Anyway?
Posted by on Saturday, July 3, 2010 in - 4 comments
I have a hard time with this month's topic for The Session. Not because I have no experience with home brewing but because I assume everyone involved with beer has had a hand in it. It's like I assume everyone who went to college went to high school first. • That being said, I am a bad brewer. I …
Session 36: How Cask Ale Did Not Change My Life
Posted by on Friday, February 5, 2010 in - leave a comment
Tom Cizauskas of Yours For Good Fermentables is running this month's edition of The Session. He is doing such a good job he has posted somewhere between four and 27 different posts on the subject just on his own site. His question for this month is broad, very open ended: • I'd like to return to …
Allsopp's Arctic Ale And Arctic Homebrew In 1852
Posted by on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 in - 3 comments
There is a bit of beery backroom buzz about plans to make a movie about the Allsopp's Arctic Ale, the beer which accompanied a British navy expedition in the Canadian high Arctic in the mid-eighteenth century. The film maker's website is not up yet but there is a Facebook page which reports …
"...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 …
Back To The Future Of Homebrewing In Brooklyn
Posted by on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 in - 1 comment
Equipment? We don't need no secondary! Beer styles?? We don't need no stinking beer styles!! We have recipes with names like Apple Crisp Ale and Grapefruit Honey Ale. • It's like rereading the first edition of Papazian's The Joy of Homebrewing with all its freaky illustrations and tripped out …
