Posts Tagged: Ingredients, Techniques and Packaging
Getting Into The Craft Brew Business Shouldn't Be Hard
Posted by on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 in - 5 comments
You know I like Andy Crouch. I like Andy. He and I agree on so many things that I can't believe it. Then he goes and writes this and I get all pffttwzzatchamacallit!!! • With all of this said, many great breweries, including Dogfish Head, started on an extremely small scale and there are many …
I Think This Is Best Watched With The Sound Off...
Posted by on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 in - 9 comments
Watch quietly first. Is this profound or crass? I mean do we really care about the speed, the product or the profit margin? What is neat is seeing that many beer fill in a minute. Could it be run on gravity dispense? Could it be set to serve the perfect imperial stout or hefeweizen? Could glass be …
Prepare We For Increased Craft Beer Costs?
Posted by on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 in - 5 comments
Carlsberg announced "we will be impacted by rising input costs and will therefore have to increase sales prices" today. There, that ought to cheer you up. Mr. B. noted - with a rather ominous tone - a tale of horseplay and even collusion about this sort of thing just the other day but in this …
Session 45: Montreal's Buckwheat Beer Coup De Grisou
Posted by on Saturday, November 6, 2010 in - 4 comments
Buckwheat. Probably isn't even real wheat. I probably am breaking the rules for this month's edition of the Session. But no, it's OK... if my fellow Canucks, the hosts at BeerTaster.ca are to be trusted: • We have the honour of hosting the 45th session which allows us to choose the topic we will …
Colorado: Samuri Rice Ale, Great Divide, Denver
Posted by on Thursday, November 4, 2010 in - 2 comments
Is this the most important beer I have had in recent years? I don't know. After the embarrassing robotic declarations by American's trendier craft brewers that they will "not... use... rice... not... use... corn..." all I want are Belgian monks to bring out a range of pure alt grain beers that … read more »
It's Really More About Murder Than Pagans, Isn't It?
Posted by on Monday, November 1, 2010 in - 11 comments
It's a slow Monday night for beer news. Blame the World Series meeting Monday Night Football taking on the night before US mid-term elections. Nothing of great beery import out there... so what about that witchy label... no, not that one to the right, the other one. • Frankly, I really don't … read more »
Revisited: Do We Love The Beer Or Vagabond Brewers?
Posted by on Thursday, October 28, 2010 in - 13 comments
A few years ago now, in February 2007, I asked whether we should love the beer or the brewer. A post by the excellent Joe Stange last week led me to comment and majestic Stan Stan the Hieronymus Man to post... which made Joe post again. And of course, I commented. The issue? Vagabond brewers. Here …
Delaware: Theobroma, Dogfish Head, Milton
Posted by on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 in - 1 comment
Mark Dredge has a piece in this morning's Guardian out of the UK entitled "The Beer of Yesteryear" which scans the range of recent brewing efforts to recreate beers older than, say, 500 years ago. These are beers which use ingredients available to former culture including Theorbrama by Dogfish …
Are These $170 A Pound Hops Worth Growing Or Not?
Posted by on Monday, October 18, 2010 in - 7 comments
Who would have thought that the processes of mass agricultural production actually lead to a cheaper ingredient? Not me. But what do I know? And, well, is that the issue? Given the relatively small percentage hops represent in a craft brewer's overall costs, isn't it worth the difference to eek … read more »
Book Review: Yeast, C. White and J. Zainasheff
Posted by on Monday, October 11, 2010 in - 2 comments
This came in the mail last week and I have to tell you - there are a lot of really big words in there. It even comes with its own warning in the Introduction: • This is not a book for the highly successful regional or larger brewer who already has multiple labs and a doctorate in microbiology …
