Posts Tagged: Ingredients and Techniques
CAMWA: The Campaign For Watery Ale
Posted by on Thursday, April 26, 2007 in - 6 comments
Two Nations Joined By Water • Why can't we admit it? We are all sitting around drinking flavoured water. We craft beer lovers like to pretend it is like wine, an art based on the manipulation fruit juice - but it ain't so. In a very real sense, fine beer is a far more crafted product than fine …
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 - 3 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 - 6 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 - 3 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.”
