Posts Tagged: Ingredients and Techniques
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 …
Wired's Good Summary Of Price Inputs Got Me Thinking
Posted by on Sunday, May 11, 2008 in - 2 comments
It's just a short article in Wired but it provides a good summary of where we are with the hop and barley price jumps and gets me thinking about that other elephant in the room - value: • “"My jaw hit the floor when I saw the price," Ansari says. And next year, he'll have to reformulate his … read more »
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" …
Check Your Kilt For Monkeys As Brewers Plant Hops
Posted by on Thursday, April 17, 2008 in - 1 comment
Funny how two months ago the idea that craft brewers might get off the supply grid and try planting a few hops - you know, to avoid being soaked by the tightened traditional supply and other rising cost inputs like transportation - was the cause of what might be called confusion. Now, according to …
Again With The Beer Input Grid: Resistence Is Not Futile
Posted by on Sunday, February 24, 2008 in - 4 comments
There has been some odd resistance to my humble proposal that craft brewers might consider taking steps to control their owns means of cost input production in the face of sharp input inflation which, the more I think about it, the more it strikes me as fundamentally anti-capitalistic. So, in that …
My Deep And Witty Analysis Of The Big Hop Giveaway!
Posted by on Saturday, February 16, 2008 in - 2 comments
My computer ate it. It was a virtual unified theory of beer blogging, an apology draped in an accusation resting on a question with its feet up on satisfaction. Brilliant. Gone. In sum: I didn't like their variety packs, the special glass, Utopia, the '90's triple bock or their white-like thing …
More Vital Information On Third-Category Beer
Posted by on Monday, January 21, 2008 in - leave a comment
I suppose 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 what …
Testing Out A Beer Tasting and Hop Appreciation Kit
Posted by on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 in - 8 comments
“Please note: the maker of the kit has joined in the conversation and clarified that there is more provided with the purchased package than the sample provided. With that extra material in the purchase this is more that a testing kit which could very well make it a far better value than these …
When Is Beer Organic?
Posted by on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 in - 7 comments
Gary, under a file with the special code name "Special report from correspondent Gary Rith", gave me the heads up about a flap over at least one beer claiming to be "organic": • “I tried Green Valley Brewery's Organic Wild Hops beer and reviewed it here a few months ago. I had seen it advertised …
