Posts Tagged: Ingredients, Techniques and Packaging
Session 57: Of Vom And Corn, More And Waugh
Posted by on Saturday, November 5, 2011 in - 2 comments
Steve Lamond has stepped up to host this month's edition of The Session and posed the following to us all under the title "Beery Confessions: Guilty Secrets/Guilty Pleasure Beer": • I'd like to know your beery guilty secrets. Did you have a particularly embarrassing first beer (in the same way …
Was This The Earliest Brewing In English Canada?
Posted by on Thursday, November 3, 2011 in - 24 comments
Sneath, Pashley and Rubin all mention the 1600s brewers of New France - Hebert (1617), Ambroise (1646) and Talon (1670). But I just came across this reference in a footnote in the Minutes of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1671-1674, published by Toronto's Champlain Society in 1942, describing payments …
Why Did A Brewer In Kingston In 1815 Want Rye?
Posted by on Sunday, October 23, 2011 in - 13 comments
The ad is from page 4 of the Kingston Gazette, 6 January 1816. You can see at the bottom that it was placed on 15 December 1815. So many questions. What were Messrs Robinson and Gillespie up to? Why is rye placed between barley and hops in the large font while oats sit down there with the peas …
New York: Righteous Ale, Sixpoint Brewery, Brooklyn
Posted by on Friday, October 21, 2011 in - 2 comments
I don't really go much for packaging or even branding when it comes to beer. All that tiny writing on Stone bottles from some PR hack telling me I am not worthy? Yawn. All the millions wasted on design that gets unnecessarily added to the cost of my beer? Spare me. Yet... yet, there is this cube … read more »
Are Pumpkin Ales Really All That Divisive?
Posted by on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 in - 10 comments
Interesting article at the web site... the web presence... of The Atlantic about pumpkin ales. I have thought about these beers for years now and have a few ideas of my own. But I still appreciate these thoughts: • Some beer styles are loved, some are ardently despised, but none is more divisive …
Quebec: Aphrodisiaque, Dieu Du Ciel, Montréal
Posted by on Thursday, October 6, 2011 in - leave a comment
What better to drink for election night here in Ontario than a beer that the LCBO deemed too hot. Not the temperature or the level of alcohol but that label. Yes, the state owned beer monopoly is anti-cleavage. How the Quebecers who made the beer must have laughed. h/t markosaar. Ontario sometimes …
Oh, For A Mug O' Fern Ale To Keep Strangers Away
Posted by on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 in - 9 comments
Ron got me thinking. He was making fun of something written by Horst Dornbusch today, the "man of a million unfounded claims," when I noticed something about pale ale coming into being around 1800 when coke was first used. I knew that was wrong so I started digging around for references to straw …
Session 55: My Favorite Beer Label Is From Gdansk
Posted by on Friday, September 2, 2011 in - 1 comment
I still use the wallet I bought in Gdansk back in 1991. Doesn't fit Canadian dollars properly. I used it to carry the notes worth about 0.03 of a dollar, zloty, that I used to buy zapjakanky, The Warsaw Voice and piwo, piva as well as piv. At least I think that was what it was. I better check at …
So - When Was Lager Invented... Discovered... Evolved?
Posted by on Monday, August 22, 2011 in - 11 comments
This is either just a bit weird or I have completely missed something. Apparently some scientists have been looking to find the yeast strain that started lager... and they think they have found it: • When the team brought the yeast to a lab at the University of Colorado and analyzed its genome …
Belgium: Winterscotch, KleinBrouwerij De Glazen Toren
Posted by on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 in - leave a comment
I have a thing for those Belgian beers that are rolled in paper rather than a stuck on label. Even though this one has a label underneath, too. They pile up like a hoarder's wax paper collection, get shoved amongst books on the shelf, get used as crayon fodder and act as remembrances of great … read more »
