Posts Tagged: Ingredients, Techniques and Packaging
Part Of The Cost Of Beer
Posted by on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 in - 5 comments
Here is an interesting bit of fact-based reality in an article on potential increases which may hit the beer ingredient market: • “Barley prices have steadily inched up each month, ending 2006 averaging $3.19 per bushel in December -- an increase of about 24 percent from December's average price …
Wet Hop Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, October 4, 2006 in - 4 comments
I planted some hops the year before I moved here with the plan of making a home-brew filled up with fresh-picked green hops. I never made it and I really didn't think it up at all but it sure has taken off as a style in the last few years: • “First there was Beaujolais nouveau. Now comes beer …
Another Case Of Anti-Beer Activism?
Posted by on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 in - 7 comments
Is this part of a trend? • “About 4 percent of America's hops have gone up in flames. Most of America's hops are grown in the Yakima Valley in Washington state, where a 40,000-foot warehouse storing hops burned down yesterday...The cause of the fire is not known. Nor is the effect on beer and …
Iced Beer Hits UK
Posted by on Saturday, June 24, 2006 in - 12 comments
This is just getting silly. Who needs ice crystals in their beer? • “North American brewer Molson Coors has launched the coldest draught beer in the world which is designed to be served at minus 2.5 degrees with a layer of slushy ice crystals underneath the foamy head. Coors Sub Zero was …
Is Twisted Thistle An IPA?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 in - 28 comments
I picked up this beer while on the road and I was immediately in a fix, dealing with cultural confusion. As a son of Scots I know that Belhaven is a fine and reputable brewer of Scots ales bought last year by Greene King...yet I know IPA is not a Scots style. I have discussed this before in …
Distilling Beer
Posted by on Sunday, April 2, 2006 in - 4 comments
Knut of Norway sent me an interesting email a few days ago: • “When I was in Bavaria last year, I bought a bottle of Bierlikör at the brewery tap at Weienstephan. I have seen on the web site of other German breweries that they have similar liquors, and I wonder what kind of drink this really is …
Old Chub, Oskar Blues Brewery, Lyons, Colorado, USA
Posted by on Friday, March 3, 2006 in - 8 comments
Canned Beer Goodness • We get great emails around here and this week I had one of the most interesting exchanges with Marty Jones, • Lead Singer of the Oskar Blues Brewery in Lyons, Colorado. Marty sent me some information about their two beers in cans and how they were bringing their ales to …
Ontario: Stratford Brewing Company, Stratford, Perth County
Posted by on Sunday, January 8, 2006 in - 4 comments
This weekend I made a discovery while looking for things to do while visiting family...OK, my in-laws. Right there in little Stratford Ontario was the Stratford Brewing Company. At the south end of town in a small industrial park area at the back of a building there it was...a van, a man and a set …
Multi-tasking Vices
Posted by on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 in - leave a comment
Aren't scientists wonderful! • “Each beer will have a 6.3 percent alcohol reading and will contain three milligrams of nicotine.”
Canned Beer Taste
Posted by on Monday, August 29, 2005 in - 6 comments
I received a heads up from The Wall Street Journal's designated reader of A Good Beer Blog, Carl, that the paper has posted an interesting article on US craft brewers using cans rather than or in addition to bottles. A taste test ensued and I will spoil the ending for you: • “Details are in the …
