Posts Tagged: Ingredients, Techniques and Packaging
A Perfect Day Makes Me Wonder About Perfect Beer
Posted by on Sunday, July 4, 2010 in - 1 comment
Had a glorious fourth across the border. Bought sauces you can't find over here. Saw an 1812 cannon firing demonstration. Ate a pizza at the best place in the world to have a good pizza at a good price while watching international container ship traffic. And I got a US haircut along with my son …
Two Strangford Lough Brewing Beers... From Somewhere
Posted by on Thursday, July 1, 2010 in - 9 comments
The six pack carrier says "Product of USA crafted from barley gown in St. Patrick's Co." I got three Legbiter Ales and three St. Patrick's Best Ales. Can't find the email that I got from the representative. There's nothing in the box but styrofoam popcorn. The waybill says they're from New Jersey …
Is Every Local Always The Local We Respect?
Posted by on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 in - 9 comments
One of the reasons I am glad I called this a blog about "good" beer way back when is it is up to me and you to decide what is, in fact, good. If you and I disagree, we are still each right for our own purposes. "Good" has so much openendedness it is almost never bad. Few words are so useful in … read more »
Remember To Cut Your Six Pack Plastic Thingies
Posted by on Monday, April 5, 2010 in - 3 comments
I don't get that many six packs and even fewer sixes of cans but I just finished off a six of Dales Pale Ale that I picked up a few weeks ago when I was over to the other side. Apparently, they are actually called six pack rings or six pack yokes if you believe the internet. After I ripped off the …
Earth Hour Seems To Mean Beer Hour To Some
Posted by on Friday, March 26, 2010 in - 3 comments
"Spend an hour guzzling organic booze" says one story from Chicago. Gorkha Brewery in Kathmandu, Nepal is all set to support the Earth Hour, too. Heck even Molson Coors will "power down" for Earth Hour 2010. • I've never really caught the Earth Hour bug as I happily got rid of the second car …
Book Review: Brewing With Wheat By Stan Hieronymus
Posted by on Monday, March 15, 2010 in - 3 comments
I got my review copy of Stan's new book in the mail today. Stan is so clever he already has the book's own website up. I have a disclaimer. I like Stan. Sometimes we send giggly emails to each other. Disclosure over. • Stan researched the book on his family's global trip that passed through my …
The Hobby Of Not Drinking Everything
Posted by on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 in - 8 comments
Good article in the Los Angeles Times today by Evan George on the hobby of the beer stash. The hero of the story is Mr. Arrieta: • To grab a beer, Israel Arrieta doesn't just stroll to the fridge; he has to walk out his back door to the side of the house, where he pries a chicken-wire screen off …
Craft Brewers Break Ranks And Use Rice
Posted by on Monday, February 22, 2010 in - 12 comments
One of the silliest things I have ever come across in all these years of yapping about good beer was last year's infomercial made by US craft brewers titled "I am a Craft Brewer." It included many mutual back pats and self-pinned blue ribbon statements including the pledges that they do not put …
I Have Never Really Bothered With The Pour
Posted by on Thursday, February 11, 2010 in - 6 comments
There are many things that can get attached to an idea or experience. I presume the more precious or particular the key advice, the more likely you are dealing with a barnacle that needs scraping off the hull of your given ship of life.. or a consultant hunting for someone to bill. Like this … read more »
Session 36: How Cask Ale Did Not Change My Life
Posted by on Friday, February 5, 2010 in - leave a comment
Tom Cizauskas of Yours For Good Fermentables is running this month's edition of The Session. He is doing such a good job he has posted somewhere between four and 27 different posts on the subject just on his own site. His question for this month is broad, very open ended: • I'd like to return to …
