Posts Tagged: Ingredients and Techniques
Jeffery Amherst's Spuce Beer Circa 1759
Posted by on Sunday, October 5, 2008 in - leave a comment
I am a bad home brewer. I have had supplies in for months to do a couple of all-grain batches but still they stiff wrapped and wrapped again in plastic in a cool, dark place. I did buy another mash pot yesterday but, given my failure to avoid napping and reading this afternoon, no beer again was …
More Yeasty History, More Yeasty Science
Posted by on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 in - leave a comment
It seems like just a couple of weeks ago that I was learning about yeast history through science. Oh. It was just a couple of weeks ago. Now, instead of reaching back just four centuries, science is taking us back through over 400,000 centuries of yeastiness: • Trapped inside a Lebanese weevil …
Two Lager Yeast Strains, Two Homecaves
Posted by on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 in - 11 comments
I am sure I will get this wrong and that Ron will be able to clarify but it appears that two forensic yeast researchers have determined that lager yeast came into existence twice during two separate events: • ...the team discovered that it happened at least twice in two separate locations in …
Can't We Just Admit We Like Corn Sometimes?
Posted by on Thursday, July 24, 2008 in - 12 comments
One of the things I don't get about beer lovers is the seething disrespect of corn - aka maize for some of you. OK, maybe not seething but my comment the other day that I now craved New Glarus Spotted Cow was met with particular surprise by Jeffery Glazer of Wisconsin's Madison Beer Review who …
Why Rye: Rye Pale Ale, Terrapin Beer, Athens, Ga.
Posted by on Saturday, June 28, 2008 in - 3 comments
I've never loved rye beer a whole heck of a lot. I've mentioned it here and here, but there was a brewery in Pictou NS that made a rye ale that was a bit too much like drinking bark: rough and heavy. I don't much like the dark bread version or the hard liquor one either. But I live in hope and …
The Brewery Global Warming Will Destroy
Posted by on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 in - 4 comments
Interesting read about a brewery in Greenland, the Greenland Brewhouse, that is making beer from pure icecap...or rather free-range bergybits: • According to the company’s website, it only uses ice from icebergs, which have already broken off the main inland ice and are floating in the fjords …
More Vital Information On Third-Category Beer
Posted by on Sunday, June 22, 2008 in - 2 comments
I suppose that if I ever tried it or if it had a name that did not sound like something out of Blade Runner I would have less of a facination with that fluid in Japan that is called "third category beer." This article in the The The Daily Yomiuri, however, is full of tidbits that make me wonder …
A Romp Around The Internet As The Red Sox Play
Posted by on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 in - leave a comment
Now that I have got some key relief for my case of internetum tremens, I can refocus on my other mild case of addiction and think about beer again. There's plenty going on this evening as Bartolo Colon starts his Red Sox career against the Royals. A shining model for all of we who are not wee …
Single Cask Brews: Manufacturing Scarcity Or Pure Genius?
Posted by on Monday, May 5, 2008 in - 11 comments
I just about flipped out when I saw this post over at 2 Beer Guys (from the April 16, 2008 issue of The Coloradoan) about the Odell Brewing Co. (with whom I am not familiar but which I am sure is nice and run by fine folk, and all) doing a limited run of a series of single cask beers - each brew …
Pepsi To Supply Indian Brewing Industry With Barley
Posted by on Sunday, May 4, 2008 in - leave a comment
While I proudly hold on to the title of the last place you want to go for your brewing trade information, even my eye caught this bit of news from The Economic Times of India: • “Pepsi enables farmers in Rajasthan to grow two-row barley as "it is the best variety to get good malting quality" …
